Answer:
B. Raw materials
Explanation:
During the Nineteenth-century colonization, European nations undergone the scientific revolution. It enable them to mass produce a certain goods like never before at a much faster rate.
This process require a lot of raw materials.
In order to seek cheap source of these materials, the European countries invested in journey to seek for new lands that potentially possess abundance of natural resources. This was the reason why they started colonizing weaker countries.
Because the trade with China was an isolationist nation which saw Western ideas as problematic for the current state of their nation, because Western nations did not possess anything of value to exchange, they began to look for different methods, among them the sale of drugs and addictives to the population. By 1839, opium stocked by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France had reached the isolated peasants and the workers spent 2/3 of their profits to maintain their addiction.
Before this, the Chinese emperor banned opium and expelled the British merchants, who upon arriving in London complained to the British government, which decided to attack China with its powerful fleet to force it to buy opium cultivated in British India.
The correct answer is B. It significantly reduced the cost of producing steel, making the material more available for building machinery, railroads and skyscrapers.
The Bessemer process was named after its English inventor Henry Bessemer, who invented it in 1856. Its many advantages over the older processes of steel fabrication included:
- Faster fabrication: to convert five tons of iron into steel usually took a full day whereas it took 10 to 20 minutes.
- Better Steel quality: oxidation is used to remove impurities from the steel which in turn is much stronger.
Answer:
The second one
Explanation:
Because the climate and soil of the South were suitable for the cultivation of commercial (plantation) crops such as tobacco, rice, and indigo, slavery developed in the southern colonies on a much larger scale than in the northern colonies; the latter's labor needs were met primarily through the use of European Government.
