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1. The term industrious revolution refers to (A) the industrial revolution in the countryside rather than in the cities.(B) household labor becoming market orientated and wage paid.(C) men working harder to support their households so that wives and children did not work.(E) the cottage industry in southern and southeastern Europe.2. Which is the correct order in which states become dominant in world trade in Asia from sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries?I. BritainII. FranceIII. HollandIV. Portugal(A) III, IV, and I(B) I, III, IV, and II(C) IV, III, II, and I(D) II, IV, III, and I(E) IV, II, III and I3. The theory of economic liberalism, or laissez-faire capitalism, is concerned mostly about the needs of (A) manufacturers.(B) governments.(C) merchants.(D) landlords.4. The navigation Acts helped Britain to become a great naval power by (A) requiring foreign goods be brought into Britain on British ships(B) requiring that all slaves going to the American be transported on British ships.(C) creating Europe’s first naval academy for the training of officers.(D) requiring the use of sailors from the American colonies.(E) arming British ships with the newest military technology.5. Which was not an advantage of the cottage, or putting-out, system?(A) It allowed merchant capitalists to evade regulations.(B) It allowed households to increase their incomes.(C) It gave women greater say the same as men.(D) Women began to earn almost the same as men.(E) It kept the family together as an economic unit.6. The guild system in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries(A) went into serious decline, never to recuperate.(B) expanded its control over manufacturing into the countryside.(C) flourished as never before.(D) we too rigid to adapt to new methods of production and new technology.(E) remained closed to women.7. By the eighteenth century, which was the largest group in the population after the native Indians in Spanish America?(A) Recent immigrants from Spain(B) Creoles(C) Mestizos(D) Enslaved blacks8. Spain’s South American colonies were similar to Britain’s New England in that (A) few Europeans settled there.(B) the economy was city based, not land based(C) both already had some autonomy in the early eighteenth century.(D) the British were not allowed to trade there. (E) African slavery was relatively uncommon9. The single most important component of the agricultural revolution was the (A) ending of the practice of leaving the land fallow.(B) animal breeding. (C) use of the potato.(D) use of root crops.(E) enclosure movement.10. The chief reason for the rise in population in the eighteenth century was the (A) rise in birth rates.(B) rise in illegitimacy.(C) decline in death rates.(D) improvements in medicine. (E) widespread use of the smallpox vaccine.11. The enclosure movements in England(A) was opposed by Parliament.(B) led to the tight concentration of land ownership.(C) allowed many small and medium-size farmers to prosper. (D) meant large fields were divided into strips.(E) had little impact on productivity. 12. The time span between the height of the slave trade and its abolition in Britain was about(A) thirty years.(B) fifty years.(C) one hundred years.(D) ten years.(E) one hundred and twenty years.13. The impact of the slave trade on African states was (A) uniformly disastrous.(B) uniformly beneficial.(C) very little as slaving was mostly a coastal matter.(D) disastrous for the West Indian kingdom of Dahomey.(E) to encourage warfare among Africans.14. By the Treaty of Paris in 1763,(A) England won the asiento. (B) France took possession of Louisiana.(C) Spain gave England its colonies in the Caribbean.(D) France ceded its territories in India to Britain.(E) France ceded Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to Britain. 15. By the end of the eighteenth century, London(A) had become the second largest city in Europe , behind Paris.(B) expanded with new townhouse surrounding squares in the West End.(C) abandoned its location on the Thames after the Great Fire(D) became more industrial than commercial. (E) rebuilt the city as a series of circular rings. ................
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