World History Spring 2023 Semester Exam Review

The American Revolution and the French Revolution both supported

• increased citizen participation in government

• the appointment of a dictatorship to restore order

Which of the following identifies one way in which Enlightenment ideas influenced the American Revolution?

• American revolutionaries supported a strong Presidency to maintain social order and peace.

• American revolutionaries believed people had a right to change an unjust government

How did the American and French Revolutions differ?

• Americans cut their ties to a distant monarch; the French overthrew their monarch at home.

• The American Revolution led to violence and warfare; the French Revolution was peaceful and orderly.

Which Estate is represented by the man in chains in the cartoon?

• First

• Second

• Third

• Holy

Simon Bolivar and Toussaint Louverture were important individuals in Latin American history because they were

• Leaders for independence

• Influential Enlightenment thinkers

The Magna Carta (1215) and the English Bill of Rights (1689) influenced the Constitution and The Bill of Rights

• True

• False

What was the immediate cause (spark) of World War I in Europe?

• Assassination of the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

• Sinking of the British passenger liner, Lusitania.

The Cold War was from

• 1945-1990

• 1939-1945

What traditional popular foreign policy was being practiced by Woodrow Wilson over the first three years of World War I?   

• Interventionism and multi-nationalism

• Isolation and neutrality

WWI was also known as

• The War to End All Wars

• The Kaiser War