CH 15 16. What invention transformed sugar refining, pottery making, and textile making?

CH 15

16. What invention transformed sugar refining, pottery making, and textile making? 

The water frame

The steam engine

The cotton gin

The printing press

17. How did the trade relationship between China and Europe change in the early nineteenth century? 

Westerners consumed less tea, so the overall amount of trade declined.

The English colonized China.

The balance of trade between China and Europe was reversed.

European rulers and upper classes suddenly developed a taste for Chinese silks, teas, jade, tableware, jewelry, paper, and ceramics.

18. Which of the following factors helped create the "industrious" revolution? 

Households were moved by revivalist preachers to work harder to avoid time for sinning.

Because of competition with slave and other forms of forced labor, most households had to include their children in laboring to provide enough income to survive.

Because of changing climates, households had to work much longer hours to grow enough food.

Households gave up leisure time to produce more goods for the market in order to buy products produced elsewhere.

19. Who constituted "the people," according to political arrangements Americans made during the War of Independence? 

Amerindians who had fought with the colonists

Former slaves who had a trade

Women over 30 years old

Propertied white men

20. In the eighteenth century, which of the following was an argument made against the mercantile system? 

The mercantile system decreased the power of kings and aristocrats.

The mercantile system promoted free trade between American colonies.

The mercantile system did not support mining bullion in the Americas.

The mercantile system kept people from sharing in the wealth that was circulating around the Atlantic world.