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Zorluk: ZorDevelopment of Industrial Capitalism and Transnational Businesses

Read the passage below and answer the following question.

"The concession granted by the Belgian Government to the Huileries du Congo Belge [a subsidiary of the British firm Lever Brothers] covers an area of some 1,800,000 acres of land... containing natural palm forests of immense value. The concessionaire company has the exclusive right to gather the fruit of the oil palm and to establish mills for the extraction of palm oil. The development of this enterprise is not merely a private commercial triumph, but a vital link in supplying the home industries of Great Britain with the essential raw materials required for the manufacturing of soaps and lubricants, while introducing modern industrial discipline to the native population of the Congo Basin."
—Report on the Economic Conditions in the Belgian Congo, British Consular Service, 1913

Which of the following global economic developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is best illustrated by the activities described in the passage?

  1. A
    The complete displacement of private corporate operations by direct European state administration in colonized territories.
  2. B
    The persistence of early modern mercantilist economic policies centered on the state-controlled accumulation of precious metals.
  3. The expansion of transnational businesses that leveraged imperial political influence to secure resources for industrial economies.Cevap
  4. D
    The primary reliance on coal-powered steam transportation to distribute agricultural goods within the African interior.

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The expansion of transnational businesses that leveraged imperial political influence to secure resources for industrial economies.
The correct answer is correct because the partnership between Lever Brothers (a British firm) and the Belgian colonial administration in the Congo illustrates how transnational corporations operated across imperial borders to extract resources (palm oil) needed for domestic manufacturing (soap and lubricants) in industrial countries.

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1
Analyze the stimulus to identify the key actors and their relationships.
The stimulus describes Lever Brothers, a British corporation, obtaining a concession from the Belgian colonial government in the Congo to harvest palm oil for British industries.
Identifying the actors and their roles helps determine the economic structure being described.
2
Relate the identified relationships to global economic trends of the period.
Lever Brothers represents a transnational corporation, and its reliance on the Belgian colonial government demonstrates how businesses operated across borders with the support of imperial powers to fuel industrial production.
Connecting the details of the passage to broader historical processes allows for testing the target learning objective regarding industrial capitalism and transnational businesses.
3
Evaluate the options to select the development that best matches these processes.
The option highlighting transnational businesses leveraging imperial influence to secure resources matches the evidence of a British company getting colonial concessions in the Congo for industrial raw materials.
Selecting the option that matches both the stimulus context and the historical process ensures the correct answer is found.

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Transnational businesses and industrial capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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