CADS 2000 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2026 - AUBURN
UNIVERSITY
What is a consumer? - ANS a person who purchases goods and services for personal use
when did it become profitable to study consumers? - ANS during the silk road (114 BC-1450's
BC)
before the industrial revolution, what lifestyle did the vast majority of the world live? -
ANS agrarian, subsistence lifestyle
what is a serf? - ANS an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his
lord's estate
what is a peasant? - ANS a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece
of land for cultivation
in what country did the industrial revolution begin? - ANS Great Britain
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, what industry lead the industrial revolution? - ANS textile
what was fairly common in the pre-industrialized world? - ANS monopolies in trade
what event marked the advent of the agricultural revolution? - ANS crop rotation- learning
how to rotate crops to prevent soil to be replenished
Seeds from the New World provided food with calories
what was the UK's and US's natural resources? - ANS - fertile land and long growing seasons
-coal and iron
- rivers and canals that were navigable
what was the mercantile system - ANS it said that national government should regulate the
production and foreign trade in order to increase political power
what is Samuel Slater known for? - ANS brought plans for textile mills to America; mill
opened in 1791 in Rhode Island
what was one of the most labor intensive good to produce? - ANS cotton
__________ mills were mainly in the south - ANS cotton
_________ mills were mainly in the north - ANS woolen
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ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2026 - AUBURN
UNIVERSITY
What is a consumer? - ANS a person who purchases goods and services for personal use
when did it become profitable to study consumers? - ANS during the silk road (114 BC-1450's
BC)
before the industrial revolution, what lifestyle did the vast majority of the world live? -
ANS agrarian, subsistence lifestyle
what is a serf? - ANS an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his
lord's estate
what is a peasant? - ANS a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece
of land for cultivation
in what country did the industrial revolution begin? - ANS Great Britain
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1
, what industry lead the industrial revolution? - ANS textile
what was fairly common in the pre-industrialized world? - ANS monopolies in trade
what event marked the advent of the agricultural revolution? - ANS crop rotation- learning
how to rotate crops to prevent soil to be replenished
Seeds from the New World provided food with calories
what was the UK's and US's natural resources? - ANS - fertile land and long growing seasons
-coal and iron
- rivers and canals that were navigable
what was the mercantile system - ANS it said that national government should regulate the
production and foreign trade in order to increase political power
what is Samuel Slater known for? - ANS brought plans for textile mills to America; mill
opened in 1791 in Rhode Island
what was one of the most labor intensive good to produce? - ANS cotton
__________ mills were mainly in the south - ANS cotton
_________ mills were mainly in the north - ANS woolen
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