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.