Age of Revolution Review

    Which of the following British laws imposed taxes on such items as newspapers and pamphlets in the American colonies? 

• Declaratory Act

• Navigation Act

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

The Treaty of Paris in 1783 granted the Americans control of

• the Western Territory from the Appalachians to the Mississippi.

• the eastern seaboard from Canada to Florida.

• the entire continent of North America.

• a little beyond the land that made up the original 13 colonies.

Which economic plan, which might have helped prevent the French Revolution, was dismissed by the government of Louis XVI?

• taxation of the Third Estate

• abolition of internal tariffs

• mercantilism

• taxation of the First Estate

What is one way that the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was similar to the Declaration of Independence?

• It was based on the principle that all people had equal political rights.

• It established a two-house legislature.

• It abolished monarchy and set up a republic.

• It affirmed that the function of government was to protect individual rights.

“Terror is only justice prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.”—Maximilien Robespierre, 1794

The viewpoint expressed in this quotation was most directly put into action through the

• corvée.

• guillotine.

• Napoleonic Code.

• Constitution of 1795.

“General Famine and General Winter, rather than Russian bullets, have conquered the Grand Army.”—French general Michel Ney

What was an immediate result of the event described in the above quotation?

• Napoleon's enemies renewed their fight against France.

• Napoleon surrendered and was sent into exile.

• The French monarchy was restored to power.

• Napoleon established the Continental System.

What is most likely the reason this engraving by Paul Revere of the Boston Massacre inflamed public opinion against the British?

• It shows the colonists firing on the soldiers.

• It shows that the colonists provoked the British soldiers.

• It shows the colonists as unarmed victims of an attack.

• It shows the colonists are outnumbered.

Which statement best describes the concept of popular sovereignty?

• Government power should be divided between individual states and a federal government.

• All government power ultimately derives from the consent of the people being governed.

• The authority to rule comes directly from God.

• All people are born with natural rights that cannot be taken away.

Which group in France would have been most likely to support the Reign of Terror?

• emigres

• the National Assembly

• the First Estate

• sans-culottes

How did the Directory's actions ultimately lead to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte?

• The Directory was weak and corrupt.

• The Directory had supported the Reign of Terror.

• The Directory was well regarded by the population.

• The Directory wanted to restore the monarchy.