Chapter 22 Quiz

Patterns of Nation-States and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1750–1871
. Both the American and French Revolutions were consequences of the debt caused by the_________.

. In retaliation for the defiant actions in Boston Harbor, Britain imposed the so-called _________, also known as the "Intolerable Acts" in colonial North America, which put Massachusetts into effective bankruptcy.

. Although affirming the concept that the equality of all "men" was "self-evident," the Declaration of Independence tacitly excluded the _________of all Americans who were Black slaves and the roughly half who were women, as well as Native Americans.

. Regarding the newly independent North American republic, which of the following statements is not accurate?

. After supplying the American colonists with money, arms, and officers, in 1778-1779, in alliance with _________, France declared war on Great Britain.

. In the peace negotiations concluding the American War of Independence, France incurred _________, an obligation which it ultimately was unable to meet, thus setting in motion one of the underlying causes for the outbreak of the French Revolution.

. Members of which estate declared themselves a National Assembly in 1789?

. _____________ invented a machine which could behead a victim "painlessly", and he later changed his own name to elude association with its use.

. What created the necessary conditions for a slave rebellion on Saint-Domingue?

. ______________ eventually became strong enough to assume control of Saint-Domingue land declare the colony's independence.

. The Louisiana Purchase took place ___________ the Haitian Revolution.

. Denis Diderot's most important contribution to the Enlightenment was to edit a twenty-eight volume collection of knowledge called the _________.

. In his Social Contract, and to the consternation of French radicals, Jean-Jacques Rousseau espoused the notion that humans _________.

. In contrast to Rousseau's traditional Christian ethics, _________sought to build morality on reason and thus came to the conclusion that his morality had to be erected on the basis of the categorical imperative.

. French and British thinkers who opposed mercantilist control of the economy argued that the state should adopt a _________, or "hands-off", policy in that regard.

. The identity of the French nation, as it developed out of the French Revolution, is based in:

. Austria's Prime Minister Prince Klemens von Metternich, an opponent of constitutional nationalism, in an effort to reinstitute the right of kings and emperors to rule by divine grace, persuaded the Congress of Vienna to formulate two new principles: _________.

. The Congress of Vienna restored the French Bourbon monarchy with the coronation of King _________, the brother of Louis XVI.

. One of the results of the American Civil War was the:

. The German philosopher, ______________ asserted that all thought proceeded dialectically from the "transcendental ego" to matter and from there to the spiritualized synthesis of nature.

. For French philosopher Auguste Comte, world history was arranged into three successive stages, theological, metaphysical and scientific, the last stage representing the advances and progress ushered in by the sciences, which he saw as a positive stage. Hence Comte's philosophy's was labeled _________.

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A map of Europe shows the regions under French rule during the Napoleonic era between 1796 and 1815. In 1792, France included the present-day France. The other areas under direct French rule between 1792 and 1815 were as follows. For more than 10 years: To the northeast and to the southeast of 1792 France. 5 to 10 years: Northwestern Italy and parts of southern Europe. Less than 5 years: Western Italy, northern Europe, and the region between Spain and France. The satellite regimes were Spain, parts of Italy, Confederation of the Rhine in central Europe, and Grand Duchy of Warsaw. The major battles between 1798 and 1815 occurred in southwestern Portugal, central and southern Spain, Waterloo in 1814, Brussels, northern Italy, northern and southern Confederation of the Rhine, Vienna, Copenhagen, north of Warsaw, Alexandria, and Jerusalem.


The map above shows the Napoleonic Europe. What marked the beginning of the end for Napoleon's empire?

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Painting shows Bismarck.


Otto von Bismarck, pictured above, is considered the architect of:

. The composer Mozart, pictured below, produced music during a European intellectual movement called the ________________.


Painting shows Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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