Unit 8, 9 review

The Enlightenment was inspired by which event?

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Middle Ages

• The Renaissance

• The Dark Ages

Which philosophies did Montesquieu create?

• Women's equality

• Social Contract

• Separation of powers and checks and balances

• Freedom of speech

What was the name of the meeting in Philadelphia to discuss the unfair British taxes?

• Estates General

• Continental Congress

• First Town Hall

• Presidential Hearing

All of the following are causes of the BOTH the French Revolution and the American Revolution except:

• In debt Monarchs

• Enlightenment ideas influencing the common people

• Growing middle class

• the takedown of the Catholic Church

What led to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor of France?

• the social and political unrest of France

• the influence of the 13 colonies fighting Britian

• the support of the Monarchy

• the issues that arose due to the Church's influence on the Monarchy

What is another name for the Third Estate?

• Clergy

• Commoners

• Nobles

• Saints

The Americans implemented the Declaration of Independence. What ideas from the Declaration influenced the French Revolution the most?

• the guarantee of basic human rights

• the right to own property

• equality for women

• the promise of social equaity

All of the following are causes of the American Revolution, except:

• the taxation of the colonists

• the overspending of the monarchy

• Censorship against Jews & Christians

• nobility has privileges not allowed for the commoners

Reorder the following timeline:

• The Reign of Terror occurs under Maximilien Robespierre

• the French Revolution occurs

• Napoleon Bonaparte is sent into exile and dies 6 years later

• Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned emperor in 1804

• Napoleon Bonaparte unsuccessfully invades Russia

What was the King's position in the Ancien Regime?

• A dictator.

• A supreme emperor.

• An absolutist monarch

• An equal of the people