AP Euro Midterm part 2
1. In the first stages of the revolutions the French established
a. A constitutional monarchy
1. The charter issued by Louis XVIII in 1814 established
a. A limited constitutional monarchy
1. The leading philosophes of the French Enlightenment shared all of the following beliefs except
a. A vision about the best form of government
1. To improve the Rural economy and lives of the peasants, Empress Maria Theresa
a. Abolished serfdom
1. Habsburg Emperor Joseph II abolished serfdom in the Austrian Empire in 1781. What was the outcome of this reform?
a. After Joseph II's death in 1790 serfdom was more or less reinstated
1. The committee on public safety was
a. An emergency executive committee appointed by the convention.
1. Opponents of the U.S. Constitution were called
a. Anti-Federalists
1. The reign of terror was directed primarily at
a. Any and all enemies of the revolution
1. The group that had the task of ridding France of any internal opposition to the revolutionary cause was the
a. Committee of public safety
1. All of the following were important trends of Enlightenment thought except
a. Criticism of government support for intellectuals, scholars, and scientists
1. Enlightened monarchs believed in all of the following except
a. Democracy
1. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen guaranteed all of the following except
a. Economic equality
1. The distinctiveness of the North American society included all of the following except
a. Economic, religious, and ethnic homogeneity
1. The group that met in 1787 to discuss tax reform in France was the
a. Estates General
1. Emperor Joseph II of Austria failed in his attempts to reform his country because he
a. Failed to win the support of the nobility
1. In general, what was Voltaire's attitude toward despotic or autocratic government?
a. He believed that an enlightened despot could be an effective reformer
1. In his essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke claimed that
a. Human development is determined by education and society
1. Catherine the Great
a. Increased the size of the Russian Empire
1. All the following were aspects on the influence of the American revolution on the French revolution except
a. Increasing the class conflict between nobility and the bourgeoisie
1. During the Reign of Terror, the dominant person on the committee of public safety was
a. Maximilien Robespierre
1. According to Olympe de Gouges
a. Men and women should be equal in the eyes of the law
1. Mary Wollstonecraft argued that
a. Men and women would benefit from sexual equality
1. The Term "Great Fear" refers to the
a. Paranoia in the countryside that fanned the flames of the rebellion in the summer o 1780
1. A striking feature of the salons was that
a. Philosophes, nobles, and member of the upper middle class intermingled
1. The primary purpose of Fontenelle's Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686) was to
a. Popularize the findings of the scientific revolution
1. Which powers participated in the partitioning of Poland in the late 18th century?
a. Prussia, Russia, and Austria
1. The Russian nobility regained power lost under Peter the Great when Cahterine the Great was forced to turn to the for help during
a. Pugachev's rebellion
1. The stamp act of 1765
a. Required residents of the British colonies in North America to pay a tax on a long list of legal documents, publications, dice, playing cards, and so on
1. The French Jacobins were
a. Revolutionary radicals
1. The French philosopher who rejected his contemporaries and whose writings influenced theh romantic movement was
a. Rousseau
1. The philosophe least in step with the principle ideas of the enlightenment was
a. Rousseau
1. The first successful revolt against Napoleon began in 1808 in
a. Spain
1. The tennis Court Oath was
a. Sworn by renegade delegates from the Estates General, most of them frim the Third estate
1. In her writings, Mary Wollstonecraft argues that
a. The liberating promise of the French Revolution must be extended to women
1. The reign of terror ended when
a. The members of the convention, afraid Robespierre would turn the Terror on them, had him arrested and executed.
1. Descartes' idea was that the world consists of two fundamental entities or substances, which we call
a. The physical and the spiritual
1. According to Adam Smith, harmony and progress would result from
a. The pursuit of self-interest in a competitive market
1. Voltaire was most outspoken and vehement in his denunciation of
a. The roman catholic church
1. In his Spirit of Laws, Montesquieu argued for
a. The separation of governmental powers
1. The participation of the common people of Paris in the revolution was initially attributable to
a. The soaring price of food
1. One major difference in election procedures for the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention was that
a. There were property requirements for voting for the Legislative Assembly, but none for the National Convention. All adult French males could legally vote for the convention
1. The battle that prevented Napoleon's planned invasion of England was
a. Trafalgar
1. Which event came first
a. War of Spanish Succession
1. The American revolution
a. Was supported by the French monarchy
1. Frederick II is considered an enlightened monarch because he
a. Wrote poetry and improved the legal and bureaucratic systems
