World History 1st Semester Test

The Constitution created a federal republic, which divided power between

When radicals took control of the Legislative Assembly in the fall of 1792 they extended voting

The people who lived in tenements in industrial cities were part of the

After overthrowing the Directory in 1799, Napolean and his followers set up a three man govt

Elegant compositions by Handel, Haydn, & Mozart reflected a new musical style of Enlightenment

Renaissance artists reflected the new ideas of humanism was by painting

Today's Baptists, Mennonites, and Amish can all trace their religious ancestory to the

What major theme of the northern Renaissance did Durer engravings portray?

In the Declaration of Pilnitz, the king of Prussia and emperor of Austria

During the Reign of Terror, trials and executions were carried out under the authority of

What changes did the Catholic Church make during the Catholic Reformation

<div>According to Thomas Hobbes, the best form of government is</div>

Jeremy Bentham believed that

During the Industrial Revolution, life changed in what basic way?

<div>Steam became an efficient power souce because of improvements made by</div>

The inventor who perfected the microscope, who identified cells & micro organisms first

Physiocrats supported a government policy of

Diderot's Encyclopedia was important because it

One important results of the Estates-General was

In what way were railroad an improvement over canals

Who described architecture as a "social art", to combine beauty, utility for society? 

The poorest members of the Third Estate were

According to socialists, the solution to poverty and injustice was

Reign of Terror changed to the Directory phase of the revolution, the main political force was 

What form of government did the National Assembly create with the Constitution of 1791?

Which of the following best describes David Ricardo's "Iron Law of Wages?"

<div>Which act did the British impose on colonist that taxed newspapers, pamphlets?</div>

In the early 1700s, Abraham Darby's experiments led him to

Sir Thomas Moore was executed because he

The idea of seperation of powers in the Constitution was borrowed from Enlightenment thinker

Karl Marx despised capitalism because he believed that it

Napoleon's final defeat was at the

In A Vindication of the Rights of Women, M. Wollstonecraft argued that men and women both

In the scientific method a hypothesis is a

In France's old order, which of the following groups were members of the bourgeoisie?

The purpose of the Council of Trent was to

<div>Economist Smith argued that a free market, business activity would be regulated by</div>

The calulations of astronomer Johannes Kepler showed that

The National Assembly voted to pay off the huge government debt by

The Luddites were a

Laws called "factory acts" were passed in the early 1800s to

The Congress of Vienna promoted the principle of legitimacy by

The putting-out system was a method of

In the 1600s, Robert Boyle's work transformed the field of

<div>The Continental System was a form of </div>

The Swiss city state of Geneva became a model of Protestant morality under the leadership of

Which of the following was a long-term result of the Industrial Revolution?

The first factories developed in what industry?

American leaders gathered in Philadephia in 1787 to revise

Which country was able to remain outside Napoleon's European empire?

Unlike F. Bacon, R. Descartes believed that the best road to understanding was through

The battle of Saratoga marked a turning point in the American Revolution because

<div>Land enclosure in the 1600s & 1700s resulted in</div>

Participants in the Tennis Court Oath swore to continue meeting until they were able to bring

Which enlightened despot traveled among the peasants in disguise to learn about their problems?

<div>What delegate of the Estates-General broke away and formed the National Assembly</div>

Abraham Darby made better quality iron by

Which statement best describes the ideal women according to writer Baldassare Castiglione?

According to laissez-faire economists, the cure for poverty was

What resulted from the Peace of Augsburg in 1555?

The cotton gin was a machine that could

Enligtenment thinkers argued that governments purpose is to safeguard the natural rights of all

<div>In the 1700s, Britain dominated Spain in what kind of trade?</div>

What argument did gov't and church officals use to justify their war of censorship ?

Humanist scholars differed from medieval thinks in that humanists

Thomas Malthus discouraged vaccinations because

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was modeled on the

Because the American colonies were home to diverse religious and ethnic groups,

Britain passed the Navigation Acts to

What statement best describes Voltaire's novel Candide

The development of steam power enabled growth of

Under the Napoleonic Code

An enlightened despot was a ruler who

Many scholars agree that between 1450-1750 people's beliefs in both Christianity & magic led to

When the National Convention met in 1792, what form of gov't did the radical create? 

Anabaptists believed that infants should not be baptized because

Who assembled a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts preserving the works of Cirero & Homer 

German socialists formed a social democracy in the 1860s in order to transition gradually

"The greatest happiness for the greatest number" was a goal of

The slave trade contributed to the rise of industry in Britain by