Chapter 19 Quiz
a broad based campaign to abolish slavery began in britain after
1775
in 1790 blacks made up what percent
20%
At the end of the seventeenth century, at least __________ percent of western Europeans were involved in agriculture. A) 80 B) 70 C) 60 D) 50 E) 90
A) 80
Before 1700, the total European population A) followed an irregular cycle of slow growth. B) always grew too fast. C) grew steadily and moderately. D) followed a cyclical pattern of steady decline. E) had been constant for centuries.
A) followed an irregular cycle of slow growth
The most prevalent system of land usage in Europe from the mid-seventeenth century onward was known as the A) estate system. B) tenant system. C) fallow-rotational system. D) crop rotation. E) two-field system.
D) crop rotation
By 1800, __________ had the largest population in Europe. A) Spain B) Italy C) France D) England E) Russia
E) Russia
typical labor control in spanish america was
debt peonage-a form of serfdom
what is considered one of the greatest books of all time?
wealth of nations by adam smith
Jethro Tull's contributions to English agriculture were the product of A) good luck. B) empirical research. C) deductive reasoning. D) speculative reasoning. E) university study.
B) empirical research.
All of the following were shortcomings of the putting-out system from the capitalists' point of view except A) inability to enforce quotas. B) rigid production techniques. C) poor quality control. D) disputes with workers over weights of materials delivered. E) difficulty making workers produce steadily.
B) rigid production techniques.
The leadership of the Dutch people in farming can be attributed primarily to A) the exceptional fertility of their lands. B) the necessity to provide for a large densely populated country. C) the leadership of the Dutch scientific community. D) their strong nobility. E) their Calvinism.
B) the necessity to provide for a large densely populated country.
"Gleaning" of grain refers to A) separation of the wheat from the chaff. B) selection of seed grain. C) grinding of the grain into flour. D) collection of single grains that fall to the ground during the harvest. E) sowing of the grain.
D) collection of single grains that fall to the ground during the harvest.
For cottage workers, "holy Monday" was A) payday. B) the delivery day for raw materials. C) a day spent in church. D) the due date for the previous week's work. E) a day of relaxation.
E) a day of relaxation.
The increase in fertilizer supplies during the agricultural revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was due in part to A) the import of guano from Pacific islands. B) systematic collection and sale of human waste. C) increased fruit consumption in European diets. D) discovery of the effectiveness of rotten fish as fertilizer. E) increased numbers of livestock, which provided more manure.
E) increased numbers of livestock, which provided more manure
why did the british win the american component of 7 years war?
because they diverted men and money from europe to the american theater
plantations in virginia in 1730 were worked entirely by
black slaves
who won the american component of 7 years war?
british
after 1700 spain recovered from the 17th century crisis and held onto her ______empire
colonial
what was the 7 years war? (french and indian)
colonial conflict between england and france
european ancestry born in america were
creoles
Cornelius Vermuyden directed large drainage projects in A) Germany. B) Sweden. C) France. D) Spain. E) England.
e) england
who was olaudah equiano?
he was a freed slave from nigeria who settled in london
what are mestizos?
offspring of spanish men and indian women
adam smith said government should limit itself to
provide a defense against foreign invasion maintain civil order with police protection sponser certain indespensable public works provide a court system
The Navigation Acts were a form of economic warfare that initially targeted the A) Dutch. B) French. C) Spanish. D) American colonists. E) Swedes.
A) Dutch
Which of these events happened first? A) Passage of British Navigation Acts B) War of the Spanish Succession C) British slave trade abolished D) Seven Years' War E) Publication of Wealth of Nations
A) Passage of British Navigation Acts
The term spinster referred to A) a widowed or unmarried woman who spun cloth for a living. B) the puttingout merchant. C) the wife of a weaver. D) a female member of a textile guild. E) a female textile factory operative.
A) a widowed or unmarried woman who spun cloth for a living.
Typically, the puttingout industry employed A) only women. B) rural families. C) urban workers. D) men and older boys. E) older women in the countryside.
B) rural families.
The agricultural revolution was first manifested in A) England. B) the Low Countries. C) Sweden. D) North America. E) France.
B) the Low Countries
Early public health measures that may have helped reduce death rates in eighteenth century Europe included all of the following except A) drainage of swamps. B) inoculation against smallpox in England. C) discovery of an effective vaccine against the bubonic plague. D) improved urban sewage systems. E) cleaner water supplies.
C) discovery of an effective vaccine against the bubonic plague
The English Navigation Acts not only mandated that all English imports and exports be transported on English ships, they also A) restricted English banks from making foreign loans. B) initiated English involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. C) gave British merchants a virtual monopoly on trade with British colonies. D) created an alliance with the Dutch against the French. E) prevented the American colonists from building ships.
C) gave British merchants a virtual monopoly on trade with British colonies.
All of the following contributed to increased agricultural production in western Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries except A) increased use of animal fertilizers B) the elimination of the "fallow." C) programs to distribute land to the people who farmed it. D) drainage of marshlands. E) the introduction of new crops to rotate, such as turnips, potatoes, and clover
C) programs to distribute land to the people who farmed it.
The social group on which the success of the English agricultural revolution depended was the A) landowning aristocracy. B) landless peasants. C) tenant farmers. D) independent peasant farmers. E) Dutch agronomists.
C) tenant farmers
The major reason for the disappearance of the bubonic plague from western and central Europe after the early 1700s was probably A) the discovery of an effective vaccine against the disease. B) the breakdown in trade between Europe and India, where the plague was endemic. C) the brown rat's displacement of the black rat from ecological niches in Europe. D) rat extermination campaigns by urban governments. E) widespread quarantining of plague victims.
C) the brown rat's displacement of the black rat from ecological niches in Europe.
The expansion of Europe in the eighteenth century featured all of the following except A) growing population. B) increased world trade. C) disappearance of the bubonic plague. D) relatively peaceful international relations. E) the continuation of mercantilist policies begun in the seventeenth century.
D) relatively peaceful international relations
According to the text, the French government tried to improve living standards for the rural poor by A) paying a stipend to poor families. B) encouraging cheap English imports. C) hiring the poor on major public works projects. D) establishing a national network of free public elementary schools. E) encouraging the growth of cottage manufacturing.
E) encouraging the growth of cottage manufacturing
Between 1000 and 1800, the most dramatic downturn in European population occurred in the A) fourteenth century. B) eleventh century. C) seventeenth century. D) sixteenth century. E) twelfth century.
a) fourteenth century.
by the 1770s the biggest increase in foreign trade was with whom?
british colonial empire
who led the revitalization of spain?
philip V