Which of the following describes most of South America in the second half of the nineteenth century?
a. Regional diversities had to be overcome to create strong centralized governments.
b. Conservatives and liberals clashed for power.
c. Many nations, like Mexico faced pressures from external powers such as the United States.
d. An ovverreliance on exports of raw materials and imports of industrial goods and technologies, hindered the development of integrated national economies.
e. All of the answers are correct.
Question 2
After the Civil War, agriculture
a. continued to be largely subsistence farming on small holdings.
b. declined due to the transformation of former slaves into industrial wage laborers.
c. became increasingly irrelevant.
d. entered a long depression.
e. became more commercialized.
A reindeer sled, Arkhangelsk, Russia. Late nineteenth-century photochrom.
Milking reindeer in the 19th century
lion cubs in the wild, South Africa
North America
Distribution of zebra and quagga mussels in North America in 2014