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Guided Reading Activity 20-1
The Growth of Industrial Prosperity
DIRECTIONS: Answer the following questions as you read the section.
1. What commodities were a part of the Second Industrial Revolution?
2. Name the first major change in industry between 1870 and 1914.
3. Electricity could be converted into what other forms of energy?
4. Why could Europeans afford to buy more consumer products?
5. Which part of Europe remained largely agricultural and little industrialized?
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6. What did industrial workers do to improve their working and living conditions?
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7. Who wrote The Communist Manifesto?
8. According to Karl Marx, what two groups of society would grow more and more hostile
9. What did the German Social Democratic Party become in 1912?
10. What did pure Marxists believe about capitalism?
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toward each other?