Exam 8: Economy and Society Transformed: The Eighteenth Century

During the eighteenth century, the use of wet nurses declined among the elite but became more common among working women.

How did understandings of marriage change in the eighteenth century?

Who were the aristocratic social elite?

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, governments used a variety of policies to help develop industrial growth. What were some of these government policies?

During the reign of Frederick the Great of Prussia, porcelain factories disposed of surplus production through a government policy that required Jews wishing to marry to pay a fee to factories with unsellable merchandise.

The "taming of the nobility" meant that nobles no longer had a significant political role in eighteenth-century Europe.

The construction of corridors and separate sleeping quarters in houses is a physical reflection of the increased demand for ________ during the eighteenth century.

According to many eighteenth-century social critics, ________ was the root cause of the evils plaguing society.

What was the impact of enclosure?

How did the shift from a society based on orders to one based on socioeconomic class occur in the eighteenth century?

Eighteenth-century governments attempted to encourage the consumption of new products in order to increase their sales tax revenue.

People in the eighteenth century were aware that they were witnessing the birth of industrialization.

The professionalization of armies meant that eighteenth-century warfare had less of an effect on civilian populations than conflicts in earlier centuries.

Although it was not an industrialized economy, early modern Europe still had different types of manufacturing. Over the course of the eighteenth century, ________ eclipsed household and craft manufacturing.

The main reason for an enclosure system of tenancy was ________.

European society transformed over the course of the eighteenth century. How did it do so?

The establishment of stock exchanges in the eighteenth century was always accompanied by strong regulations designed to prevent fraud and abuse.

Improvements in transportation were a central component of economic development in the eighteenth century.

What factors played a role in the expanding population growth of the eighteenth century?

What was the industrious revolution?