Ap Euro Chapter 7 And 8

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Agriculture Revolution

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The innovation in farm products that begin in the 18th century and led to a scientific and mechanized agriculture

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Aristocratic resurgence

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Term applied to the 18th century aristocratic efforts to resist the expanding power of the European monarchies

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Consumer revolution

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The vast increase in both the desire and the possibility of consuming goods and services that began in the early 18th century and created the demand for sustaining the Industrial Revolution

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Domestic system of textile production

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Method of producing textiles in which agents furnished raw materials to households whose members spun them into thread and then wove cloth, which the agents then sold as finish products.

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Spinning Jenny

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A machine invented in England by James Hargreaves around 1765 to mass-produce thread.

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Water frame

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A water-powered device invented by Richard Arkwright to produce a more durable cotton fabric. It led to the shift in the production of cotton textiles from households to factories

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Old Regime

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Term applied to the pattern of social, political, and economic relationships and institutions that existed in Europe before the French Revolution

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Family economy

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The basic structure of production and consumption in pre industrial Europe

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Enclosures

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The consolidation or fencing in of common lands by British landlords to increase production and achieve greater commercial profits. It also involved the reclamation of waste land and the consolidation of strips into block fields.

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Industrial Revolution

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Mechanization of the European economy that began in Britain in the second half of the 18th century.

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Ghettos

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Separate communities in which Jews were required by law to live

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Mercantilism

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Teem used to describe close government control of the economy that sought to maximize exports and accumulate as much precious metals as possible to enable the state to defend its economics and political interests

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Peninsulares

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Person born in Spain who settled in the Spanish colonies

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Creoles

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Persons of Spanish descent born in the Spanish colonies

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Intolerable Acts

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Measures passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the colony of Massachusetts and strength Britain's authority in the colonies. The laws provoked colonial opposition, which led immediately to the American Revolution

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Commonwealthmen

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British political writers whose radical Republican ideas influenced the American revolutionaries