Question 1

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Josiah Wedgewood

Accepted Answer

English pottery manufacturer w

Question 2

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-division of labor

Accepted Answer

Manufacturing arrangement wher

Question 3

What is true of the average death rate of the Middle Passage?

Accepted Answer

A)  More than 30 percent of Africans died. 
B)  Fewer than 5 percent of Europeans died. 
C)  Over 90 percent of Africans survived the journey. 
D)  Europeans died at greater rates than Africans. 
E)  None of these. 
A)  More than 30 percent of Africans died. 
B)  Fewer than 5 percent of Europeans died. 
C)  Over 90 percent of Africans survived the journey. 
D)  Europeans died at greater rates than Africans. 
E)  None of these.

Question 4

What process prohibited foreigners from trade with British colonies?

Accepted Answer

A)  Navigation Acts 
B)  Salutary neglect 
C)  The Treaty of Paris 
D)  the Townshend Acts 
E)  the Magna Carta 
A)  Navigation Acts 
B)  Salutary neglect 
C)  The Treaty of Paris 
D)  the Townshend Acts 
E)  the Magna Carta

Question 5

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Physiocrats

Accepted Answer

French economists wh

Question 6

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Industrial Revolution

Accepted Answer

Changes in manufacturing invol

Question 7

Sugar was one of the major staple crops of the Jamestown Company.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Smith's concept of the division of labor relied on ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  specialization 
B)  equal pay 
C)  the "invisible hand" 
D)  consumers 
E)  laissez-faire capitalism 
A)  specialization 
B)  equal pay 
C)  the "invisible hand" 
D)  consumers 
E)  laissez-faire capitalism

Question 9

Why do historians think there was an increased sense of privacy, comfort, and familial demonstration during this period?

Accepted Answer

A)  A growing sense of individualism as promoted in the Enlightenment 
B)  Increased wealth made luxury goods more standardized 
C)  Effects of greater awareness of other cultures in the world 
D)  Demands for privacy were increased by a greater population 
E)  The end of the wars of religion of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries 
A)  A growing sense of individualism as promoted in the Enlightenment 
B)  Increased wealth made luxury goods more standardized 
C)  Effects of greater awareness of other cultures in the world 
D)  Demands for privacy were increased by a greater population 
E)  The end of the wars of religion of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

Question 10

Which of the following was not a factor in increasing population statistics in the eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  End of the bubonic plague 
B)  Containment of disease epidemics like smallpox 
C)  Younger age of marriage 
D)  Regular bathing practices 
E)  Less wars fought in Europe 
A)  End of the bubonic plague 
B)  Containment of disease epidemics like smallpox 
C)  Younger age of marriage 
D)  Regular bathing practices 
E)  Less wars fought in Europe

Question 11

What year was the flying shuttle invented?

Accepted Answer

A)  1721 
B)  1733 
C)  1744 
D)  1756 
E)  1768 
A)  1721 
B)  1733 
C)  1744 
D)  1756 
E)  1768

Question 12

Who was highest ranked in social order in eighteenth-century Britain?

Accepted Answer

A)  Peerage 
B)  Gentry 
C)  Merchantry 
D)  Middling sorts 
E)  Clergy 
A)  Peerage 
B)  Gentry 
C)  Merchantry 
D)  Middling sorts 
E)  Clergy

Question 13

Carrying trade in New England meant ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  transportation of goods in the triangle trade from Africa to America and back to Europe 
B)  the growth of infrastructure in the colonies to facilitate transportation of goods for trade 
C)  a shipping enterprise that moved commodities from one part of the empire to another 
D)  an extension of credit in which the merchant would carry the balance of goods until they were sold for profit 
E)  a streamlining of transportation methods between joint-stock companies in the New World and Europe 
A)  transportation of goods in the triangle trade from Africa to America and back to Europe 
B)  the growth of infrastructure in the colonies to facilitate transportation of goods for trade 
C)  a shipping enterprise that moved commodities from one part of the empire to another 
D)  an extension of credit in which the merchant would carry the balance of goods until they were sold for profit 
E)  a streamlining of transportation methods between joint-stock companies in the New World and Europe

Question 14

Adam Smith took a particular interest in the manufacture of pins.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

What led to Britain's emergence as the leader of the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary. There are six importa

Question 16

Why did the Atlantic become the preeminent trade route in the eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary. Trade from Asia and t

Question 17

Nationalism in France was considered more a case of ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  religious unification 
B)  promotion of economic growth plans 
C)  unification against domination by the British 
D)  continental supremacy 
E)  a longer cultural history 
A)  religious unification 
B)  promotion of economic growth plans 
C)  unification against domination by the British 
D)  continental supremacy 
E)  a longer cultural history

Question 18

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Adam Smith

Accepted Answer

Scottish philosopher and econo

Question 19

The Gordon Riots in London were started because of ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  grain shortages 
B)  allowing Catholics to serve in the army and own land 
C)  workers being denied the right to form unions 
D)  the passage of the Combination Act of 1799 
E)  a police crackdown on workers who had broken manufacturing equipment to protest low wages 
A)  grain shortages 
B)  allowing Catholics to serve in the army and own land 
C)  workers being denied the right to form unions 
D)  the passage of the Combination Act of 1799 
E)  a police crackdown on workers who had broken manufacturing equipment to protest low wages

Question 20

Due to the market revolution and the transformation of class structure, the peerage in eighteenth century Britain became obsolete and disappeared.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 18: Trade and Empire

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. -Josiah Wedgewood

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. -division of labor

What is true of the average death rate of the Middle Passage?

What process prohibited foreigners from trade with British colonies?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. -Physiocrats

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. -Industrial Revolution

Sugar was one of the major staple crops of the Jamestown Company.

Smith's concept of the division of labor relied on ______________.

Why do historians think there was an increased sense of privacy, comfort, and familial demonstration during this period?

Which of the following was not a factor in increasing population statistics in the eighteenth century?

What year was the flying shuttle invented?

Who was highest ranked in social order in eighteenth-century Britain?

Carrying trade in New England meant ______________.

Adam Smith took a particular interest in the manufacture of pins.

What led to Britain's emergence as the leader of the Industrial Revolution?

Why did the Atlantic become the preeminent trade route in the eighteenth century?

Nationalism in France was considered more a case of ______________.

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. -Adam Smith

The Gordon Riots in London were started because of ______________.

Due to the market revolution and the transformation of class structure, the peerage in eighteenth century Britain became obsolete and disappeared.

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The Rise of Rome

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Europes Age of Expansion

Reform in the Western Church

A Century of Crisis

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The Triumph of the Nation-State

The Culture of Industrial Europe

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