A) efficient governments providing security for commerce.
B) increased wealth and demand for goods.
C) an unprecedented decline in the eighteenth-century population.
D) business competition and innovation.
E) capital accumulation through an entrepreneurial spirit.
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A) Women were not allowed to work in mills.
B) Cottage industry provided highly priced and profitable luxury goods
C) Elimination of primogeniture
D) Land owners still had significant rights over their farm labor.
E) Early farm-labor collectives resisted factory work.
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A) because European food exports to the rest of the world brought in the necessary capital.
B) by creating the capacity to feed a large class of industrial workers.
C) by eliminating rural poverty.
D) by easing social tensions.
E) as a result of farm-labor collectives.
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A) higher mortality rates than in the countryside.
B) the growth of slums.
C) overcrowding and poor sanitation.
D) a safer water supply.
E) slums so vile that they actually attracted tourists.
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A) Because British workers tended to be highly skilled, British entrepreneurs searched for laborsaving devices.
B) The British had developed an effective banking system.
C) Britain possessed the necessary raw materials, coal and iron, in abundance and in close proximity to each other.
D) Britain was unified religiously under the Church of England, which preached that wealth was a sign of election.
E) English workers had more discretionary income to spend on manufactured goods.
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A) A new type of water-wheel.
B) A device to spin thread from cotton or wool.
C) A type of steam engine.
D) A new way of organizing railroads.
E) A type of flying shuttle.
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A) Russia and Italy.
B) Bohemia and Catalonia.
C) European areas of the Ottoman Empire.
D) Austria proper and Hungary.
E) Spain.
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A) natural water sources
B) petroleum
C) coal
D) whale oil
E) wind
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A) Britain
B) The Netherlands
C) Spain
D) France
E) Prussia
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A) It was biased towards agriculture
B) It was geographically remote
C) It had not abolished serfdom until 1861
D) It lacked a mobile labor force
E) All of these
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A) they were abolished in revolutionary France and restricted in Britain.
B) guild training was not needed for factory work.
C) they sponsored a number of unsuccessful and politically damaging revolts.
D) their efforts to protect their members from exploitation were seen as hindering technological and economic development.
E) they were seen as a threat to free trade and free flow of labor.
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A) skilled workers.
B) indistinguishable from earlier apprentices.
C) unskilled and dependent on factory owners for their livelihood.
D) urban revolutionaries.
E) unable to join guilds.
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