The Suez Canal is a man-made waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean via the Red Sea. It enables a more direct route for shipping between Europe and Asia, effectively allowing for passage from the North Atlantic to the Indian Ocean without having to circumnavigate the African continent.
In general, no, the revolution in agriculture was no necessary to the Industrial Revolution since the Industrial Revolution relied on things like machines and steel.
Due to the fact that the first and third don't make sense, I think the answer should be the second.
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D - People who believed that the appropriate role of the government was to address the major social problems of the day
This is because the Progressives wanted better working conditions as well and wanted the government to regulate large monopolies.
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