Chapter 18 flash cards

Question 1

Community Controls

Answer 1

Common action in a traditional village to maintain the economic, social and moral stability of the community

Question 2

Charivari

Answer 2

Degrading public rituals to maintain community controls

Question 3

Illegitimacy Explosion

Answer 3

Increase in births outside of marriage between 1750 and 1850 caused by low wages and loss of the community controls

Question 4

Wet-Nursing

Answer 4

18th century business where women were paid to breast-feed another woman’s baby

Question 5

Blood Sports

Answer 5

Events that involved inflicting violence on animals, popular with 18th century English masses

Question 6

Carnival

Answer 6

Days that precede lent with drinking, dancing, and rowdy spectacles in Catholic countries

Question 7

Just Price

Answer 7

Idea that prices should be fair, for producers and consumers, sometimes to be imposed by the government

Question 8

Consumer Revolution

Answer 8

Growth in consumption and new attitudes towards consumer goods that emerged in Northwestern Europe in the late 1700s

Question 9

Pietism

Answer 9

Movement in Protestantism for Enthusiasm in prayer, emotional religion, and importance of Christian rebirth

Question 10

Methodists

Answer 10

Members of protestant revival movement started by John Wesley

Question 11

Jansenism

Answer 11

Sect of Catholicism by Cornelius Jansen that emphasized the original sin and predestination; outlawed by the pope