World History 1st Semester Test

Jeremy Bentham believed that

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

<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

The Luddites were a

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

American leaders gathered in Philadephia in 1787 to revise

The first factories developed in what industry?

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

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

Britain passed the Navigation Acts to

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

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

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

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

The cotton gin was a machine that could

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Congress of Vienna promoted the principle of legitimacy by

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

One important results of the Estates-General was

Diderot's Encyclopedia was important because it

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

What statement best describes Voltaire's novel Candide

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

The Constitution created a federal republic, which divided power between

Abraham Darby made better quality iron by

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

Karl Marx despised capitalism because he believed that it

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

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

What changes did the Catholic Church make during the Catholic Reformation

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

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

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

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

Anabaptists believed that infants should not be baptized because

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

The poorest members of the Third Estate were

Renaissance artists reflected the new ideas of humanism was by painting

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

According to socialists, the solution to poverty and injustice was

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

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

Humanist scholars differed from medieval thinks in that humanists

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

Thomas Malthus discouraged vaccinations because

In what way were railroad an improvement over canals

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

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

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

In the scientific method a hypothesis is a

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

An enlightened despot was a ruler who

Sir Thomas Moore was executed because he

What resulted from the Peace of Augsburg in 1555?

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

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

The calulations of astronomer Johannes Kepler showed that

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

The development of steam power enabled growth of

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

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

The putting-out system was a method of

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

Physiocrats supported a government policy of

The purpose of the Council of Trent was to

Napoleon's final defeat was at the

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

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

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

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

Under the Napoleonic Code

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