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The author of a Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen was
Olympe de Gouges.
In response to the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
the French revolutionary leaders refused to put women's rights on their political agenda.
The revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries helped to spread Enlightenment ideals and
encouraged the consolidation of national states.
Revolutionaries of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century
focused on the necessity for popular sovereignty.
The author of the Second Treatise of Civil Government was
Locke
Which of the following was not one of John Locke's main ideas?
that although kings did have divine sanction, their subjects maintained personal rights
Which one of the following was not one of the basic ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers?
equality for women
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his Social Contract, argued that in every country the sovereign voice of government
was the members of society acting collectively.
After the end of the Seven Years' War,
the colonists grew increasingly frustrated with British control and taxes.
The main slogan for the colonies in the years leading up to the American Revolution was
"no taxation without representation."
The Declaration of Independence's contractual view of political structure in which the government drew its authority from "the consent of the governed" was influenced by
John Locke.
Which of the following was not one of the principles built into the government of the newly formed American state?
the equality of all inhabitants
The leaders of the French Revolution
called for a complete reorganizing of French political, social, and cultural structures.
The ancient régime was
the old order in France that revolutionary leaders wanted to replace.
On 17 June 1789, members of the third estate seceded from the Estates General and declared themselves to be the
National Assembly.
In August 1789, the National Assembly expressed the guiding principles of the French Revolution by issuing the
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.
The guiding principles of the French Revolution were summed up in the phrase
"liberty, equality, fraternity."
The leaders of the Convention hoped to hold off invading counterrevolutionary forces by
calling for the levée en masse.
The most radical period of the French Revolution was reached during the leadership of
Maximilien Robespierre.
Maximilien Robespierre was known as the
"Incorruptible."
During the rule of the Directory,
the French Revolution moved in a more conservative direction.
The Concordat was
the 1801 agreement between Napoleon and the pope.
Napoleon's Civil Code
affirmed the political and legal equality of all adult men.
The turning point in Napoleon's career was his disastrous 1812 invasion of
Russia
Napoleon's final defeat occurred at
Waterloo
The only successful slave revolt in history took place in
Saint-Domingue.
The leader who was responsible for the success of the Saint-Domingue uprising was
Louverture.
The creoles of Latin America were influenced by the ideals of the Enlightenment
but only wanted to displace the peninsulares and still retain their privileged positions.
Colonial rule in Mexico ended in 1821 when the capital was seized by
Augustín de Iturbide.
The goal of Simón Bolívar was to
weld the former Spanish colonies of South America into a confederation like the United States.
Which of the following revolutionary leaders is not correctly linked with his country?
Miguel de Hidalgo and Peru
The leader who helped lead Brazil to independence was
Emperor Pedro I.
What revolutionary leader, frustrated over his inability to put together a South American confederation, lamented that "those who have served the revolution have plowed the sea"?
Simón Bolívar
Among the leading proponents of conservatism in the eighteenth century was
Edmund Burke.
What nineteenth-century English thinker promoted individual freedom, universal suffrage, taxation of high personal income, and an extension of the rights of freedom and equality to women?
John Stuart Mill
William Wilberforce
pushed a bill through Parliament that ended the slave trade.
While women in France and Latin America did not win the right to vote until after the Second World War, American and British women gained the franchise
in the 1920s.
After the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1870,
twenty-two blacks were elected to Congress by 1901.
The author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women was
Mary Wollstonecraft.
The organizer of the Seneca Falls Conference was
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Theodore Herzl was the founder of
Zionism
The leading conservative politician at the Congress of Vienna was
Klemens von Metternich.
The German leader Otto von Bismarck believed that the great issues of his day would be determined by
"blood and iron."
