AP Euro Unit 2 Pt I

17th-century absolutism and constitutionalism were political responses to

• Louis XIV's attempts to conquer western Europe.

• the fear of disorder and breakdown that was the legacy of the Wars of Religion.

• the rise of the middle classes, who threatened to seize power from monarchs and aristocrats.

• the Catholic church's renewed efforts to assert its control over northern Germany.

When Louis XIV assumed direct control as king of France, one of his first goals was to

• make a good marriage alliance.

• rein in France's unruly nobles.

• redistribute the tax burden.

• reactivate the parlements.

Louis XIV persecuted the Jansenists, driving them underground, because they

• were leaders of and underground constitutionalist movement.

• criticized his lavish and self-indulgent life.

• were sworn to put loyalty to the pope ahead of all other loyalties.

• followed individual conscience before official church demands.

Which of the following does NOT accurately describe mercantilist policies?

• extending a state's borders at the expense of it neighbors

• promoting a single religion for all territories and provinces

• granting manufacturing and trade monolopies

• encouraging settlement in colonial territories

In exchange for allowing him to collect taxes, Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia gave his nobles

• complete control over their enserfed peasants and exemption from taxes.

• exemption from all military and civil service.

• a monopoly on foreign trade.

• representative assemblies called estates.

For nearly 150 years, the Austrian Hapsburgs and the Ottoman Turks fought over

• Italy.

• Hungary.

• Lithuania.

• Spain.

The Code of 1649 was critical in Russia's political and social development because it

• rejected Catholicism in favor of strict adherence to Greek Orthodox beliefs.

• opened civil service positions to people on the basis of merit, not family connections.

• impeded social change by imposing a fixed, inherited, and hierarchical social structure.

• reduced the domestic power of the nobles in exchange for lucrative foreign campaigns.

Polish constitutionalism undermined rather than strengthened the state because

• nobles who sat in the parliament were easily corrupted by Russian bribes.

• the presence of religious and ethnic factions prevented an effective majority from forming.

• elections proved so expensive that candidates were often bankrupted.

• a single negative vote in the legislature acted as a veto.

Which of the following does NOT accurately describe a cause of the English Civil War between Charles I and Parliament?

• Charles I's failure to grant sufficient income to members of Parliament

• Charles I's use of the Court of the Star Chamber

• Charles I's refusal to call Parliament into session for eleven years

• Charles I's attempt to arrest members of Parliament who moved to curb his power

Which of the following did NOT play a role in England's civil war between 1642 and 1646?

• Cavaliers

• Independents

• Roundheads

• Quakers