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Which of these people would be most likely to have been given slightly more rations during a famine?

a preteen male in Europe

If all else is equal, who has the best chance of surviving a famine?

adult females

The Vital Revolution began

at no specific time, but roughly in the mid-eighteenth century.

Which crop was the main reason that slavery grew in the United States from 1800 to 1865?

cotton

What disease did Edward Jenner use as a basis for creating his smallpox vaccine?

cowpox

Which of the following is true of the abolition of serfdom in Russia?

not; Serfs were paid a "redemption tax" to help make up for years of lost wages. Landowners were compensated for lost land, but not for lost serfs.

The two most important reasons underlying the abolition of slavery in the Americas were

not; normal evolutionary changes and natural progression of humanity extended warfare and lack of sanitation.

Which two events helped bring an end to slavery in the Atlantic world?

not; the Industrial Revolution and the Spanish Civil War

The global web brought together which three forces that helped to put an end to forced labor?

not; the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, and the Vital Revolution war, revolts, and violent protests

Which two crowd diseases were the most deadly during the biological old regime?

smallpox and measles

When and where did Quakers' moral objections to slavery first emerge?

the 1670s in Barbados

The largest slave emancipation in the world came with

the French Revolution.

How many petitions were sent to Britain's Parliament from 1828 to 1830 demanding an end to slavery?

5000

The percentage of Chicago residents who died due to cholera was ________ in 1854 and ________ in 1920.

6 percent; less than 1 percent

Following the end of the American Civil War, the two main places slavery still existed in the Atlantic world were

Brazil and the Caribbean sugar islands.

When was slavery formally abolished in Haiti?

1801

When did Britain's Slavery Abolition Act take effect?

1834

By when did most indentured labor come to a natural end due to the increased availability of cheap labor?

1914

What was the average global life expectancy in 1750?

27

All forms of forced labor included an element of race.

FALSE

When the Slavery Abolition Act passed in the British Parliament, it immediately ended slavery throughout the British Empire.

FALSE

Calls for abolition of forced labor first came from areas where the practice was central to the society.

False

The main reason that infant and child mortality rates decreased during the Vital Revolution was the increase in the number of doctors to attend births and treat babies.

False

During the biological old regime, crowd diseases were deadly, but most other types of diseases were not.

Flase

How many serfs and peasants were ultimately freed in the years after 1861 in Russia?

NOT; 23 MILLION 25 million

Where did the worst known episode of an animal epidemic take place?

NOT; EUROPE

In Russia, what distinguished serfdom from slavery?

NOT; Serfs were not bought and sold. Serfs were routinely able to improve their lot in life.

Which of these is true of the impact of ending the slave trade on slavery itself?

NOT; Spain abolished and enforced a ban on slave trading in 1817 as a response to Britain's ban, and that effectively ended slavery throughout Spanish-controlled lands. Ending the slave trade meant an end to slavery around the world. The slave trade couldn't be ended in the United States until 1865, and slavery ended then, too.

How often, on average, could India expect to experience a deadly famine during the biological old regime?

NOT; There are no records that allow us to know for sure. every year there was a good harvest every two years

Which of the following is true of indentured labor as compared to slavery or serfdom?

NOT; Unlike serfs or slaves, indentured servants rarely received corporal punishment.

Which country had the largest ratio of forced laborers to free citizens in the mid-1860s?

NOT; united states Brazil

How dangerous was it for indentured migrants to travel to the Caribbean?

Roughly 2-3 percent of indentured laborers died on the journey.

Cholera and influenza were resistant to the effects of the Vital Revolution because of globalization.

TRUE

Cuba and Brazil both abolished slavery in part due to the increase in slave revolts.

TRUE

Prior to the French Revolution, some European leaders thought serfdom was immoral, but few took steps to end it.

TRUE

Two conditions that increased the likelihood of forced labor were warfare and large-scale economic opportunities.

TRUE

To avoid crowd diseases and waterborne infections, a person in the eighteenth century would be better off living where?

The English Countryside

Why did planters in the British West Indies seek limits on Christian missionaries?

The slave revolt leaders were educated by the Christian missionaries.

What are epizootics?

epidemics that kill off animals

Once the germ theory of disease was developed, cities quickly adopted sanitation methods without hesitation in order to save lives.

false

Which of the following is true of France's abolition of slavery?

not; All parts of the French Empire were free of slavery by 1802.

What was the main reason for the increase in the world's population during the Vital Revolution?

not; Diseases were being eradicated.

Where did inoculation apparently begin?

not; Europe Ottomaan Empire

The Vital Revolution involved an overall increase in

not; Forced labor.