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| The development of national postal services in the nineteenth century reveals these things | an increased role for government, the growth of the rail network,an expansion of public education, the existence of large overseas "emigre" communities |
| The latter 19th century can be considered the "Age of the Middle Class" mainly because | the middle class was large and wealthy enough to set tastes and values for society |
| The term "informal empire" best describes the situation in | China |
| These were invented during the Second Industrial Revolution | synthetic dyes, dynamite, the Bessemer process of steel production, the safety elevator |
| The second industrial revolution occured | 1850-1914 |
| This was invented in 1785 by Edmund Cartwright and was one of the most important inventions of the Early Industrial Revolution ( no second industrial revolution) | the power loom |
| The literary works of Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, and Gustave Flaubert are all considered to be part of what movement of literature? | Realism |
| A movement in the 19th century that focused on depicting the relatively ordinary lives of the middle and working classes without relying on traditional embellishments such as the romanticization of their subject | Realism |
| The Berlin Conference of 1885 was called to address the status of | the Congo |
| The Berlin Conference of 1885 was initially called to deal with the status of the Congo because | it was a territory that King Leopold II of Belgium was seeking to control for economic exploitation through the formation of what would eventually be known as the Congo Free State |
| This conference established the rules that European states needed to follow to show their control over the various parts of Africa | The Berlin Conference of 1885 |
| The Thomas Cook company | introduced package tours to Britain's middle class |
