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Chapter 22 Quiz B with Explanations
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In the late seventeenth century, John Locke proposed that government should be
a compact between church and state.
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under the control of an absolute monarchy.
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decentralized and in the hands of local noblemen.
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a contract between the ruler and his subjects.
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What was the main theme of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's eighteenth-century novel Emile?
How to create the model citizen
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How to end corrupt government
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How to advance in the aristocracy
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How to have a religiously tolerant society
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What did Olympe de Gouges argue in her 1788 essay, "Reflections on Negroes"?
African slaves should be freed based on natural rights.
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People should not be differentiated due to skin color.
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African slavery was a necessary evil for the advancement of Europe.
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Slaves should be educated to increase productivity.
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The eighteenth-century Russian ruler Catherine the Great was influenced by the Enlightenment to
establish a constitutional monarchy.
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end oppression and enslavement of the serfs.
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actively involve the nobility in the governance of the empire.
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seek guidance from the Prussian king Frederick the Great.
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Pugachev drew upon the discontent of which group during his rebellion of 1773?
Serfs
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Military officers
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Aristocrats
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Native Siberians
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The North American colonists used the arguments of which Enlightenment thinker to justify their rebellion in the eighteenth century?
Voltaire
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Montesquieu
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Denis Diderot
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John Locke
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What led Americans to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new constitution in 1789?
The articles left the chief executive with too much authority.
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The articles left the central government with little power.
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The articles favored the southern colonies over the northern ones.
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The articles banned the practice of slavery, which hurt the economy.
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After the failure of negotiations at the Estates-General of 1789, which group broke away and formed a National Assembly representing the citizens of France?
Representatives of the nobility and the church
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Representatives of the commoners and the church
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Representatives of the middle classes and commoners
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Representatives of the middle class and monarchy
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Influenced by the ideals of the French Revolution, Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft argued for
greater rights for women.
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a peaceful solution to class conflict.
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the establishment of secular educational institutions.
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the end of aristocratic privilege around the world.
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Who initiated the last phase of the French Revolution by establishing a dictatorial regime at the end of the eighteenth century?
Louis XVI
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Maximilian Robespierre
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Simon Bolivar
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The collapse of Napoleon's empire started with his decision to invade which country in 1812?
Russia
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Spain
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Britain
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Austria
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What characterized Muhammad Ali's ambitions for Egypt after becoming viceroy in 1805?
He wanted to plunder Egypt of its ancient treasures
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He sought to turn Egypt into a conservative Islamic state.
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He wanted to make Egypt the most powerful state in the Mediterranean.
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He sought to modernize Egypt utilizing European advisors.
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What action by the French revolutionary government in 1794 led to upheaval in the Caribbean and Latin America?
The execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
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The declaration of war on Spain and Portugal
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The recognition of racial equality
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The offer of financial assistance to all slaves who rebelled
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What was the basis of support for Father Miguel Hidalgo's rebellion in Mexico against colonial rule?
Native American day laborers
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Creoles
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The Catholic priesthood
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Underpaid Spanish soldiers
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What factory was instrumental in the final drive for Mexican independence in the early nineteenth century?
The Spanish colonial government had collapsed after Napoleon's invasion of Spain.
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The mulattos and the mestizos were able to unite their scattered armies.
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The United States
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Rebel leaders were able to unite the various peoples of Mexico by appealing to a nationalist sentiment.
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In the period after the French Revolution, conservatives believed that the most effective type of government was a
republic.
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dictatorship.
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monarchy.
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democracy.
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Romantic nationalism, which emerged after the French Revolution, emphasized
language and traditions as sources for a common identity.
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the importance of Rousseau's idea of general will.
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the importance of Enlightenment thought.
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the transformative power of the Napoleonic period.
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What did Muhammad ibn Abd Al-Wahhab find wrong with Islam as practiced in eighteenth-century Arabia?
It did not follow the practices set forth by the Ottoman caliph in Istanbul.
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It deviated from its strict sense of monotheism to overemphasize Muslim saints and the Prophet Muhammad.
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It did not place enough emphasis on pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
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It had allowed too many elements found in Shi'a Islam to enter into common practice.
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