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After the end of the Seven Years' War

the colonists grew increasingly frustrated with British control and taxes.

On June 17th, 1789, members of the third estate seceded from the Estates General and declared themselves to be the

National Assembly.

The success of the Haitian revolution was most directly attributed to which of the following?

The high population ratio of slaves to white colonists.

The German leader Otto von Bismarck believed that the great issues of his day would be determined by

"blood and iron."

Based on the excerpt, the French people most likely were seeking to form a government whose political authority comes from which of the following?

Consent and will of the people.

The most radical period of the French revolution was reached during the leadership of

Maximilien Robespierre.

Revolutionaries of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century

argued for the necessity of popular sovereignty.

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 Mil

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 Congress of Vienna created a diplomatic order based on balance of power under the guidance of

Klemens von Metternich.

The main importance of Saint Domingue to France is most evident by which of the following

The wealth generated by plantation crops grown there

Napoleon's Civil Code

reduced patriarchal authority and gave more equality to women.

The author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen was

Olympe de Gouges.

Among the leading proponents of conservatism in the eighteenth century was

Edmund Burke.

The leader who helped lead Brazil to independence was

Emperor Pedro I.

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 most heavily by

John Locke.

Napoleon's final defeat occurred at

Waterloo.

Colonial rule in Mexico ended in 1821 when the capital was seized by

Augustín de Iturbide.

The author of the Second Treatise of Civil Government was

Locke.

The conditions that contributed most directly to the conflict described in the excerpt included all of the following except

high prices for newly imported slaves.

The organizer of the Seneca Falls conference was

Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Which of the following revolutionary leaders is NOT correctly linked with his country?

Miguel de Hidalgo and Peru.

Which of the following least reflects the role of women in the activities described in the excerpt?

Women were given full and equal rights with men.

Theodore Herzl was the founder of

the first Zionist Congress.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen also outlined government by social contract, which most strongly suggests all of the following except

abolishment of the monarchy.

The political concepts represented in the excerpt best reflect the greatest influence of which of the following?

Enlightenment ideals.

In the years leading up to the American revolution, the colonies responded to increasing British levies with the slogan

"no taxation without representation."

The cultural transformation evident in the excerpt most strongly shows a movement toward a society based on

secularism through reason.

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.

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.

The ancien régime was the

old order in France that revolutionary leaders wanted to replace.

William Wilberforce

pushed a bill through Parliament that ended the slave trade.

The leaders of the Convention hoped to hold off invading counterrevolutionary forces by

calling for the levée en masse.

The author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was

Mary Wollstonecraft.

The goal of Simón Bolívar was to

weld the former Spanish colonies of South America into a confederation like the United States.

After the publication of 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 century helped to spread Enlightenment ideals and

encouraged the consolidation of national states.

The leaders of the French Revolution

called for a complete reorganizing of French political, social, and cultural structures.

The leader who was responsible for the success of the Saint Domingue uprising was

Louverture

The only successful slave revolt in history took place in

Saint domingue

Maximilien Robespierre was known as

"the Incorruptible."

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 activities depicted in the excerpt were least likely influenced by which of the following?

Social reforms spreading across Europe.

Jean Jacques Rousseau, in his book The Social Contract,

argued that in an ideal society, the sovereign voice of government

Which of the following was NOT one of the basic ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers?

equality between women and men.

The turning point in Napoleon's empire was his disastrous 1812 invasion of

Russia.

During the rule of the Directory,

the French revolution came under more pragmatic control.

The guiding principles of the French Revolution are summed up in the phrase

"liberty, equality, fraternity."