Ch 17

From 1701 to 1763, what was at stake in the wars between Great Britain and France?

The position as Europe's leading maritime power, with the ability to claim profits from Europe's overseas expansion

The treaty that ended the seven year's war in Europe and the colonies in 1763 and ratified British victory on all colonial front was the

Treaty of paris

Arthur Young, an eighteenth-century agricultural experimentalist, advocated

large-scale enclosure as a necessary means to achieve progress.

What was the result of the war of Austrian succession

An inconclusive standoff that set the stage for further warfare

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

He critiqued accepted farming methods and developed better methods through empirical research.

Why did European slave traders in Africa adopt the "shore method" of trading in the eighteenth century

It permitted Europeans to move easily along the coast, obtaining slaves at various slave markets and then departing quickly for the americas

In the eighteenth century, the west's largest and richest city

London

Which of the following describes the enclosure movement of the eighteenth century

The land was divided into plots bounded by fences to farm more effectively

The proletarianization of peasants in the eighteenth century forced them to

become landless rural wage earners

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

the size and strength of British naval power.

English Navigation Acts mandated that all the English imports and exports be transported on English ships, and they also

gave British merchants a virtual monopoly on trade with British colonies

Which of the following characterizes the regions to which slaves were carried from Africa to the americas

About 90 percent of slaves were transported to Brazil or the Caribbean, with only 3 percent brought to North America.