Ch. 22

_______ published his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in 1776

Adam Smith

The machine accepted by the French Assembly for use in executions was designed by _________.

Antoine Louis

Toussaint Louverture, a grandson of a vassal king in ___________, had obtained his freedom in the 1770s.

Benin

The successor of Louis XVIII of France, __________, took the extreme course of restoring the property of the aristocracy lost during the Revolution.

Charles X

In retaliation for the defiant actions in Boston Harbor, Britain imposed the so-called _________, also known as the "Intolerable Acts" in colonial North America, which put Massachusetts into effective bankruptcy.

Coercive Acts

_____________ invented a machine which could behead a victim "painlessly", and he later changed his own name to elude association with its use.

Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin

Denis Diderot's most important contribution to the Enlightenment was to assemble all the latest scientific and philosophical thinking into the _________.

Encyclopédie

Between 1877 and 1914, US Southern state legislatures systematically attacked African-Americans' rights in respect to all of the following except:

Federal attempts to integrate schools

The 1789 "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" was issued in which country?

France

The most systematic of the so-called idealist philosophers in Germany, ______________ asserted that all thought proceeded dialectically from the "transcendental ego" to matter and from there to the spiritualized synthesis of nature.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The ethnolinguistic version of the Enlightenment inspired by Johann Gottfried Herder was:

Given a major boost during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars

The revolution in _________ is clearly the one that realized the Enlightenment principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity most fully.

Haiti

After achieving independence, the ________ elevated their spoken language, Kreyòl, into their national identity.

Haitians

Had it not been for __________, the French government, on the verge of Revolution in 1789, would have been well-financed.

Its debt, used to finance the Seven Years' and American Revolutionary Wars.

Louverture became emperor of Haiti, renaming Saint-Domingue after:

Its supposed original Taíno

The Congress of Vienna restored the French Bourbon monarchy with the coronation of King _________, the brother of Louis XVI.

Louis XVIII

The United States faced the vital question of how to incorporate new territory after its war with _________ from 1846 to 1848.

Mexico

Fury resulted from a 1791 decision by the white settler Provincial Assembly in Saint-Domingue to:

Not grant citizen rights to mulattos whose parents were free

Count Camillo di Cavour, the prime minister of _________, was the politician who did the most to realize Italy's unification.

Piedmont-Sardinia

The nation-state of Italy was not fully unified until it established sovereignty over _______ in 1870.

Rome

One of the results of the revolutions of 1848 was:

The election of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as president of France.

The Stamp Act of 1765 paid for:

The quartering of troops in the colonies in order to enforce the new taxes.

Among the causes espoused by the Paris Commune of 1871 was:

The separation of church and state and a confiscation of church properties.

Who or what was Olympe de Gouges?

a French Revolutionary feminist

The Louisiana Purchase took place ___________ the Haitian Revolution.

during

In his Social Contract, and to the consternation of French radicals, Jean-Jacques Rousseau espoused the notion that humans _________.

had suffered a steady decline from their "natural" state ever since civilization began and imposed its own external authority on them

Although affirming the concept that the equality of all "men" was "self-evident," the Declaration of Independence tacitly excluded the _________ of all Americans who were Black slaves and the roughly half who were women, as well as Native Americans.

one-fifth

__________ wrote the novel Vanity Fair, a book on bourgeois human foibles and peccadilloes.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Acts were passed during the presidency of _________.

Theodore Roosevelt

Building on the philosophical assumption of the material state of nature, the so-called physiocrats argued that freedom and equality should be the standard economic principles and that the state should adopt a _________, or "hands-off", policy in that regard.

"laissez-faire"

In Tippecanoe, a newly founded town in _________, thousands of Tecumseh's followers from a variety of Native American nations came together, but they suffered a defeat at the hands of US troops in 1812.

Indiana

In response to the "Boston Tea Party", Britain closed the harbor, demanded restitution, and passed the so-called Coercive Acts (called the "_______ Acts" in the American colonies).

Intolerable

In its final draft, the Declaration of Independence tacitly excluded the ________ of all Americans who were black slaves.

One-fifth

In the course of his unification of Germany, Bismarck launched wars against all of the following countries except:

Russia

Both the American and French Revolutions were outgrowths of the _________ and the later Enlightenment.

Seven Years' War