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what was the chiefly responsible for European dominance over so much of the world from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century?
A: University Training
B: Innate cultural superiority
C: Technological
D:Advantageous diplomacy
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The creation in the Americas of the slave-based
economy led directly to over three centuries of extensive involvement by Europeans and white Americans in the slave trade with Africa.
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The terms and mercantile system were invented by opponents and critics of the system whereby governments heavily regulated trade and commerce in hope of increasing national wealth.
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The heart of the eighteenth-century colonial rivalry in the Americas lay in the West .
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By the close of the seventeenth century, the Caribbean islands were the world center for the production of
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Mercantilism was only imaginable after the Agricultural and Industrial revolutions had abolished the economy of scarcity.
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Spain attempted to impose monopolistic
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The technical legal link between the New World and Spain was the French Bourbon dynasty.
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Spain was defeated in Europe's mid-18th century wars.
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Different nations dominated the slave trade in different periods. During the sixteenth century, the Portuguese and the were most involved.
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As had been the case during previous centuries, eighteenth-century political turmoil in
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The newly arrived Africans were subjected to a process known as whereby they were prepared for the laborious discipline of slavery and made to understand that they were no longer free.
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In most cases, African slaves in the Americas were, like the Native Americans, eventually converted to .
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Generally speaking, most slave codes were designed to protect those held in bondage from the excessive cruelties of their masters.
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In the 18th century, European great power rivalry centered on overseas and on central/eastern Europe.
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The Seven Years' War began in 1756 when
A: Sweden, Russia and some smaller German states cut off trade with Prussia.
B:count Kaunitz broke off relations with France
C:aria Theresa invaded Sliesia, hoping to recover areas lost to Prussians
D:Frederick II invaded Saxony
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| Frederick II invaded Saxony. |
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Root causes of the American colonial revolt against Great Britain include all of the following EXCEPT
A:Management of western lands
B:imperial taxation.
C:the growth of the colonial economy.
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| failure to defeat the French. |
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The Townshend duties set the stage for events leading to the Boston Massacre.
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The political ideals and demands of the Americans
A:Drew upon the English Revolution of 1688
B:Had toots in the thoughts of John Locke
C:were set forth by Thomas Paine
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| came from all of these sources. |
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The 1783 Treaty of concluded the American Revolutionary War, and the 13 colonies had established their independence.
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The so-called "War of Jenkins' " inaugurated a series of European wars that lasted more than half a century.
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| British political writers whose radical republican ideas influenced the American revolutionaries |
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| Person of Spanish decent born in the Spanish colonies |
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Peninsulares (pen-in-SUE-la-rez)
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| Persons born in Spain who settled in the Spanish colonies. |
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| Measures passed by the british Parliament in 1774 to punish the colony of Massachusetts and strengthen Britain's authority in the colonies. The laws provoked colonial opposition which led immediately to American Revolution |
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Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Intolerable Acts?
A:Closing the port of Boston
B:Allowing the quartering of troops in private homes
C: Extening boundaries of Quebec to include the Ohio River Valley
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C: Extening boundaries of Quebec to include the Ohio River Valley
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Early in the 18th century, as many as 10,000 new Africans a year arrived in the West Indies as slaves.
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The four stages of European contact discussed in the textbook could be summarized as:
A) exploration, trade, slavery, independence.
B) settlement, exploitation, independence, neo-imperialism.
C) exploration, mercantilism, formal empires, decolonization.
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C) exploration, mercantilism, formal empires, decolonization.
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| _____ and guns allowed Europeans to dominate the globe. |
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Frederick II, of Prussia, was also known as Frederick the Great.
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| The most profitable resource to be exported from the West Indies to Europe was ____. |
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Peninsulares:
A) are persons born in Spain.
B) are persons with Spanish and native blood.
C) are persons of Spanish descent born in America.
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A) are persons born in Spain.
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Joseph Dupleix and Robert Clive are both important names associated with the European colonization efforts in India.
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The reforms of Charles III had all of the following effects EXCEPT:
A) bringing the empire more fully under direct Spanish control.
B) improving the lives of creoles (persons of European descent born in Spanish colonies).
C) creating new jobs overseas.
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B) improving the lives of creoles (persons of European descent born in Spanish colonies).
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| In response to the ___ Act, American colonists agreed to refuse to import British goods. |
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The flota system was a successful Spanish military squadron based in Caribbean ports.
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It was a less-than-successful convoy system for treasure fleets. |
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| The War of the American Revolution effectively concluded in 1781 when the forces of George Washington defeated the army of Lord Cornwallis at _____. |
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Which of the following best depicts the transatlantic economy?
A) West Indian ships too goods to Africa, traded for slaves, then returned to the West Indies.
B) European goods were traded for slaves, who were traded for sugar in the West Indies, which was shipped to Europe.
C) Slaves were taken to America and trade for goods, where were sent to Europe.
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B) European goods were traded for slaves, who were traded for sugar in the West Indies, which was shipped to Europe.
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Parliament passed a measure to restrict the power of the crown that was ultimately effective.
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The 1780 measure ultimately proved ineffective. |
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English ports did not directly profit from the Atlantic slave trade.
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False.
Liverpool, in particular, grew wealthy on the slave trade. |
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| Maria Theresa ruled the ____ Empire. |
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Which of the following was not a major crop from the West Indies?
A) Corn
B) Tobacco
C) Sugar
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| Besides the Americas, France and Britain also fought for economic superiority of ____. |
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Until the 19th century, African warfare determined which African peoples would be sold into slavery.
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Frederick II's invasion of Silesia in 1740:
A) violated the Treaty of Utrecht.
B) upset the continental balance of power.
C) shattered the provisions of the Pragmatic Sanction.
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At the conclusion of the Seven Years' War,:
A) the Spanish empire was utterly defeated.
B) Great Britain assumed the status of a world power.
C) France had no colonies left in America.
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B) Great Britain assumed the status of a world power.
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Common Sense helped turn colonial public opinion away from reconciliation and toward independence.
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After the American Revolution, British trade with her former colonies remained about the same as it had before the conflict.
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Trade between America and Britain actually increased. |
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Which of the following was NOT associated with mercantilism?
A) Gold and silver were to be accumulated.
B) The home country and its colonies were to trade exclusively with one another.
C) Colonies existed to provide markets and natural resources for the industries of the home country.
D) There was an unlimited supply of wealth in the world. |
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| D) There was an unlimited supply of wealth in the world. |
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| Because traders and merchants of one nation always wanted to break the monopoly of another, the 18th century was the "golden age of _____". |
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| The Treaty of _____ replaced the Bourbons of France on the Spanish throne. |
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Slavery began in the New World with the arrival of African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619.
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False.
Slave trading occurred in the West Indies and South America for over a century before the date. |
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Slaves in plantation societies led comfortable lives, to varying degrees.
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It is generally accepted that slaves led exposed and difficult lives with little variation among them. |
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The War of the Austrian Succession ended with the:
A) Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
B) Treaty of Westphalia.
C) 1783 Treaty of Paris.
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A) Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
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| The British monarch during the American Revolution was King ____. |
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