Why was Britain further ahead than other European nations in accumulated capital for investment in industry?
a. It had a larger navy that could protect its colonies.
b. It vehemently objected to the slave trade and depended on domestic labor.
c. Its substantial economic growth was fueled by the Atlantic trade.
d. It had a better educational system to prepare workers for skilled trades.
e. Its per capita income was higher than anywhere else in Europe.
c
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Unlike any import taxes the colonies had ever seen, the Townshend Acts taxed
a. goods manufactured in the colonies. b. colonial banks. c. products made within the British empire. d. slave labor.
What is true about the Navigation Laws before 1763?
a. They made British merchants wealthy at the expense of Americans. b. They hurt Great Britain more than the American colonies. c. They prevented Americans from trading with countries besides Britain. d. They discouraged smuggling by American colonial merchants. e. They were only loosely enforced in the American colonies.
Towns grew fastest in the cities of England.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Considered a reactionary, de Maistre
a. denounced the Enlightenment of the philosophes as an "insurrection against God." b. condemned any kind of religious or political liberalism. c. regarded the Revolution as satanic evil. d. claimed that everything connected with the Revolution, including its roots, must be expunged from the soil of Christian Europe. e. all of the above