Author Question: Bourbon Spain failed to reconquer its colonial trade because of A) increasingly efficient ... (Read 60 times)

Themember4 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Bourbon Spain failed to reconquer its colonial trade because of

A) increasingly efficient competition from colonial industrial producers.
B) special commercial advantages granted British merchants by the Metheun Treaty.
C) political resistance from Spanish colonies jealous of their growing economic independence.
D) its own national industrial weakness and its failure to keep sea lanes open during wartime.

Question 2

Bourbon reforms led to increased agricultural production, itself the product of

A) improved productivity associated with mechanization of production.
B) greater demand for subsistence goods created by urban workers' prosperity.
C) higher agricultural prices and lower costs of agricultural machinery.
D) more extensive use of land and labor rather than improved productivity.