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Question #1
In the Americas, the Seven Years' War was a border dispute between the colonies of what two countries?
A.   Portugal and the Netherlands
B.   Britain and France
C.   England and Prussia
D.   Spain and Portugal
Question #2
What did eighteenth-century reformers believe about the rule of monarchs?
A.   It should be constrained by the will of the people.
B.   It should be completely abolished in favor of democracy.
C.   It should be open to debates among the wealthy.
D.   It could be limitless as long as it was benevolent.
Question #3
Spaniards, Creoles, and Indian nobles joined forces to defeat who in 1780?
A.   Túpac Amaru II
B.   The Cabildos
C.   Toussaint L'Ouverture
D.   Simon Bolivar
Question #4
Why did the Antifederalists oppose the American Constitution?
A.   They thought it granted too much power to the states.
B.   They thought it prohibited a standing army.
C.   They thought it instituted too many taxes.
D.   They thought it made the federal government too strong.
Question #5
Why did civil war break out in Saint-Domingue in 1799?
A.   White elites invited the Spanish army to help defeat the freed slaves.
B.   Tensions between freed slaves and free people of color created the conflict.
C.   Freed slaves allied with slaves from other islands to defeat colonists.
D.   White elites received reinforcements and moved against the freed slaves.
Question #6
How can France be described politically under Napoleon?
A.   It allowed freedom of speech and the press.
B.   It gave women more political power than ever before.
C.   It was governed by authoritarianism.
D.   It saw the rise of three major political parties.
Question #7
What was one of the special privileges enjoyed by European nobility in the eighteenth century?
A.   They had a monopoly on road tariffs.
B.   They were given the right to purchase titles.
C.   They could take control of a guild of their choosing.
D.   They were given an exemption from taxes.
Question #8
The Napoleonic Code asserted two fundamental principles of the revolution, the legal equality of all male citizens and what else?
A.   Equality of women
B.   Universal suffrage
C.   Absolute protection of wealth and property
D.   A strong military
Question #9
Why did the Directory continue to support France's military expansion?
A.   The wars helped to alleviate domestic economic problems, including unemployment.
B.   They feared the army would turn against them if it was recalled.
C.   They hoped to spread republican revolution throughout Europe.
D.   They feared a coup d'état if they made peace.
Question #10
Why did Louis XVI's finance minister want the king to call an assembly of notables in 1787?
A.   To draft a plan to reform French agriculture
B.   To gain support for war with Britain
C.   To draft a plan to reform the monarchy
D.   To gain support for fiscal reforms
Question #11
Who wrote Common Sense?
A.   Thomas Paine
B.   John Locke
C.   Benjamin Franklin
D.   John Adams
Question #12
Why did European kings initially welcome the French Revolution?
A.   It weakened France, which they saw as a competing power.
B.   They had hopes for liberal reforms.
C.   They hoped that it would scare their peasants.
D.   They hoped it would spread to England and weaken it.
Question #13
On August 27, 1789, the National Assembly issued a statement of principles known as which of the following?
A.   The Social Contract
B.   The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
C.   The Articles of Principles
D.   The Great Charter
Question #14
In 1778, rebels in the American War of Independence made a formal alliance with what European country?
A.   France
B.   Russia
C.   Portugal
D.   Spain
Question #15
Which of the following did the British use to assist their efforts in the American Revolution?
A.   Offers of a compromise
B.   Terror tactics
C.   Mass extermination
D.   German mercenaries
Question #16
What is true about the relationship between the Creoles and the peninsulares in Latin America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
A.   The Creoles resented the economic and political dominance of the peninsulares.
B.   The two groups joined forces against the Indians and mestizos.
C.   Both competed for favors from Spain.
D.   The peninsulares tried to woo the Creoles into an alliance.
Question #17
What was the Estates General?
A.   The French legislative assembly
B.   The annual assembly of nobility
C.   A meeting of the men who held large estates
D.   An assembly of commoners held in Paris every five years

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