The Age of Revolutions Quiz

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The Coercive Acts of 1774

closed the port of Boston.

Early French socialists focused on

economic planning.

After he was defeated at Waterloo in 1815, Napoleon was

exiled to St. Helena.

One of the first acts of the American Congress was to ban slavery in

federal territory.

Metternich's hatred of liberalism was based on his belief that liberalism

had been responsible for a generation of war.

Napoleon negotiated the Concordat of 1801 with the pope largely because

he hoped that the Catholic Church would help stabilize society and maintain order.

Plans by Napoleon to invade England were stopped by

huge French losses in the Battle of Trafalgar.

In Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke defended

inherited privileges of the aristocracy.

Napoleon's Grand Empire

inspired reactive nationalism.

The Carlsbad Decrees

instituted repressive measures in the German Confederation.

In the 1780s, over 50 percent of France's annual budget was expended on

interest payments on debt.

The Tea Act angered American colonists because

it gave a monopoly on tea to the East India Company.

The Anti-Federalists opposed the American Constitution because they thought it

made the federal government too strong.

Georges Haussmann is best remembered for

massive rebuilding projects in Paris.

The Napoleonic Code asserted two fundamental principles of the revolution, the legal equality of all male citizens, and

protection of property.

The Loyalists in the American Revolution supported

the British crown.

Russia felt obliged to modernize after it lost

the Crimean War.

The Directory continued France's foreign wars largely because

they helped alleviate domestic problems, including unemployment.

John Locke believed that a government should

work through Parliament.

Louis XVI's finance ministers proposed in 1787 that he tax what to pay the national debt?

All landed property

What transportation innovation was introduced to European cities in the 1890s?

Electric streetcars

As a result of the brutal destruction of the Paris Commune,

France formed a new national unity

In 1796 Toussaint L'Ouverture became commander of the western provinces of Saint-Domingue by supporting whose army?

French

In the American Revolution, the British used

German mercenaries.

The leader of the Red Shirts was

Giuseppe Garibaldi.

What was one of the results of the increase in population and urbanization during the eighteenth century?

Inflation grew, making it more difficult for urban people to afford food and rent.

During the Reign of Terror, the dominant person on the Committee of Public Safety was

Maximilien Robespierre.

Robespierre was the co-leader of the

Mountain.

By the late eighteenth century, European law recognized only what kinds of people as slaves?

Only Africans or people of African descent

Madame Bovary is an example of what genre of literature?

Realism

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Man was intended as a reply to

Reflections on the Revolution in France.

What kind of king was Louis XVI?

Shy and well-intentioned

In August 1791, who revolted on the island of Saint-Domingue?

Slaves

What did Britain plan to do with the money it collected from the Stamp Act that was imposed on the Americas?

Use it for defense of the colonies

Olympe de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of

Women.

Bismarck's social reforms were motivated primarily by

a. *NOT*the economic depression of the 1870s. b. his gradual shift toward liberalism. c. his fear and distrust of socialism. d. the failure of his Kulturkampf. e. humanitarian concern for the suffering of the urban poor.

What kind of government emerged in France in the aftermath of the revolution of 1848?

a. A military dictatorship led by the army's top general b. An enduring socialist government c. *NOT*A moderate democratic republic d. Six years of instability and civil war e. A conservative government led by an emperor

Austria's foreign minister, Metternich, offered what solution to Napoleon after his defeat in Russia?

a. Exile himself to the island of Elba b. *NOT*Give up non-French territory conquered under Napoleon c. Give all his political power to the National Assembly d. Abdicate his throne in favor of Louis XVII e. Unite with Austria against Britain and her colonies

In 1792, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were imprisoned and accused of

a. incompetence. b. *NOT*fraud. c. *NOT*treason. d. violating peasant rights. e. embezzlement.

France, under Napoleon,

a. saw women more politically empowered than before. b. *NOT*established a new family dynamic. c. was governed by authoritarianism. d. enjoyed a vigorous free press. e. saw the rise of three major political parties.

Unlike in England, the British American colonies did not have

an established church.

In the revolution of 1848 in France,

Louis Philippe quickly abdicated.

Charles Fourier called for the abolition of

marriage.

The Reform Bill of 1832 added how many more voters in Great Britain?

50%

The primary cause of the French Revolution of 1848 was dissatisfaction with

voting rights.


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