HUMA 200 Baker After Midterm Quizzes (Spring 2025)
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Which religious group that formed a colony in the New World were SEPARATISTS from the Church of England?
The Pilgrims
Who sailed around the coast of Africa in 1498 and, with the help of a Gujarati pilot, crossed the Indian Ocean to reach Calicut?
Vasco Da Gama
Who was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
John Winthrop
After 1682, the tsars of Russia adopted a policy of Westernization as showcased in which Russian city?
St. Petersburg
What is the name of the indigenous group that Columbus first encountered in the New World?
Taino
Who was the governor of the Plymouth Colony for thirty years and wrote an account of the history of Plymouth?
William Bradford
Where did the Answer to Question 17 originate?
Scrooby
Which French monarch insisted upon "one king, one law, one faith"?
Louis XIV
What is the belief that monarchs receive their power directly from God and are responsible to no one except God?
Divine Right
Which German princess ruled over Russia with an "enlightened despotism"?
Catherine II
Who was the English King brought back for the "Restoration"?
Charles II
What is the term for Spanish colonizers/adventurers in South America?
Conquistadors
Frederick II was famous for his well-trained army, his vision of expansion, and ruling over which European state?
Prussia
Which treaty divided the “New World” between Spain and Portugal in 1492?
The Treaty of Tordesillas
Who was the commander of the Parliamentarians and later ruled over the Commonwealth?
Oliver Cromwell
Cardinal Richelieu was a powerful minister in which state?
France
Where did Austria, Prussia, and Russia partition between themselves from 1772-1795?
Poland
The Peace of Westphalia ended which conflict?
The Thirty Years War
In the Glorious Revolution, Protestant William and Mary claimed the English throne from Mary's Catholic father. Who was Mary's father?
James II
What type of government was the United Provinces of the Netherlands?
Plutocracy
Who theorized the idea of the World-Machine?
Newton
What is the practice of relying on observation and experiment?
Empiricism
Nicolaus Copernicus's Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial Bodies argued in favor of which scientific theory?
Heliocentricism
Which Queen became the joint-ruler of England along with her husband after the Glorious Revolution?
Mary II
Denis Diderot edited the first _________.
Encyclopedia
Which author had the most famous articulation of laissez-faire economics in his book, The Wealth of Nations?
Adam Smith
Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women?
Wollstonecraft
Which of the following were not key goals of the Enlightenment?
Pietism
Which king was "restored" to the throne of England during the Restoration?
Charles II
Which king converted to Catholicism but still became the head of the Anglican Church?
James II
While many European states took part in the Seven Years' War, who were the MAIN European combatants in North America?
France, Britain
Who published "Principia" in 1687?
Isaac Newton
Who said "l'etat, c'est moi" meaning literally "the state, it is me"?
Louis XIV
What was Versailles before it was the magnificent palace still famous for its opulence today?
A hunting lodge
Who dissolved Parliament and named himself the Lord Protector of England?
Oliver Cromwell
What is a "maroon" in the context of Saint Domingue?
A Runaway
During the Reign of Terror, who was the leader of the Jacobins?
Maximilien Robespierre
Although Napoleon Bonaparte's real power came from his ability to control the French army, what did he do to get the French people to endorse his seizure of the French state?
Held a Plebiscite
The seizure of power which brought Napoleon to power in France is called the "Coup of the 18th of _____."
Brumaire
Where did the Battle of Waterloo take place?
Belgium
Who was the king of France during the early years of the French Revolution?
Louis XVI
Which Haitian revolutionary took over leadership of the Revolution after Napoleon tried to re-assert power in Saint Domingue and then became the first ruler of independent Haiti?
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
What was the significance of the Napoleonic Code?
It proclaimed the equality of all adult male citizens
It spread throughout Europe and is still the foundation of laws in Italy, Holland, Latin America, and even Louisiana
It established new laws based on rationalist principles
It limited the rights of women gained in the French Revolution
Which Haitian revolutionary gathered "Free Black" revolutionaries to his side but refused the idea of letting enslaved men join his army?
Vincent Ogé
During the Wars of the Coalition, which state was the leader of the coalitions?
Britain
What was the Bastille?
A prison
Who did Napoleon send to retake control of Haiti?
General Leclerc
What was the name of the institution which held tribunals to determine who were the enemies of France and thus deserving of punishments like death by guillotine?
The Committee of Public Safety
Which Haitian revolutionary eventually sided with the French, then named himself Governor for Life, abolished slavery, and began ruling Saint Domingue as if it were not a French colony?
Toussaint Louverture
"Olympe de Gouges," the pen name of _________, wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen.
Marie Gouze
Who is the Third Estate?
Everyone who isn't a noble or a member of the clergy
True or False: Only members of the Third Estate signed the Tennis Court Oath.
False
Who invented the Spinning Jenny?
James Hargreaves
The Great Reform Bill of 1832 refers to what kind of reform?
More voting rights for the British middle classes
Whose fall from power signaled the beginning of France's Third Republic?
Napoleon III
Where was the initial conflict in the Revolutions of 1848?
France
Who was NOT in the Holy Alliance set up after 1815?
Britain
How did Mary Prince's personal account of her experiences as an enslaved person become a best-seller in England?
Prince narrated her story to a female guest at the house where Prince worked as a free woman
The Great Divergence is a historical theory about which historical event(s)?
The Industrial Revolution
The Revolutions of 1830 brought liberal Louis-Phillipe to power in which country?
France
In Mary Prince's narrative, who are the Pringles?
The family who took Prince in at the end of her narrative and treated her well as a free servant
Why was Mary Prince punished so severely for marrying Daniel James?
Prince did not receive permission from the Woods to marry.
Where did the Battle of Waterloo take place?
Belgium
Who created an “iron law of wages”?
David Ricardo
At the end of her narrative, why does Mary Prince stay in Britain and not return home to the West Indies to join her husband?
Prince is free in Britain but if she returned to the West Indies she would once more become the property of the Woods family
What was the name of the peace conference held by the European powers after the defeat of Napoleon?
Congress of Vienna
Who was Klemens von Metternich?
An important arch-conservative Austrian diplomat in post-Napoleonic Europe
How was Mary Prince able to earn a bit of money as an enslaved woman?
When the Woods travelled she took in washing and sold food to captains of ships