World History Benchmark

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The system of checks and balances in the United States Constitution was influenced by the ideas of which Enlightenment Thinker?

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Montesquieu

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What is the name of those people in an industrial economy who organize new businesses and decide what is to be produced?

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Entrepreneurs

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Three factors of production are: land, labor, and capital, need, want, and profit, manufacturing, transportation, and consumption, supply, demand, and price.

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land, labor, and capital

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The Glorious Revolution is considered a great period in British history because

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It was a change in power without bloodshed.

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Which monarch did Oliver Cromwell lead the Puritans in war against?

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Charles I

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Napoleon tried to put France back on good footing by enacting the Napoleonic Code. All of the following were parts of the code EXCEPT: He set up government run public schools, He set up a comprehensive system of laws, He established a fairer tax code, He abolished slavery.

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He abolished slavery

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What technology did Eli Whitney improve?

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Cotton Processing

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What concept was the belief in “divine right” used to support? Options: absolute rule, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, waging war for religious purposes

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absolute rule

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All 3 of our revolutions we studied can all trace their roots (their origin or where they began) back to:

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Enlightenment

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What natural resources helped make England the birthplace of the industrial revolution?

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Rivers for transportation and power, Coal and iron ore for power and metals, Natural harbors to import raw materials and export finished products.