Chapter 18 Flashcards
agricultural revolution
-stop idling of crops
-replenish nutrients in soil
enclosure
-fencing off farming lands
-more area for landowning farmers to experiment
-made landless workers lose their jobs
proleteranization
small peasant farmers becoming landless rural wage workers
cottage industry
rural workers made things at home to sell on a market
putting out system
-urban capitalists gave raw materials to rural workers
-rural workers made things and gave them back to metchants
industrious revolution
-people more focused on earning wages than making things for themselves
-opened consumer market to more people
guild system
-urban
-monopoly over a trade
economic liberalism
-Adam Smith
-free market
navigation acts
-extended under Charles II
-english colonies only trade with england
treaty of paris (1763)
-ended seven years war
-france gave up colonies to england
debt peonage
-workers kept in debt
-worked to get food + shelter
atlantic slave trade
-africans sold for labor on plantations
open field system
-villages had open fields were peasants could work
anglo-dutch wars
-england took over new amsterdam and made it new york
seven years war
-French and Indian war
-ended in treaty of paris 1763
