AP Euro Chpt 18 Primer Questions
The expansion of the "division of labor" and of "mass production" through the development of standard parts and manufacturing processes were simulated by ...
Factory system
Which of the following would most likely oppose laissez-faire policies in 19th century Europe:
a socialist
The Industrial Revolution created two new social classes:
capitalists and the proletariat
The text of Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia was centered primarily on
technology
Diderot's collaborator in writing the encyclopedia was...
D'Alembert
Which nation dominated overseas colonization in the 16th century?
Spain
By 1800, the Industrial Revolution had the greatest impact on...
Sweden
A number of technological advances through the 18th century made possible the large-scale production of which of the following?
Textiles
Which of the following best describes the open-field system of the Middle Ages?
The land was divided into long, narrow strips that were not enclosed by fences or hedges.
Which was NOT one of the results of the opening of the Atlantic to commerce with Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries...
The nobility increased its wealth
Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, armies affected population growth in all of the following ways except
a large number of individuals were killed on the battlefield
In the eighteenth century, the advocates for agricultural innovation argued that
landholdings and common lands needed to be consolidated and enclosed in order to farm more efficiently
Mercantilism, the prevailing economic theory of the 17th century Europe was based on all of the following ideas EXCEPT?
that government should not regulate or interfere with the nation's economy
An immediate result of the commercial revolution that occurred with the increased productivity stimulated by the precious metals coming from the Americas was...
the rise of capitalism
The Price Revolution of the 16th century was caused by:
the wars of religion caused by the Reformation
In the eighteenth century, the biggest increase in British foreign trade was with:
the British colonial empire
The basic idea of Mercantilism was:
the main entrance of a favorable trade in order to increase the country's holdings in gold and silver
The leadership of the Dutch people in farming methodology can be attributed primarily to
the necessity to provide for a densely populated country
The second Enclosure Movement, occurring in England in the 18th century was designed to:
to increase and consolidate crop lands
Between 1650 and 1790, a crucial component of the global economy was established when European nations developed:
the Atlantic economy
Which of the following best describes the role of women in guilds in the eighteenth century?
Both legal and illegal work in guilds became more accessible to women
The English Navigation Acts mandated that all English imports and exports be transported on English ships, and they also
gave British merchants a virtual monopoly on trade with British colonies
"There is no place for industry... no arts; no letters; no society; and which is the worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." This quotation from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651) describes the concept known as...
state of nature
All of the following characteristics of the Industrial Revolution (1780-1830) EXCEPT?
that it took place first in France
Enclosures were required:
to permit scientific farming