The material prosperity evident in image 1 was in part attributable to which of the following?

Question: 97

7. To which of the following is the material prosperity evident in Image 1 partially attributable?

• A. The increasing standard of living of German industrial workers
• B. The social welfare policies instituted by governments of the Germanic states
• C. The adoption by the Frankfurt Parliament of a liberal constitution for Germany
• D. The restoration of political stability in the aftermath of the Congress of Vienna

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

(D)
(A) is wrong because, as industrialization began in Germany, many skilled workers lost their positions as a result of mechanization and because the illustration depicts a middle-class family.
(B) is wrong because states did not implement social-welfare policies until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
(C) is wrong because in the years 1848 to 1849 the deputies in the Frankfurt Parliament failed to create a constitution for a united Germany.
(D) is CORRECT because the quarter century of revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in central Europe gave economic development a setback, which was only reversed by the return of stability after the Congress of Vienna.