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Which two groups replaced Indigenous peoples in the Americas?Read the answer and worked solution →Indentured servants in the American colonies could not marry without whose permission?Read the answer and worked solution →What do historians call large-scale production for world markets before factories?Read the answer and worked solution →Which producer associations trained craftspeople in towns?Read the answer and worked solution →Why could merchants not expand production in towns?Read the answer and worked solution →Which person sorted fibre and sold it on to the English clothier?Read the answer and worked solution →By roughly which decade had the earliest factories appeared in England?Read the answer and worked solution →How much raw cotton did Britain import in 1787 to feed its cotton industry?Read the answer and worked solution →How many steam engines were in England at the start of the nineteenth century?Read the answer and worked solution →Of England's early steam engines, how many worked in cotton industries?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did James Watt patent his improved steam engine?Read the answer and worked solution →Which industrialist friend manufactured James Watt's improved steam engine?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was the typical mid-nineteenth-century worker in Britain?Read the answer and worked solution →When labour was plentiful in Victorian Britain, what happened to wages?Read the answer and worked solution →How many varieties of hammers were made in mid-nineteenth-century Britain?Read the answer and worked solution →What did handmade products come to symbolise for Victorian upper classes?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kind of country made industrialists keen on mechanical power?Read the answer and worked solution →What mainly decided whether a job-seeker got a factory job quickly?Read the answer and worked solution →Before the mid-1800s, what share of the urban population was extremely poor?Read the answer and worked solution →In the 1830s slump, unemployment in different regions reached what range?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did real earnings fall during the Napoleonic War?Read the answer and worked solution →In what year was the Spinning Jenny devised?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did women who lived on hand work attack new woollen machines?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose textiles led the world market before machine industries?Read the answer and worked solution →Which merchants carried Indian textiles to Central Asia?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Gujarat coast port linked India with the Gulf and Red Sea ports?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two ports grew as Surat and Hoogly declined under colonial trade?Read the answer and worked solution →Who did the East India Company appoint as a paid servant to supervise weavers?Read the answer and worked solution →Which system kept weavers tied to selling only to the Company?Read the answer and worked solution →How did some weavers in Carnatic and Bengal escape Company control?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which two groups replaced Indigenous peoples in the Americas?

  1. European colonists and African slaves
  2. Portuguese monks and Arab sailors
  3. Chinese labourers and Pacific islanders
  4. Dutch traders and Indian merchants
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Correct answer: A. European colonists and African slaves

European colonists and enslaved Africans replaced Indigenous populations in the Americas, though to different degrees.

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Indentured servants in the American colonies could not marry without whose permission?

  1. A local parish priest
  2. The colonial governor
  3. Their village elders
  4. Their own master
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Correct answer: D. Their own master

Indentured servants needed their master's permission before they could marry.

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What do historians call large-scale production for world markets before factories?

  1. Proto-industrialisation
  2. Guild-based manufacturing
  3. Factory mass production
  4. Royal monopoly trade
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Correct answer: A. Proto-industrialisation

Historians use this term for the early phase in which merchants organised goods made in households for distant markets.

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