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Anvil is a tool used by blacksmiths, and it is the surface on which the object is placed which is worked on with a hammer- stroked with a hammer.
von Bülow meant (in 1899) that Germany will either have to colonize others ( be the hammer) or it would have to risk being colonized itself (being the anvil), hence showing the need for Germany to participate in colonization.
<span>It lowered interest rates, which encouraged manufacturing and construction.</span>
True , because it stated that slavery was often referred and is recognized as the immediate cause of the civil war.