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

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