Ch. 5 Assignment Answers
The first navigation act in England required that _______________________
All colonial exports be carried in English ships
The test act was practicing ______________, and the disabling act required officeholders to be practicing ____________________
Anglicans; Catholics
Poland was divided by which three countries?
Austria, Russia, and Prussia
Causes of the Fronde included:
Bad harvests, this content of provincial governors and officeholders encouraged by English Civil War, and a decline in grain prices
In 1487 ___________________________discovered the tip of Africa, which he called the cape of storms
Bartholomew Dias
Portugal's only colony in the New World was _____________________
Brazil
A storm, a strong current, and us with vessels helped the _________________defeat the armada in 1588
British
The English took colonies from the Dutch in later renamed them _______________ and ______________
New York and New Jersey
By excepting the petition of right, Charles I agreed to:
No taxation without Parliament consent, no one would be imprisoned without trial, and no soldiers would be quartered in homes in peacetime
In the 17th century coming Caribbean colonies were more important because of the _______________ located there
Sugar
Was responsible for presenting the gospel to the Indians:
The Catholic Church
Louis persecuted ____________________
The Huguenots
Portugal's main source of economic support came through the business of ______________
Trading
The agreement that ended the war of the Austrian succession was called the _____________
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
France was established as the strongest nation in Europe as a result of the _________________
30 years war
The three issues of the English civil wars included:
Supremacy of king or Parliament, new economic groups wanted role in government, and national church or freedom for several Protestant groups
Approximately how much did it take to build the Versailles?
100 million
England became a republic after the death of ________________
Charles
Charles V succeeded in uniting______________
Church and state
The Russians did not capture __________________
Constantinople
One of the reasons for the 30 years war was that the Catholics were ____________________________
Converting to Lutheranism and taking their lands with them
Both Louis XIV and Louis XVI ______________________
Enjoyed absolute power
The French legislative body was known as the __________________
Estates general
The second navigation act required that ______________________
Exports go to England first before continental ports
When you export more good than you import, you are said to have a _________________balance of trade
Favorable
Was brought to bankruptcy by war and extravagance:
France
Who succeeded the elector of Brandenburg in 1701?
Frederick I of Prussia
The Official language of many Royal courts was:
French
Control of the Ohio Valley was the issue of the _________________
French and Indian war
The English and French colonial rivalry climaxed with the ____________________
French and Indian war
What gold with to Spain, ________ was to France
Fur
The gunpowder plot was led by ________
Guy Fawkes
Two important developments of Charles II's reign included:
Habeas corpus act, and the Whig party in Tory party
The eastern country in which both France and England were interested was _______
India
England's first and only constitution is known as the:
Instrument of government
Real officials who are directly responsible to the king were called _______________
Intendants
The Muslim religion and military prowess are _____________
Interrelated
The commonwealth was not supported by ___________________
Ireland and Scotland
England and France but wanted to break up the monopoly of the Mediterranean trade that was controlled by which country?
Italy
Was next in line after Elizabeth died, was her cousin
James I
Established in 1607, what was the first permanent English colony?
Jamestown
Portugal was the first European nation to contact _______________ and ___________
Japan and China
In 1480, to divide the new lands between Spain and Portugal, the pope drew the first papal ________________________
Line of Demarcation
One of the features of _________________is the acquisition of more gold and silver
Mercantilism
The economic policy which included the idea that all colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country was:
Mercantilism
Frederick II turned Prussia into a _____________________state
Militaristic
Had to obey the Koran and a strict religious code; no halfway point existed in their religion:
Muslims
Charles I was supported by ___________________and _____________England
Northern; western
John Cabbot, and Italian sailor, was sent by Henry VII to the New World. What was he seeking?
Northwest passage
In the 17th century most of Italy had ________________________
Not gained its independence
This period saw the development of stringed instruments and I musical art form known as:
Opera
What was the upper class of Latin America known as?
Peninsular
When the encomienda was abandoned because of a declining Indian population, a system of ______________was formed
Peonage
Because Charles IV did not have a male heir, The ______________was signed that would allow Maria Teresa to take the Austrian throne
Pragmatic sanction
Initiated a program of exploration defined a route to the East Indies, by sailing around Africa:
Prince Henry
Established in 1608, what was the first permanent French settlement?
Quebec
Three reasons Philip II sent the Spanish Armada include:
Resented English intervention and aid to the Netherlands, wanted to return England to the Catholic church, and wanted to stop English interference with Spain's new world trade
Portugal had difficulty colonizing because they lacked:
Resources, population, and size
Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury who suppressed the Puritans?
Richard Bancroft
In searching for a Sea route to the east, England first trying to find a route around __________
Russia
Parliament was supported by ____________and ______________England
Southern; eastern
During the war of the Austrian succession, which countries sided with Prussia?
Spain and France (England sided with Austria)
When Ferdinand I became the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire control of Italy passed from ___________to _________
Spain to Austria
The Long Parliament passed the _______________, which called for parliament to meet at least once every three years
The Triennal Act
______________United England and Scotland constitutionally
The act of union
Lasted from 1672 to 1678:
The dutch war
One form wanted by the Puritans and allowed by James I was
The king James translation of the Bible
The war between the turks and the Austrians finally ended with:
The ottoman empire surrendering hungry to the Austrians
Richelieu's two goals were:
To make the king all powerful in France, and to make France supreme in Europe
Which was not a method used to raise money?
Selling kingdom land
Who was the first Englishmen to sail around the world?
Sir Francis Drake
The French settlements were ____________than the English settlements
Smaller
One of the major problems resulting in the decline of the military was that _________________
Spiritual factors were opposed
Cromwells Government failed because it never had ____________________________________
Support of the majority of England
In ____________the turks conquered most of the Balkan countries
1543
Spanish Latin America was governed by the king or the ___________________
Council of the Indies
Parliament loaded tunnage and poundage as a means of income for only one year because Parliament ___________________
Distrusted Charles
Louis XIV Believed in the _______________
Divine right of the kings
Founded in 1600, the _________________ gave effective mercantile organization to England's enterprises in India
East India Company
Died in 1603, and left no heir
Elizabeth
By circumnavigating Africa, _______________became the first year p.m. to reach the east Indies by sea.
Vasco de Gama
The war of devotion was also known as the ___________________________
War of the Spanish Netherlands
Charles V of the holy Roman empire and Charles I of Spain __________________
Were the same man
Austria was unable to gain a large empire because of the advance of Protestantism on the __________and Islam on the __________
West; east
