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Used to turn raw cotton into usable thread
What is the Spinning Jenny
100
Bourbon ruler in Spain that led many reforms to revive the trade with the colonies
Who is Charles III
100
Started by the Intolerable Acts and unfair taxation
What is the American Revolution or Revolutionary War
100
1671-1831; English aristocrats had legal rights to hunt game on their land
What are English Game Laws
100
Separate Jewish communities inside of cities or villages in the countryside?
What is a ghetto
200
Spanish born in the Americas
What are Creoles
200
This queen's rule was challenged by Prussia during the War of Austrian Succession
Who is Maria Theresa
200
1756-1763, England back Prussia and France backs Austria
What is the Seven Years' War
200
Replaced the open field or village method of farming...take small plots of land and turn them into large tracts of farm land
What is the enclosure method/policy
200
Northwestern European households were this type of family usually having 5-6 members, including servants
What is nuclear family
300
Hapsburg serfs who had compulsory duties to the lord
What is Robot
300
Invented the seed drill
Who is Jethro Tull
300
English and Spanish competition in the West Indies was the main cause of this war in 1739
What is the War of Jenkins' Ear
300
Requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of documents to make them legal
What is the Stamp Act
300
1-5% of the population, had most of the social, political and economic power
What is aristocracy
400
Holder of a Spanish administrative office, used during the Bourbon reforms of Charles III, modeled after the French version
What are Intendents
400
Invented the Water Frame
Who is Richard Arkwright
400
After the War of Austrian Succession, what treaty with Britain was renewed to allow Spain to import slaves from their colonies?
What is the Treaty of Utrecht
400
Government controls all of the foreign trade in their colonies
What is mercantilism
400
Wrote Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine
500
French peasants, main characteristic was that they paid feudal dues
What were/are Banalities
500
Arrested after criticizing the treaty with France in print, elected to Parliament several times, but King would not allow it
Who is John Wilkes
500
During the Diplomatic Revolution, who did Britain side with in the Convention of Westminster?
Who is Germany
500
This treaty ended the Seven Years' War between the French and British
What is the Treaty of Paris 1763
500
What are the 4 phases of European contact with the New World?
What is discovery, exploration, conquest and settlement