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Chapter 23 Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following was a result of the boom in agricultural production of the eighteenth century?
a. Families began to stockpile foodstuffs for shortages.
b. Large numbers of people began leaving cities to move to farms.
c. People had more money to spend on manufactured goods.
d. People put more money into banks for saving.
2. In which British industry did the first modern factories begin to appear?
3. In the English putting-out system, what did merchants do with raw materials?
4. What was one of the major limitations of the putting-out system in the British textile industry?
5. Who invented the spinning jenny around 1765?
a. James Hargreaves
b. Friedrich Engels
c. Samuel Crompton
d. James Watt