Ap ch 17 test review

Betw. 1650-1790 a component of the global econ. was established when European nations developed

The Atlantic economy

Which of these people wrote optimistically about the agricultural progress made from enclosure?

Arthur Young

Movement to fence in fields to farm more effectively at the expense of poor peasants was called

Enclosure

Who provided the labor force for Britain's initial colonization of Australia?

Convicted prisoners

People of Spanish ancestry born in the Americas were referred to as...

Creoles

Which factor contributed most to population growth after 1700 in Europe?

Decrease in death rates

What was the status of Jews in European colonies in the 18th century?

Faced discrimination but were white so could not be enslaved

T/F A. Smith approved of the guild system because guilds helped keep prices low for consumers.

False

Britain's great rival for influence in India in the eighteenth century was...

France

Mercantilist finance ministers were concerned with the countries' accumulation of

Gold

What was the result of the War of the Austrian Succession?

Inconclusive standoff that set the stage for further warfare

In the second half of the eighteenth century, the West's largest and richest city was

London

A series of English laws that controlled the import of goods to Britain and British colonies

Navigation Acts

Merchant loaned materials to rural workers, who processed them & returned the finished products

Putting-out system

What was Jethro Tull's contribution to English agriculture in the eighteenth century?

Seed drill and new empirical research of farming techniques

Adam Smith wanted of a laissez-faire role for the gov't when it came to the economy, meaning...

The gov't should stay away from regulating the economy

Christianity in colonial societies in the Americas...

Took on distinctive characteristics in the NW as it spread

Olaudah Equiano argued that rather than enslave Africans, England should...

Trade with Africans

The treaty that ended the Seven Years' War in Europe and the colonies in 1763 was the...

Treaty of Paris

T/F Spanish colonial elites grew to resent regulations & taxes imposed by colonial gov'ts

True

Which of the following characterizes the condition of 18th-century peasants in W Europe ?

Were generally free from serfdom and owned land

The proletarianization of peasants in the eighteenth century forced them to initially

become landless rural wage earners

Population growth in Europe in the eighteenth century occurred...

in all regions

Holland's leadership in farming methodology can be attributed to the

necessity to provide for a densely populated country

In the open-field system, the tradition of gleaning allowed...

poor women to pick up leftover grain after harvest

In the eighteenth century, the biggest increase in British foreign trade was with

the British colonial empire

The British won the American component of the Seven Years' War owing to...

the size and strength of British naval power