What Country Pursued a Policy of "Splendid Isolation" for Most

question 69

Multiple Choice

What country pursued a policy of "splendid isolation" for most of the nineteenth century?

• A)United States
• B)Great Britain
• C)Russia
• D)France
• E)Japan

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Definitions:

Efficient Markets

Financial markets where prices fully reflect all available information.

Marginalism

The process of analyzing the additional or incremental costs or benefits arising from a choice or decision.

Industrial Revolution

The period in England during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in which new manufacturing technologies and improved transportation gave rise to the modern factory system and a massive movement of the population from the countryside to the cities.

Great Migration

The movement of over six million African Americans from the rural Southern United States to urban areas in the North and West from about 1916 to 1970, seeking better job opportunities and living conditions.