Chapter 25 (History 152)
the term for Spaniards or Portuguese born in the Americas during the Spanish colonial period
Criollos
Which of these German cities lies farthest to the east?
Danzig
Which region's nationalist uprising in 1821 inspired a series of similar movements across Europe for the next two decades?
Greece
Which of the following states was the first to achieve independence from European colonial rule?
Haiti
Which of the following regions includes the city of Hamburg?
Holstein
Which of these newly independent states controlled the largest territory?
Mexico
priest and leader of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810-1821
Miguel Hidalgo
French general who became the emperor of France from 1804 until his defeat by enemy European powers in 1815
Napoleon Bonaparte
The struggle for independence in Mexico began in the wake of which of the following?
Napoleon's attack on the Iberian peninsula
In which region of the colonies did the early battles of the American Revolution occur?
New England
Which territory bordered the British North American colonies to the north and west?
Quebec
Which of these cities was the last to be annexed into the national state of Italy?
Rome
Napoleon's empire began to decline when he invaded which of the following nations?
Russia
In which colony did the Battle of Camden occur?
South Carolina
The royal authority of what nation was weakened as a result of losses to Napoleon in Europe?
Spain
Which of these states was the last to achieve independence?
Venezuela
the old order of French society that consisted of three political classes
ancien regime
The American women's rights movement began
concurrent with the antislavery movement.
Between 1789 and 1791, what form of government was the National Assembly, which presided over revolutionary France?
constitutional monarchy
In its earliest forms, nationalist thought emphasized ________ links between local and regional communities.
cultural
In which of the following regions did most of the major battles of the American revolution occur?
eastern region
The ideas of the Enlightenment challenged the long-term assumptions about sovereignty and instead proposed that
governments are bound to the will of the people.
Theodor Herzl's Zionism was the direct result of
his shock at the army's persecution of Alfred Dreyfus.
Which of the following was among Napoleon's reforms?
legally making women and children subservient to male heads of households
Otto von Bismarck believed that the "great questions of the day" would be settled by
military conflict.
In which region of the Italian peninsula was Piedmont and Sardinia located?
northwest
Revolutions in Latin America were frequently a power struggle between what two groups?
peninsulares and creoles
In Italy and Germany, which forces successfully drove the process of national unification?
political leaders and elites
Embedded in the U.S. Constitution is the principle of
popular sovereignty.
In leading the revolutions of South America, Simón Bolívar advocated
popular sovereignty.
What factor ultimately allowed slave forces to overcome numerous enemies and prevail in the Haitian revolution?
superior leadership
Which revolutionary events prompted the emergence of the modern ideology of conservatism?
the French revolution
In which region of the colonies did the culminating battles of the American Revolution occur?
the South
What decision by Napoleon most fully led to the downfall of his regime?
the decision to invade Russia
What motive encouraged the Latin American struggles for independence?
the desire of criollos to supplant peninsulares as the political elite
Which of the following was NOT one of the causes of the French revolution of 1789?
the inability of the clergy and nobility to act independently of the king
Which of the following was among the reasons for the success of the slave revolt in Saint-Domingue?
the intervention of British and Spanish forces
Which of the following was an advantage the American colonists had in the Revolutionary War?
the intervention of the French
Which of the following was a characteristic of, or occurred in, France during the 1780s, before the revolution?
the summoning of the Estates General
Why did the British dramatically raise taxes on the American colonies in the mid-1760s?
to help pay for the costs of the Seven Years' War
French writer who embodied the spirit of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment
voltaire
Which of the following groups benefited LEAST from the development of Napoleonic France?
women and children
Most political liberals in the nineteenth century would be likely to advocate
written constitutions and representative government.
In what year did Chile gain its independence?
1817
Which region hosted the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805?
Austrian Empire
Which battle took place just outside of Moscow?
Battle of Borodino
Which battle saw Napoleon captured and exiled from Europe in 1815?
Battle of Waterloo
Which of these regions became part of the German empire in 1871?
Bavaria
The city of La Paz is located in which of these states?
Bolivia
Latin American term for nineteenth-century local military leaders
Caudillo
Napoleon's forces were NOT victorious against which of the following nations?
Egypt
Which region of north Africa did Napoleon attempt to conquer?
Egypt
German nationalism was furthered by military victories over which of the following nations?
France
Slave forces in Haiti overcame which of the following armies to gain their independence?
French, Spanish, and British
Under the rule of the Convention, French women
Gained property rights and the ability to a divorce
Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified Italy in the nineteenth century
Giuseppe Mazzini
How did Brazilian independence differ from that of other Latin American states?
It first became a monarchy.
Which of the following was one of the reasons that the Directory was unable to resolve the economic and military problems that plagued revolutionary France?
It lurched inconsistently from one policy to another.
eighteenth-century German philosopher known for his early nationalist thought that sang the praises of the German Volk
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
Which influential Enlightenment thinker argued for a redirection of traditional sovereign power away from rulers and toward those they governed?
John Locke
1896 book written by Theodore Hertzl advocating the creation of a Jewish state
Judenstaat
German-Austrian politician who was critical in the negotiations of the Congress of Vienna after the end of the Napoleonic wars
Klemens Von Metternich
Which body of water marked the western limit of the colony of Virginia at the time of the revolution?
Ohio River
French playwright and journalist who advocated that women and men should share equal rights during the French Revolution
Olympe de Gouges
German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united
Otto Von Bismarck
Latin American officials from Spain or Portugal
Peninsulares
Enlightenment intellectuals who sought to apply the methods of science to the improvement of society
Philosophes
From which region did the movement for Italian nationalism spread?
Piedmont-Sardinia
Hungarian Jewish journalist and author; considered by many to be the father of modern Zionism
Theodore Herzl
Which battle marked the end of hostilities during the revolution?
Yorktown
Which of these cities lay within the boundaries of Napoleon's French empire?
Zurich
Napoleon Bonaparte rose to power as
a military hero.