HIST 112 ch. 22 quiz
Had it not been for __________, the French government, on the verge of Revolution in 1789, would have been well-financed.
The debt incurred during the American War of Independence.
Bismarck's Prussia fought wars for German unification with all of the following except:
italy
__________ wrote the novel Vanity Fair, a book on the foibles of the bourgeoisie
William Makepeace Thackeray
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 an address to the National Assembly on October 10, 1789, Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin argued that:
There should be a machine that could behead people painlessly.
In its final draft, the Declaration of Independence tacitly excluded the ________ of all Americans who were black slaves.
One-fifth
Count Camillo di Cavour, the prime minister of _________, was the politician who did the most to realize Italy's unification.
Piedmont-Sardinia
The Commune of Paris was established to oppose the conservative government of:
The Third Republic
One of the results of the revolutions of 1848 was:
The election of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as president of France.
Patriotic feelings were roused in France in April 1792, when:
The government declared war on its eastern neighbors.
The US Constitution seemed to embody many of the ideals of the Enlightenment, except for:
The issue of slavery.
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.
The Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Acts were passed during the presidency of _________.
Theodore Roosevelt
Uprisings, like the one in Berlin above, broke out throughout Europe in _____.
1848
_______ 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 Luis
Toussaint Louverture, a grandson of a vassal king in ___________, had obtained his freedom in the 1770s.
Benin
As a result of the Seven Years' War, France lost Canada to ___________ .
Britain
Who wrote Gothic stories and tales as part of the Romantic movement?
Edgar Allan Poe
Louis XVI held an assembly of the ________, at Versailles to address France's financial problems.
Estates-General
Among the new countries on the map of Europe in 1871 was
Germany
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
Between 1877 and 1914, US Southern state legislatures systematically attacked African-Americans' voting rights and:
Imposed formal and informal segregation.
At the battle of Tippecanoe 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 1811.
Indiana
Had it not been for __________, the French government, on the verge of Revolution in 1789, would have been well-financed.
Indiana
Jean-Jacques Dessalines became emperor of Haiti, renaming Saint-Domingue after:
Its supposed original Taíno
What American colony did Britain try to isolate from the Continental Association after it had decided on an economic boycott of Britain?
Massachusetts
Who dispatched troops to regain Saint-Domingue for France in 1802?
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 led to the forced migration of Native Americans to:
Oklahoma
The nation-state of Italy was not fully unified until it established sovereignty over _______ in 1870.
Rome
At the time of the French Revolution, ________ was one of the richest European colonies.
Saint-Domingue
Who made up the "third estate" in France?
the peasants