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The British Factory Act of 1833
Frederick William I was ruler
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Frederick William I was ruler
* Prussia
* the Dutch Republic
Russia
* the Holy Roman Empire
2
The British Factory Act of 1833
eliminated child labor
prohibited women in the work force
permanently legalized child labor
limited child labor
3
Who wrote Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?
Robert Boyle
D) Thomas Hobbes
B) René Descartes
Isaac Newton
4
The Third Estate represented about what percentage of the French population?
96 percent
中 D) 53 percent
B) 23 percent
C) 78 percent 中
5
Which treaty ended the American Revolutionary War in 1783?
Treaty of London
the Treaty of Quebec
B) the Treaty of Utrecht
D) the Treaty of Paris
6
Russia began to Westernize during the reign of
Peter I
Ivan I
Catherine II
Alexander I
7
Which country held the largest overseas empire in 1650?
Spain
England
Portugal
France
8
The Habsburgs ruled
Belgium
Austria
* the Netherlands
* the Holy Roman Empire
9
The Treaty of Paris (1763) ended what conflict?
* the War of Jenkins’ Ear
the Seven Years’ War
The War of the Austrian Succession
* the War of the Spanish Succession
10
Mercantilism is fundamentally a form of
protectionism
internal tariffs
free trade
guild regulations
11
Galileo’s scientific work helped lay the foundations for which modern discipline?
D) astronomy
C) biology
physics
Calculus
12
What two countries fought in the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
Britain and France
France and Spain
Britain and the Holy Roman Empire
Spain and Britain
13
Who showed that blood circulates throughout the body?
Robert Boyle
William Harvey
Paracelsus
Galen
14
Who wrote The Wealth of Nations?
Thomas Hobbes
David Hume
John Locke
Adam Smith
15
Which of these nations came to dominate the slave trade by 1700
C) France
A) Britain
B) the Netherlands
D) Spain
16
Which of these was a French philosopher that argued that the faith was superior to reason?
René Descartes
Jean Bodin
Blaise Pascal
Cardinal Richelieu
17
Who was the main advocate of deductive reasoning?
D) René Descartes
Isaac Newton
Galileo
Francis Bacon
18
Which of these events became the center of national celebrations after 1789?
the fall of the Bastille
the execution of Louis XVI
D) the death of Marat
B) the end of the Reign of Terror
19
What was the Concordat?
D) a special economic system designed to destroy the British economy
Napoleon’s civil law code
A) Napoleon’s agreement with the Catholic Church
C) Napoleon’s agreement to end his war with England
20
Who wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844?
John Locke
Friedrich Engels
Thomas Hobbes
Karl Marx
21
Robert Boyle helped transform
astronomy to physics
alchemy to chemistry
witchcraft to medicine
astrology to astronomy
22
The Directory was a government headed by
A) five men
a consul
C) an emperor
D) the Legislative Assembly
23
Which general defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo?
the Duke of Wellington
D) General Kutuzov
Horatio Nelson
B) the Duc d’Enghien
24
Who was the most prominent leader of the Reign of Terror?
Maximilien Robespierre
B) the Marquis of Condorcet
D) Jacques-Pierre Brissot
C) Georges-Jacques Danton
25
Who was the main advocate of deductive reasoning?
D) René Descartes
B) Isaac Newton
Galileo
Francis Bacon
26
Spain and Italy began to industrialize in what period?
early 1800s
late 1700s
mid 1800s
late 1800s
27
The event that most changed the nature of the Holy Roman Empire was the
* Defenestration of Prague
War of the Spanish Succession
Thirty Years’ War
Treaty of Ryswick
28
Which two principles guided the delegates at the Congress of Vienna?
equality before the law and rational administration
the balance of power and equality before the law
dynastic legitimacy and the balance of power
the balance of power and de-Christianization
29
The Long Parliament attacked the power of
the king
* military leaders
the Puritans
France
30
What dynasty was inaugurated under James I?
* Stuart
Hanoverian
Tudor
Orange
31
The nobility are distinguished from other social groups because of their
political power
A) hereditary titles
B) great wealth
C) landholdings D)
32
Which French official played the most important role in centralizing the authority of the French monarch?
* Cardinal Richelieu
* Marie de Medici
the Duke of Sully
Cardinal Mazarin
33
The British Stamp Act of 1765
C) required the purchase of stamps for any printed item
D) required the use of stamps for any mail in the North American colonies
B) imposed taxes on British tea in all British territories
imposed taxes on British tea in the North American colonies
34
Who succeeded Cardinal Richelieu as minister to the French King?
the Duke of Sully
Cardinal Mazarin
Marie de Medici
the Duke of Guise
35
The Peninsular War involved
B) Napoleon’s war in Italy
D) Prussian attempts to conquer Italy
Napoleon’s conquest of Spain
Napoleon’s attempts to invade England
36
Who wrote Two Treatises of Government in 1690?
James I
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Jean Bodin
37
Johannes Kepler
maintained that the planets followed circular orbits
proved that the planets followed elliptical orbits
rejected the Copernican view of the cosmos
developed the concept of epicycles
38
The Middle Passage was what part of the slave trade?
B) capture
transportation to slave markets
A) the voyage across the Atlantic
D) purchase in the New World
39
In Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued for
tea boycott
protest against the Stamp Act
A democratic government
American independence
40
Which country originally claimed much of Canada, as well as the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys?
Spain
Great Britain
France
Portugal
41
<10) David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding introduced new ideas about
the nature of God
the reliability of our senses
the role of the Church
democratic institutions
42
Which of these was the dominant intellectual movement of the eighteenth century?
the Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
deism•
romanticism
43
Who was the most influential political writer during the Enlightenment?
Voltaire
Immanuel Kant
Baron de Montesquieu
Baron d’Holbach
44
women and children accounted for as much as what percentage of the labor force in the woolen industry?
C) 75 percent
25 percent
D) 100 percent
B) 50 percent
45
Deism is the belief that
all gods are the same
it is impossible to understand God
God exists but is not active in the world
God does not exist
46
In the period from 1500 to 1900, most African slaves were shipped to
the southern colonies in British North America
Brazil and the Caribbean
Canada
Argentina
47
Which of these was invented by James Hargreaves in 17677
the spinning wheel
the spinning jenny
B) to cotton gin
the water frame
48
Empiricism is based on
theorizing
faith
reasoning
observation
49
Which of these was a French philosopher that argued that faith was superior to reason?
the first English woman admitted to the English Royal Academy
an English noblewoman who wrote scientific and philosophical treatise
Irish woman accused of witchcraft in 1650
the wife of Isaac Newton who helped author his most famous work
50
Luddites opposed
child labor laws
industrialization
D) industrial capitalism
employing women in factories
51
Napoleon was forced to offer his first abdication
after allied forces took Paris in 1814
C) after his defeat at the Battle of Ulm
D) after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo
when the Russians defeated him at Moscow
52
Women factory workers were paid
as much as men
D) the same wage as children
about one-third to one-half of a man’s wages
B) about three-quarters of a man’s wages
53
Where did royal absolutism first emerge?
* France and Spain
* England and France
* England and Spain
* France and Italy
54
riding to the divine right theory, rulers received their power from
* legislatures
their faith
God
* the papacy
55
The political order of the Old Regime was based on
monarchies
the popular will
tyranny
republics
56
Because of their demand for -expanding railroads became major consumers of industrial goods.
B) coal
wood
oil
iron
57
The most famous work of Denis Diderot was
the Encyclopedia
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men
The Rights of Man
Progress of the Human Mind
58
Which of these commodities dominated the trans-Atlantic trade in the 17 and 18 centuries?
B) cotton
A) sugar
D) coffee
tobacco
59
Who headed the new French government after Napoleon’s abdication in 1814?
D) Count Talleyrand
Napoleon’s brother, Joseph
B) Napoleon’s son, the King of Rome
Louis XVIII
60
Which of these men first argued that the sun is at the center of the solar system
Saint Nicolaus
Galileo Galilei
Nicolaus Copernicus
Ptolemy
61
The author of Candide was
René Descartes
Jean Racine
John Locke
Voltaire
62
Which British naval oficer caimed the castern coast of Australia for Great Briain?
Duke of Wellington
Admiral Horatio Nelson
George Fox
C) Captain James Cook
63
Under the National Convention, the suffrage was extended in France to
D) all French citizens
B) all adults
A) all adult males
property-owning adult males
64
Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman?
the Marquis de Condorcet
Madame du Châtelet
Jean-Jacques Rousseau C)
Mary Wollstonecraft
65
Between 1680 and 1820, the English population
increased by 10 percent
quadrupled
fell by half
doubled
66
The philosophes are defined as
radical Enlightenment intellectuals
Enlightenment philosophers and writers
political philosophers
atheists of the Enlightenment period
67
The author of The Social Contract was
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Blaise Pascal
John Locke
Voltaire
68
Enclosure ended what system?
open fields
B) crop rotation
C) commercial agriculture
sheep farming
69
Which of these ruled France in the second half of the 1600s?
Louis XVI
Catherine de Médicis
Louis XIV
Henry IV
70
What were the three divisions of the Estates General?
king, the nobility, and the Church
D) the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners
C) the nobility, the bourgeoisie, and the peasants
the king, the nobility, and the commoners
71
Who founded the Quakers?
Roger Williams
John Winthrop
George Fox
John Stuart
72
Which political theorist inspired the Declaration of Independence?
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Locke
Hume