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“All knowledge comes through experience” expresses which philosophy?

Empiricism

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Edward Jenner Developed ______ that has nearly taken out smallpox.

Vaccines

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What group of countries organized against France during the War of the Spanish Succession?

Grand Alliance

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In the years before the American Revolution, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act and Tea Acts in order to

raise money to pay off debts from the French and Indian War

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The eighteenth-century intellectual movement is known as the

Enlightenment.

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Which Enlightenment philosopher believed so muh in freedoms of speech and religion that he declared, “I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to my death your right to say it.”

Voltaire

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Which revolution was caused by the following factors?

-Financial crisis

-Enlightenment ideas

-Tax burden on the Third Estate

-Inspiration from the Declaration of Independence

French Revolution

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Civil authority for the Plymouth Colony was established by the

Mayflower Compact

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Reasoning from a simple premise to a more complex truth is called what?

Deductive Reasoning

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The Declaration of Independence (America) and The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (France) were similar because both documents suggested that

the government should protect the rights of citizens

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Which 1789 French document lists the national rights of all people and the rights possessed by citizens?

Declaration of the Rights of Man

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"In every kingdom, the king's power comes directly from God, to whom the ruler is accountable; power does not come to the king from the people and he is not accountable to them." This excerpt best reflects the concept of

divine right.

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Napoleon’s accomplishments included all of the following except:

a. peace treaties with Austria and Britain

b. the establishment of a republic

c. the creation of the Bank of France

d. the restoration of certain privileges to the Roman Catholic Church

the establishment of a republic.

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The leading absolutist nation in Europe during the seventeenth century was which of the following?

France

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What was the name of the government Napoleon established after the Directory?

Consulate

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What was the religion of the Age of Reason?

deism

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Popular sovereignty is government by

the consent of the governed.

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What term is defined as giving specific powers to the national government while reserving all other powers for the states?

federalism

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Which of the following was NOT a Russian ruler?

a. Frederick ll

b. Catherine the Great

c. Ivan the Terrible

d. Peter the Great

Frederick ll

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The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century exaltation of reason is known as the

Age of Reason

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The revocation of the Edict of Nantes resulted in the

end of Protestant coexistence in France

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Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century kings increased their royal power by doing all the following except

a. decreasing the size of the army

b. exerting control of the church

c. increasing the size of their territory

d. increasing the size of government bureaucracy

decreasing the size of the army

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On July 4, 1776, which document was adopted by the colonists?

Declaration of Independence

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Which event symbolized the downfall of the Old Regime?

the storming of Bastille

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From what country did most philosophes come?

France

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What is not true concerning laws imposed by Parliament between 1763 and 1774?

The colonists obeyed without protesting

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The belief that sees reason as the only sure source of knowledge and truth is known as

rationalsim

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Which German astronomer said that the orbits of planets are elliptical?

Kepler

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The Glorious Revolution caused which monarch(s) to lose the throne?

James ll

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Which war was also called the French and Indian War?

Seven Years’ War

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The writings of the 18th-century philosophes Locke, Rousseau, and Voltaire influenced the

patriots in America to justify their revolution

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Which of the following is not associated with John Locke?

a. Empiricism

b. natural rights

c. separation of powers

d. blank tablet

separation of powers

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Which of the following was not a Pietist?

a. Phillip Spener

b. John Wesley

c. August Francke

d. Nicholas von Zinzerdorf

John Wesley

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During the eighteenth century in France, few people enjoyed the rights of life, liberty, and personal property because

ecclesiastical and political absolutism was the order of the day.

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Who laid the foundation for absolutism in France?

Henry lV

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What is the eighteenth-century American revival called?

Great Awakening

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What is reasoning from specific cases to a general conclusion called?

Inductive Reasoning

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What title was taken by Ivan IV and passed on to future Russian rulers?

czar

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Which of the following preachers never preached in America?

a. George Whitefield

b. Jonathan Edwards

c. August Francke

d. John Wesley

August Francke

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The Continental System was designed to

open trade to England

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The Diplomatic Revolution took place when

France and Austria allied during the Seven Years’ War

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Oliver Cromwell took the title of

Lord Protector

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What German religious movement arose in the seventeenth century?

Methodism

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Who proposed the heliocentric theory?

Copernicus

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Louis XIV's palace at Versailles is a good example that the king

used the nation’s wealth to glorify himself and not the French people

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The purpose of the Reign of Terror was to get rid of

peasants who attacked nobles

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A common goal of Peter the Great of Russia and Louis XIV of France was to

maintain absolute power

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Which war was the last great religious war in Europe?

Thirty Years’ War

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Which of the following is not true concerning the eighteenth-century philosophes?

They respected church tradition

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What country practiced a scorched-earth policy?

Russia

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What group in France did Richelieu view as a danger to the state?

Huguenots

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What artistic age spanning from 1600 to 1750 is characterized by its grand, heroic, sensual, and emotional style?

the baroque age

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The framers of the U.S. Constitution borrowed which idea from Montesquieu?

separation of powers

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Which nation came out of the Thirty Years' War the strongest?

France

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The English kings were limited in power by the

Parliament’s control of taxes

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The chief obstacle to Napoleon’s conquering Europe was

Bratain

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What document did Charles I sign in order to obtain more funds from Parliament?

Petition of Right

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Who won the Thirty Years' War?

France and the Protestants

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In which country was absolutism defeated?

England

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Which Enlightenment philosopher believed in limited government and argued that government power comes from the "consent of the governed"?

John Locke

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Which of the following was not a goal of Peter the Great?

a. greater control of the Russian Orthodox Church

b. introduction of censorship

c. westernization and modernization

introduction of censorship

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The Tennis Court Oath declared that the delegates of the Third Estate would not disband until

a written constitution was established

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Which group did not belong to the Third Estate in France?

a. priests

b. doctors

c. peasants

d. city workers

priests

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What philosophy says that everything is part of one great substance called “god”?

Pantheism

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European nations signed the Pragmatic Sanction to allow

Maria Theresa to rule in peace

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The Old Regime refers to the

political and social order before the French Revolution

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Which answer choice correctly places major events in English history in chronological order?

a. the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the Restoration

b. the Glorious Revolution, the Restoration, the English Civil war

c. the Restoration, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution

d. the English Civil War, the Restoration, the Glorious Revolution

the English Civil War, the Restoration, the Glorious Revolution