AP Europe History: Chapter 9: The Enlightenment, AP Euro Chapter 10, Ap euro chapter 11

An expanding, literate public and the growing influence of secular printed materials created a new and increasingly influential social force called ________.

public opinion

Who wrote The Persian Letters?

Charles de Montesquieu

________ maintained that women were not naturally inferior to men and that women should have a wider role in society.

Charles de Montesquieu

Which of the following styles of art utilizes lavish, often lighthearted decoration with an emphasis on pastel colors and the play of light?

Rococo

Which of the following styles of art embodies a return to figurative and architectural modes drawn from the Renaissance and the ancient world?

Neoclassicism

________, who embodied enlightened absolutism more than any other monarch, forged a state that commanded the loyalty of the military, the Junker nobility, the Lutheran clergy, and a growing bureaucracy.

Frederick the Great

As part of her territorial aspirations, Catherine the Great painlessly annexed the newly independent state of ________ in 1783.

Crimea

Who believed that the intent of punishment should be to deter further crime, not to impose the will of God?

Marquis Cesare Beccaria

From where did the first imports of coffee come to supply the European coffeehouses?

from the Ottoman Empire

Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert are best known for their great work: ________.

the Encyclopedia

Baruch Spinoza inspired which of these works?

Nathan the Wise

Which philosophe is credited with a profound effect on the constitutional form of liberal democracies for more than two centuries?

Charles de Montesquieu

Smith's theory about how human society moves from barbarism to civilization is called ________.

the four-stage theory

Most European thinkers associated with the Enlightenment ________.

favored the extension of European empires across the world

Of all the rising states of the eighteenth century, ________ was the most diverse in its people and problems.

Austria

Catherine the Great of Russia ________.

built a strong alliance with the nobility

Deism reflected Enlightenment intellectual currents in ___________.

its rational approach

How did print culture contribute to the Enlightenment and the call for reform throughout Europe?

Increasing literacy and the volume of books printed encouraged the discussion of ideas about reform.

Philosophes were most direct in their attacks on Christian __________.

institutions

The Second Estate of the Estates General was made up of the ________.

nobility

Throughout the winter and spring of 1789, the high prices for ________ produced many riots.

bread

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was proclaimed by ________.

the National Constituent Assembly

The term sans-culottes was used in revolutionary France to refer to ________.

the lower middle-class

Louis XVI was condemned to death on the charge of ________.

conspiring against the liberty of the people

Which of these sparked war between France and most of the rest of Europe in 1792?

the French invasion of Belgium

Many victims of the Reign of Terror were subject to this "humane" form of execution. What was it?

Guillotine

What happened on the Ninth of Thermidor to end the Reign of Terror?

Members of the Convention to together to shout down Robespierre

The French Revolution has often been considered a victory of the ________.

bourgeoisie

Who put down the royalist rebels in October 1795 that were intensifying the food riots?

Napoleon Bonaparte

How did Louis XVI and his family try to escape Paris in June 1791?

They disguise themselves as servants

Who issued the Declaration of Pillnitz?

Emperor Leopold II of Austria and King Frederick William II of Prussia

What revenue was to back up the value of the assignats?

the sale of church property

By which of the following ways did the aristocracy attempt to limit the influence of the Third Estate?

They demanded that each estate have anequal number of representatives.

The Tennis Court Oath refers to an oath taken by the ________.

National Assembly to give France a constitution

The Roman Catholic Church ________.

condemned the French Revolution

The sans-culottes wanted, above all else, ________.

relief from food shortages and high prices

By late 1794, the French army ________.

was larger than any other in European history

The changes made to the traditional calendar illustrate which of these revolutionary policies?

De- Christianization

From where did the Thermidorians get their name?

The name came from the events of July 27, or 9 Thermidor on the revolutionary calendar, when members of the Convention shouted down Robespierre.

William Pitt's domestic policies are best seen in the light of _______.

Ideological opposition to liberal reform

Which of the following best explains the actions of Maximilien de Robespierre?

fanatical support of the republican government

The Treaty of Campo Formio took which country out of war with France?

Austria

Who was the commander who destroyed the French Fleet at Abukir in 1798?

Horatio Nelson

The Second Coalition against France was made up of__________.

Russia, Austria, the Ottoman Empire, and Britain.

Francois Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture led the uprising in ___________.

Haiti

The Declaration of Napoleon as Emperor of France was ratified by____________.

a plebiscite

In 1805, which two countries joined the British against France?

Russia and Austria

By the end of 1810, what country had withdrawn from the Continental System?

Russia

The Continental System initially extended as far east as ________________.

Russia

One of the central features of the Romantic movement in Germany was the emergence of____________.

nationalism

The Treaty of Chaumont restored this group to the French throne: the_________.

Bourbons

Following the Congress of Vienna which country gained control of Northern Italy?

Austria

Romantics were drawn to the art, literature, and architecture of___________.

Medieval Europe

The English Romantics generally react to the ideas of ________________.

the Enlightenment

The Hundred Days refers to the __________.

period of Napoleon's return from Elba before his exile to Saint Helena

What was Napoleon's objective in capturing Egypt from the Ottoman Empire?

He hoped to drive the British fleet from the Mediterranean.

What event gave Napoleon the excuse he needed to crown himself emperor?

a failed assassination attempt

Which of these resulted from the Haitian uprising?

The United States made the Louisiana Purchase

What caused the end of the Holy Roman Empire?

the formation of the Confederation of the Rhine

Jean-Jacques Rousseau laid out how to live a good life without being adversely influenced by society in _________.

Émile

In Spain, Napoleon faced________.

guerrilla warfare

The long peninsular campaign in Spain ________.

drained French strength and hastened Napoleon's eventual defeat

When Napoleon invaded Russia, ________.

the Russian forces retreated, destroying food and supplies as they went

The Organic Articles of 1802 established ________.

the supremacy of state over church.

Which of the following statements best articulates the success of the Congress of Vienna?

The congress can be credited with preventing general war for a hundred years.