Exam 17: The Atlantic System and Its Consequences, 1700-1750

Why did slavery based on racist ideology not develop until more than 150 years after the first African was transported to the Americas? How did economic changes affecting Europe and the colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries affect the development of this ideology?

This map of European trading patterns c. 1740 demonstrates that, by the middle of the eighteenth century, ​ ​ ​

How did the gender imbalance in the colonies increase the risks a European woman faced if she immigrated to the colonies as an indentured servant?

Which of the following was a consequence of the early-eighteenth-century consumer revolution in Europe?

How did improvements in agriculture and the decline of the plague pave the way for a consumer revolution in the early eighteenth century?

Why did clothing develop special importance in eighteenth-century cities?

Which of the following statements about Europe by 1750 is supported by this map? ​ ​ ​

In his campaign for greater toleration, French Huguenot refugee Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) published his Historical and Critical Dictionary (1697), which

What lasting impact did the slave trade and the plantation system have on Europe?

By the 1700s, most slaves were purchased from

Why did plantation slavery replace indentured servitude as the major economic anchor of the Atlantic system?

What factors contributed to Britain's agricultural revolution in the 1700s?

Why was the 1722 Table of Ranks an important step toward Russian royal absolutism?

By the eighteenth century, many Europeans began to try to provide a rationale for the institution of slavery based predominantly on what grounds?

In the Act of Union of 1707, Scottish Protestant leaders abolished the Scottish Parliament and agreed to obey the Parliament of Great Britain

What did critics of the Enlightenment find so dangerous about the new intellectual movement?

Plantations in the New World can best be described as

What determined the balance of white and Black populations in each of the New World colonies?

How did the French government respond to Voltaire's Letters Concerning the English Nation, published in the early 1730s?

Explain the relationship between the Atlantic system and the development of consumer society.