World History midterm review pt.1

The Edict of Nantes (1598) guaranteed:

• freedom of conscience and political rights to all Catholics.

• freedom of conscience and political rights to all Protestants.

• freedom of speech to all Calvinists.

The exchange of plants, animals, ideas, and disease is known as the ___________.

• Christopher Columbus Exchange

• Old World Exchange

• New World Exchange

• Columbian Exchange

What three areas did the Atlantic Slave Trade connect?

• Europe, Africa, and Asia

• Europe, Africa, and the Americas

• The Americas, Africa, and Asia

• Australia, Europe, and the Americas

One of the negative effects of the Columbian Exchange on the native people was...

• Decline in wealth

• Disease

• Weapons

• New crops

What was the Middle Passage?

• Transport of raw goods to Europe.

• Transport of finished products to Africa & the Americas

• Transport of slaves to the Americas.

• The middle lane on the freeway

The English Bill of Rights

• created a constitutional monarchy.

• resolved all of England's seventeenth-century religious questions.

• reaffirmed the divine-right theory of kingship while limiting the king's power.

• confirmed the king's right to raise standing armies without parliamentary consent.

Louis XIV restructured the policy-making machinery of the French government by

• requiring nobles to live at Versailles while excluding them from real political power.

• filling the royal council with his supporters.

• requiring Huguenots convert to Catholicism, leave France or be punished.

• all of these are correct.

During the reign of Charles I of England, (mark all which are correct)

• the English Civil War occurred.

• Oliver Cromwell emerged as the new military leader.

• Parliament was dissolved.

• he was so well liked that his monarchy became known as the Restoration.

The economic theory based on a country's ability to export more goods than import which contributed to the rise of absolutism was

• capitalism.

• laissez faire economics.

• mercantilism.

• socialism.

Absolutism means

• the real power in any state must be religious and exercised by the church.

• ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right.

• subordinate powers have an absolute right to advise the king on conducting the affairs of state.

• no matter how humble, male citizens have an absolute right to participate in politics.