Economics 515
AU12 Midterm 3 Review
The exam will have 10, 10-point questions on it from the questions below.
1. Explain briefly how guns and steel aided in Europeans’ attempts to conquer the native population of Africa and the Americas. How did germs work in favor of European conquest against the Incas? How did germs work against the Europeans in their imperialist efforts in Africa?
2. Describe the attempt of Europeans to colonize Africa depicted in Guns, Germs, and Steel. Specifically, how successful were they in South Africa? What happened when they encountered the Khoisan tribes? How about the Zulu? Were they able to successfully settle the interior? Why or why not?
3. List 3 positive impacts on standards
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8. What was the Zollverein? List 2 other similar arrangements in the Free-Trade Era of Europe. Who were the Junkers? How and why did they successful lobby for protectionist tariffs? Who agitated the passage of the Meline tariff of 1892 and why?
9. Describe important developments in communications and transportation during the Transition Period. Talk about how the backward linkages and forward linkages from these innovations increased growth.
10. Provide three detailed examples of how government interventions promoted economic development during Transition period, 1830-1870.
11. In what two aspects was the 2nd Industrial Revolution different than the 1st Industrial Revolution? List 3 inventions of the 2nd Industrial Revolution. What was the American System of Manufacturing? List 2 industries in which this system was utilized by the Second Industrial Revolution.
12. Discuss the increase in steel production during the Second Industrial Revolution. Specifically, what technological improvements led to greater mass production? Quantify this increase. List 2 forward linkages from the steel industry.
13. Discuss how Great Britain's macroeconomic growth lagged that of other countries since the 2nd Industrial Revolution. Which countries had higher growth rates and due to innovations in which industries? Compare the growth of British per capita income to that of other nations.
14. In what ways were the German and
Even with the pollution becoming a major problem during the second Industrial Revolution because of all the manufacturing plants coming into the city, this era laid the foundation for some of the famous and most popular inventions of today’s time. But still during the era of innovations, many inventions would not have been made possible without the innovation of steel and the Bessemer process. This would be the reason steel had the most profound impact about the
In terms of the economy, industrialization and manufacturing drove the economy forward, catalyzing change and developments that would contribute to the economy. Advancements in metallurgy produced an increased demand for
Advancements in new technology clearly promoted the industrial growth of the United States. The new technologies allowed business owners to reduce labor in the movement of materials from one point to the other. This occurred by using the new technology of railroads and machinery. Business owners
The last aspect is political, the political aspect of the politics reflected to the business and not to the poor urban people or to the working class. The Federal, State, and local politicians gave land grants and government contracts to their friends and supporters for public works (Schultz, 2013). The political corruption was a big problem during the Industrialization because businessmen took their agendas to the politicians whom the businessmen exchanged for cash or stock to obtain a land grant, but with the exchanges that turned into a public scandal which became The Credit Mobilier Scandal (Schultz, 2013). The political aspect in the Industrialization era was a lot of scandal’s and a lot of bribing people of their money.
New technologies improved agricultural and industrial productivity. Growing cities provided markets and workers for industrial businesses. Products were allowed to reach distant markets because of improved railroad
Directions: The following question is based on the documents included in this exercise. This question is designed to test your ability to work with and understand historical documents. Create a draft of your essay by answering each topic in red and answering your own DIY DBQ in an essay format. The parameters of the future DBQ that will be written for your DIY DBQ are below:
3) Explain the developments in Europe and Africa that led up to Columbia’s voyage to America.
Describe the basic industries of America’s Industrial Revolution and explain what made the men who controlled them so successful. Select one industry to argue your point (such as the petroleum industry). Were the men who dominated this industry “robber barons,” as some suggested, or simply good businessmen
2. Opening of new agricultural lands (West) - more and more land offered to people, land needed to be develop. Farmer could maintain more land than before because of
The technological progress had made changes in several areas starting to produce new type of machinery, meantime developing new methods of producing textile, source of energy, even to transmit messages on a long distances.
The second industrial revolution was the change of our world even though many people moved from rural homes into cities because they can't get accepted in jobs and it started in the 1870-1944 after the civil war because “ during this time, many advances in technology and factories made it easier and quicker for farmers and manufactures to produce more goods and products to be sold.”
Q1: What was the industrial revolution? When did it occur? How did industrialisation lead to the creation of the design profession? How was industrial manufacturing different from the traditional way of making a product and what role did the designer play in creating new products?
The first country that I wanted to discuss was the United Kingdom. From my research, I have conducted that although there are many factors that have been said that aided the United Kingdom with the success of their country 's economic development, one theory that I believe is most accurate is the effect of the Industrial Revolution. This theory consisted of a cluster of technological innovations that drove down costs of production and brought about rapid industrialization. As mentioned in the textbook, the Industrial Revolution consisted of a cluster of technological innovations that drove down costs of production and brought about rapid industrialization within the country. Some individual’s theory is that the availability of coal mattered while others argue that the country was relatively organized. Another theory is that others suggest that development happened here due to attitudes and culture whether in the populace at large
During the 1820’s the southern area of Africa went through a drastic population growth and radical social, political changes, economic and ecological changes. This period was characterised as a period of migration, battles, food deprivation, and suffering for most of the kingdoms of Southern Africa . This period of wars and migration in Africa become known as Mfecane. There are many schools of thought as to why these migrations and wars took place. These schools of thought, are based on specific causes for the Mfecane. The causes are trade, environmental changes, political changes and population growth. This essay will, however, argue that there is no unipolar explanation for the
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