a. free trade of goods | ||
b. abolition of the guilds | ||
c. rationalization of the tax system | ||
d. All of the above |
a. The Industrial Revolution. | ||
b. Enlightenment ideas about equality and natural rights. | ||
c. Religious reform. | ||
d. An increase in secular culture in Europe. |
a. Enlightenment ideas about natural rights. | ||
b. Religion. | ||
c. Both A and B | ||
d. None of the Above |
a. A close intertwining of spiritual and temporal power. | ||
b. Equality before the law. | ||
c. Dare to use your own understanding. | ||
d. Individuals have natural rights. |
a. Should be given land equally with the landlords. | ||
b. Is inherently lazy. | ||
c. Is only one link in a complex economy. | ||
d. Is the most important person in the economy. |
a. A state financial crisis. | ||
b. Political delegitimation of the existing order through manifestos and other texts. | ||
c. The organization of militants into networks. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Transformations in military strategy | ||
b. The collapse of older, less centralized forms of taxation | ||
c. The Enlightenment | ||
d. Rallying behind a charismatic leader |
a. Increasing restrictions on aristocratic privileges. | ||
b. The concentration of monarchical power at Versailles. | ||
c. The way wars were funded. | ||
d. The Enlightenment. |
a. A cataclysmic change of all social and political relations. | ||
b. An abomination. | ||
c. A replacement of a governing order through mass-mobilization of non-institutional actors and an undermining of political authority. | ||
d. The replacement of a non-representative government with a representative one. |
a. Some form of representation for the people. | ||
b. The King must work in the people's best interests. | ||
c. The King could do whatever he wanted. | ||
d. Society needed to be protected from change. |
a. An exercise of the freedoms necessary for Enlightenment. | ||
b. The exchange of views and information with intellectual peers. | ||
c. Both A and B | ||
d. None of the above |
a. A power that is exercised by a monarch who is personally inclined to self-restraint. | ||
b. Power that the limited by the nature of its military. | ||
c. Power that is legally limited by a notion of universal rights | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Not everyone of the period knew how to read so public reading was important | ||
b. Democratic debate presupposes a central, public gathering space or Agora. | ||
c. Mass circulation of printed materials had not yet been developed, so public spaces enabled sharing of texts and other types of access. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Absolute Monarchy. | ||
b. Constitutional Monarchy. | ||
c. Democracy. | ||
d. World Empire. |
a. That people are finally growing up. | ||
b. That people are adopting new leisure activities. | ||
c. That people are learning to interact with information and the world independently of traditional authority. | ||
d. People need to become Athiest. |
a. Civilizations take different forms, but we are all the same as human beings. | ||
b. Particular traditions and customs are arbitrary, not necessary, not a function of being human but rather of being a human being in this situation. | ||
c. All human beings possess certain basic rights. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Governments originally got their sovereignty from the consent of the people. | ||
b. People need a system of strong punishments for society to work. | ||
c. Only Democracies are good government. | ||
d. Kings are necessary for an ordered society. |
a. The same people were in power after the Revolution. | ||
b. Everyone didn't have equality. | ||
c. American Society was still very much like English society. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Strategic mastery on the part of Washington. | ||
b. Logistical difficulties caused by the distance between England and the colonies and the problems they created for supplying the English army. | ||
c. The hostility of the population to an occupying force. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. a period that saw escalating actions on both sides that are best understood as political theater. | ||
b. the rise of non-violent civil disobedience. | ||
c. the collective punishment of Boston. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Relatively minor. The war would have ended the same way without France's involvement. | ||
b. Important, but not decisive. | ||
c. Decisive. The last phase of the war would not have been won without French assistance. | ||
d. Detrimental: In the long term, having foreign allies hurt the American position. |
a. By suggesting that revolution was already happening. | ||
b. By its systematic demolition of the reasons to remain a colony. | ||
c. By its rhetoric of commons sense and plain facts. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Define separations between powers | ||
b. Limit the power of any given part of government | ||
c. Safeguard the rights of society | ||
d. All of the above |
a. There were not enough casualties. | ||
b. It was more a tax revolt than a revolution. | ||
c. It did not fundamentally change the social structure. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. A legal and institutional framework. | ||
b. A set of parameters for the elaboration and interpretation of law. | ||
c. A set of definitions. | ||
d. All the above |
a. Liberty, Equality and the rule of law. | ||
b. Rebellion against authority. | ||
c. Sovereignty residing in the people. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. The French Revolution. | ||
b. The Haitian Revolution. | ||
c. Both A and B | ||
d. Neither A nor B |
a. The language used in it was entirely new and radical. | ||
b. The language used in it was a forceful statement of a revolutionary break and the document was adopted by the Constitutional Congress. | ||
c. It did not constitute such a break. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. A source of raw materials and market for finished goods. | ||
b. A nuisance. | ||
c. Separate areas that interacted more directly with England than with each other. | ||
d. All the above |
a. They provided a way for people to work within the system for change. | ||
b. They served as networks through which opposition texts and manifestos were circulated. | ||
c. They were organizations that served as the basis for later militias. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. The 2nd Amendment. | ||
b. Greater power and autonomy was accorded the federal government. | ||
c. Citizenship was clearly defined. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. The breaking of British power in North America. | ||
b. The beginning of Washington's military career. | ||
c. A draining of English resources. | ||
d. British dominance of North America. |
a. Over religious doctrine | ||
b. For political dominance of North America | ||
c. Between Monarchy and Constitutionalism | ||
d. For control of trade routes |
a. The result of an abrupt end to Salutary Neglect. | ||
b. The result of legal actions by the British that the colonists considered unjust and arbitrary. | ||
c. A consequence of the nature of colonial responses to the Stamp and Townsend Act, which amounted to steps toward self-governance. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Saratoga | ||
b. Yorktown | ||
c. Guilford Courthouse | ||
d. Lexington |
a. It was not significant. | ||
b. Intended as a police action to quell dissent, it backfired and galvanized dissent. | ||
c. It was a mistake. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. With the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. | ||
b. With the adoption of the Articles of Confederation. | ||
c. With the adoption of the Constitution. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Inadequate powers were given to the central government | ||
b. Incoherent design | ||
c. Factionalism | ||
d. All of the above |
a. They are unrelated. | ||
b. Traditions of monarchical power | ||
c. Regicide | ||
d. None of the above |
a. The Crisis was a British crackdown on the American colonies in retaliation for dissent. | ||
b. The Crisis resulted from the expense of the French and Indian War, which was a considerable burden on the British crown. | ||
c. The Crisis was driven by factors unrelated to the war. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. The establishment of the Continental Congress made the break with Britain formal by setting up an alternate government. | ||
b. The establishment of the Continental Congress consolidated the political power of a new elite. | ||
c. The establishment of the Continental Congress provided a political directorate for the revolution. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. The text used the category of natural right. | ||
b. The text challenged the royal authority of the King as the ultimate source of law. | ||
c. The text claimed that a community of people could dissolve the social contract linking them to existing authority if that authority became oppressive. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Total Indifference. | ||
b. Colonial Domination. | ||
c. Salutary Neglect. | ||
d. Hegemonic Dominance. |
a. A religious minority. | ||
b. Foreign aliens. | ||
c. Equal citizens of France. | ||
d. A protected minority. |
a. Reform the Catholic Church | ||
b. Establish the Revolution as a break with the past by reimagining the order of the cosmos along new lines | ||
c. Practice christianity under a different name | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Was primarily of symbolic importance | ||
b. Indicated the end of the monarchy | ||
c. Freed hundreds of political prisoners | ||
d. All of the above |
a. A growing boredom with the whole machinery of the court that was experienced by all sides. | ||
b. Louis XVI was simply not interested in playing as active a role at court as was Louis XIV or Louis XV. He preferred more of a private life. The hold of the court over the upper aristocracy began to fray. | ||
c. The changes in relations between the King and court were not important. What mattered was the default of the bonds. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. They had alliances with the French monarchy | ||
b. They were determined to prevent the revolution from spreading | ||
c. They did not recognize the legitimacy of the revolutionaries, who were acting in the name of France. They believed that only the king could represent France. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. The nobility | ||
b. The clergy | ||
c. Anyone who is neither nobility nor clergy. | ||
d. None of the above |
a. Outlines a series of exceptions to protect the interests of the church | ||
b. Provides a list of civil rights for priests | ||
c. Asserts control over Church land and strips the clergy of their older social status. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. The end of attempts to make a constitutional monarchy in France | ||
b. A constitutional crisis | ||
c. His imprisonment | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Should guide a monarch. | ||
b. Should form the basis for a new set of laws. | ||
c. Should be spread across Europe. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Left/Right | ||
b. Vote/Abstain | ||
c. Front/Back | ||
d. None of the above |
a. The process of drawing up of the grievances was new to the people of France. | ||
b. The act of creating the lists required that people from all three estates look around and think critically about the situations in which they found themselves | ||
c. The process of drawing up the lists entailed political discussions that began a process of radicalizing the population. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. The National Assembly. | ||
b. Popular vote. | ||
c. The pope. | ||
d. The Monarch. |
a. A restive aristocracy. | ||
b. Failure to implement Turgot's political economic views. | ||
c. The lack of a centralized taxation system and increasing expense of warfare. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. They had not been called since 1614 | ||
b. They represented a basic challenge to absolutist monarchy | ||
c. They registered the magnitude of the financial crisis | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Is a statement of universal human rights | ||
b. Abolished social hierarchy based on heredity | ||
c. Is a set of general principles for government | ||
d. All of the above |
a. The Articles of Confederation | ||
b. The Bill of Rights | ||
c. The Constitution | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Democratic armies. | ||
b. Total War. | ||
c. Mobilization of the peasantry. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Terror | ||
b. Republic | ||
c. Constitutional Monarchy | ||
d. All of the above |
a. The execution of Louis XVI | ||
b. The Terror | ||
c. The war against England | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Women became equal citizens of France. | ||
b. Marriage became a civil contract between equals. | ||
c. Olympia de Gouges was tried for treason and executed. | ||
d. Women protested against the revolution. |
a. The clergy | ||
b. The nobility | ||
c. The Third Estate | ||
d. The Monarch |
a. The French monarchy's financial crisis originated with its default on payment for the bonds it issued to finance its role in the American Revolution. | ||
b. The Declaration of Independence was among the inspirations for the Declaration of the Rights Of Man. | ||
c. The American Revolution illustrated the way in which inequities in taxation were a political issue. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. It demonstrated the central importance of the game of tennis to the Revolution. | ||
b. It signaled the Assembly's willingness to defy Louis XVI's order for it to disband. His response to the Oath further eroded Louis's position. | ||
c. It was not that important. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Because the Revolution was triggered more by the implosion of the monarchy than by the actions of revolutionaries. | ||
b. Because of the speed with which events unfolded and the breadth of the social institutions impacted by them. | ||
c. Because the French Revolution is often understood as the beginning of modernity | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Control differentiation within the aristocracy and thereby keep it as a whole subordinated to the machinery of court. | ||
b. Increase personal allegiances with the King. | ||
c. Leave the King free to do things other than attend to court. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Arguing that universal rights extended to slavery and should therefore be eliminated | ||
b. Providing weapons and material support to the initial revolt | ||
c. Serving as proxies for English interests in destabilizing France and undermining the French position | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Bolivar. | ||
b. San Martin. | ||
c. Iturbide. | ||
d. Napoleon. |
a. Brazilian. | ||
b. Colombian. | ||
c. Venezuelan. | ||
d. Mexican. |
a. Free blacks | ||
b. Slaves | ||
c. All people | ||
d. None of the above |
a. A divided and contentious response, with some groups arguing that universal rights extended to slaves and others arguing that they did not. | ||
b. Universal celebration | ||
c. Consternation | ||
d. All of the above |
a. More racially segregated than that of the United States | ||
b. Less racially segregated than that of the United States | ||
c. An image of French society | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Iturbide. | ||
b. Morelos. | ||
c. Hidalgo. | ||
d. Diaz. |
a. The scale of industry in Haiti. | ||
b. High birth rates amongst slaves in Haiti. | ||
c. High mortality rates amongst slaves involved with sugar production in particular. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. A Mestizo. | ||
b. A Native born white Brazilian. | ||
c. A member of the Portuguese royal family. | ||
d. A Brazilian Army officer. |
a. Slaves | ||
b. "Free coloreds" | ||
c. Plantation owners | ||
d. Abolitionists in Haiti |
a. Equality. | ||
b. Cultural genocide. | ||
c. Reduction in status to landless peasants. | ||
d. Autonomy. |
a. Would conquer and rule Latin America. | ||
b. Respected the sovereignty of all nations. | ||
c. Saw Latin America as their sphere of influence. | ||
d. Wanted to share in European spoils. |
a. A constitutional assembly. | ||
b. His brother's rule. | ||
c. A long drawn out occupation resulting in a French defeat. | ||
d. French acquisition of Spanish colonies. |
a. It is often characterized as the catalyst that transformed simmering social tensions into a revolutionary situation. | ||
b. It was the legendary origin of the revolution because of its association with voodoo. | ||
c. While interpretations of the rebellion are divided, nonetheless historians agree that in retrospect, it was a turning point. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Anger towards the Monarchy. | ||
b. Napoleon's replacing of the Monarch. | ||
c. Independence movements in the Americas. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Technological developments and economic theory were advances in the sciences that were not directly political. | ||
b. Technological developments and economic theory reflected quite deep changes in how regular people understood and interacted with the world that had a complicated relation to revolution, one that varied place to place | ||
c. There were no relations between these three factors. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Benefits everyone equally. | ||
b. Only helps the rich. | ||
c. Enables everyone to work to their best advantage, helping society as a whole. | ||
d. Is a perfect system. |
a. Would replace capitalism. | ||
b. Would ultimately fail. | ||
c. Would be temporary until people were ready for Democracy. | ||
d. Would begin in Russia. |
a. An independent Democracy. | ||
b. The revolution being crushed in a civil war. | ||
c. Full equality for all ethnic groups. | ||
d. Two different Hungarian governments. |
a. By raising their standard of living. | ||
b. By lowering wages. | ||
c. By granting more job opportunities. | ||
d. Reducing family sizes. |
a. Large scale massacres. | ||
b. Emancipation in most countries. | ||
c. Forced religious conversion. | ||
d. Mass emigration. |
a. In France. | ||
b. in England. | ||
c. In Holland . | ||
d. All of the above, simultaneously. |
a. Agriculture. | ||
b. Transportation. | ||
c. Technology. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. James Watt. | ||
b. Thomas Newcommen. | ||
c. Thomas Savery. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. London. | ||
b. Paris. | ||
c. Vienna. | ||
d. Berlin. |
a. Enabled the expansion of capitalism through the provision of raw materials for industrial production of textiles | ||
b. Was fundamental to the English economy in general because of the expansion of trade | ||
c. Expanded the scale and reach of slavery | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Artisans | ||
b. Parliamentarians | ||
c. Artists | ||
d. The Peasantry |
a. Spreading ideas of insurrection to American cities. | ||
b. Encouraging American hubris that our system was better. | ||
c. Bringing mass emigration. |
a. The overthrow of the monarchy | ||
b. The break with tradition, which Burke saw as an accumulation of human wisdom | ||
c. The negative consequences of equality | ||
d. All of the above |
a. Were more inspired by the American than French Revolutions. | ||
b. Were heavily influenced by the French example. | ||
c. Were more an example of ethnic nationalism than true revolution. | ||
d. Were actually very hostile to the ideas of the Revolution. |
a. Burke's claims that people have no right to overthrow an existing government and frame a new one for themselves is wrong. | ||
b. Burke had no sense of the reality of the French Revolution. | ||
c. Burke relied for his information on sources opposed to the Revolution. | ||
d. All of the above |
a. European Dominance of colonies. | ||
b. Non-European countries producing raw materials. | ||
c. Europe and America selling manufactures goods to the rest of the world. | ||
d. All the above |