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Poise and Confidence when presenting
Dressing up (worth 15 points)
Amount of detail in answers
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Describe some of the challenges that Europeans faced in the 1700s
What was the open-field system? When did it originate? Describe the role of common lands.
Describe the labor and tax system in Europe during the 1700s.
Identify two specific reasons for the difficult circumstances in which eastern European serfs
found themselves in the 1700s.
Compare the role of peasants in eastern and western Europe in the eighteenth century.
Describe the process of crop rotation and the impact that this practice had on Europeans.
Why did Europeans enclose their lands? What was the Enclosure Movement? Identify two
specific consequences for enclosure.
In which two European countries was enclosure the most widespread?
Which countries led the Agricultural Revolution? Why (at least two reasons)?
What was the Agricultural Revolution and why was it revolutionary?
Identify the accomplishments of Vermuyden, Townsend, and Tull.
Discuss the costs and benefits of enclosure.
Identify three things that kept Europe’s population growth fairly low.
Identify five specific reasons for population growth in Europe during the 18th Century.
What resulted from Europe’s population growth?
What was the cottage industry and why did peasants pursue work from home?
Describe the way that the putting out system worked
Explain how the English textile system is an example of the putting out system.
19- Identify problems that arose from the putting out system.
20- Which country took the lead in global trade in the early 18th century? Which countries unified in
1707?
21- Describe five characteristics of mercantilism.
22- What did the Navigation Acts establish and in what ways were they a form of economic
warfare?
23- Identify the causes, participants and outcomes of the War of the Spanish Succession
24- Identify the causes, participants and outcomes of the Seven Years’ War.
25- In what specific ways did colonies help European countries?
26- What factors led to the establishment of slavery in colonies?
27- Which European powers were involved in the slave trade?
28- How did the English mercantilist system benefit colonies?
29- Name two specific ways that trade with colonies benefitted England.
30- Identify two specific successes that Spain had in the Americas during the late 1700s.
31- Who dominated the economy in much of Latin America in the 18th century and how did they
exercise their power?
32- Compare racial mixing in North America and Spanish America.
33- Identify the name of the important book on economic theory that Adam Smith wrote. Discuss
three ideas that Smith promoted in his work?