Chapter 22: Revolution in the Transatlantic World

A22 Which of the following is an accurate description of the sans-culottes?

They were mainly shopkeepers, artisans, wage earners, and factory workers.

22.4 Why did slavery continue and expand in certain parts of the transatlantic world even though it was abolished in 1883?

World demand for the products of some of these regions made the slave system economically viable.

22.4 The horrors of the slave trade caught the public's attention in 1783 when the captain of the slave ship ________ threw more than 130 slaves overboard in order to collect insurance.

Zong

22.2 The French Constitution of 1791 established a(n) ________.

constitutional monarchy

22.3 Native-born Spaniards who emigrated from Spain to settle in the Spanish colonies were called ________.

peninsulares

22.4 Enlightenment ethical thinking encouraged reformers to work against slavery because it made them believe that by doing so they would __________.

realize their own highest moral character

22.1 The political ideas of the American colonists had largely arisen from the ________.

struggle of English aristocrats and gentry against the absolutism of the Stuart monarchs

22.2 The 'Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen' proclaimed ________.

that all men were born free and equal with natural rights to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression

A22 What ended Spain's efforts to retain its American empire?

the defeat of Spanish royalist forces at the hands of Bolívar troops in Peru

A22 What was the British Parliament's main motive behind passing Wilberforce's prohibition on slave trading from any British port?

to protect the planters of the older British West Indies islands from competition from newly acquired French islands that required slave labor

22.1 The series of British political writers who held republican political ideas that stemmed from the radical branches of the Puritan revolution were the ________.

Commonwealthmen

A22 The conservative document that provided for a French bicameral legislative government dedicated to protecting the rights of property owners was the ________.

Constitution of the Year III

A22 What was one of the provisions of the Treaty of Chaumont?

It restored the Bourbons to the French throne and returned France to its 1792 frontiers.

22.2 The radical republican party during the French Revolution was the ________.

Jacobins

22.2 What happened in response to the Great Fear?

Liberal nobles surrendered their special rights and exemptions.

22.2 Who appointed several different ministers to deal with the financial crisis that emerged after the Seven Years' War?

Louis XVI

22.3 Why were creoles deprived of opportunity after the Spanish Empire returned to the direct control of Spain?

Many peninsulares went to the New World to fill newly created posts.

A22 Which of the following led to what is usually called the second revolution?

France's war with Austria

A22 Bonaparte did not want anyone to think that his authority depended on the approval of the church. What did he do to assert this notion?

He crowned himself during his coronation

22.3 What was the significance of the Haitian Revolution?

It demonstrated that slaves of African origins could lead a successful revolt against white masters and mulatto freemen.

A22 What led Britain to declare war on France in 1803?

Napoleon's military interventions

A22 The period between the summer of 1793 and the end of July 1794, when the French revolutionary state used executions and violence to defend the Revolution and suppress its alleged internal enemies, is known as the __________.

Reign of Terror

22.1 Which of the following was passed by the British Parliament in 1765 as a tax on legal documents and other items?

Stamp Act

A22 Which act was repealed by the Parliament in 1766 following objections by American colonists?

Stamp Act

22.1 The British drive for revenue began in 1764 with the_______

Sugar Act

A22 How had the War of the American Revolution widened into a European conflict?

The French government came to the aid of the colonies.

22.3 Which of the following was a goal of the creoles in their search for political independence from Spain and Portugal?

They wanted to retain their social and economic privileges.

22.1 Why did the Boston Tea Party occur?

The Parliament had levied a tea tax without the colonists' consent

A22 The first region to assert its independence from Spain was ________.

The Rio de la Plata

22.4 Why did the Quakers take action against the whole system of slavery?

They believed that the presence of the evil of slavery explained their economic hardship and other difficulties.

A22 Which of the following treaties recognized the independence of thirteen American colonies in 1783?

Treaty of Paris

A22 How did the British ministry of Lord North assert the authority of Parliament over the colonies?

by reorganizing the government of Massachusetts

A22 After the Constitution was adopted in 1788, which of the following rights was added to the Bill of Rights to protect civil liberties?

equality of white male citizens

22.4 When was the right of British subjects to hold slaves abolished?

following the passage of the Reform Bill in Great Britain

22.3 What led Napoleon to capture L'Ouverture?

his fear that the success of the rebellion led by L'Ouverture would undermine French authority elsewhere