Topic 3 Study Guide

Which statement best describes how Spain and France grew powerful in the 1500s and 1600s?

• Spanish kings gained new colonies, and French kings used wars to increase power.

• Spanish kings joined the Hapsburg empire, and French kings destroyed the power of nobles.

• Spanish kings increased their lands by conquest and inheritance, and French kings created a centralized monarchy.

In which ways did the Directory maintain the changes that had taken place during the French Revolution?

• The Republic continued to be governed without a king.

• Reforms were halted, and the Church gained control.

• Schools were set up, and the term “citizen” applied to nobles.

How did George III’s rejection of Enlightenment ideas about government affect colonial policy?

• He strengthened Parliament and enlarged Britain’s empire.

• He tried to make Parliament follow his wishes and angered American colonists.

• He supported elections for Parliament and limited colonial trade.

Radicals in the French Assembly condemned the king to death because:

• He attempted to flee the country.

• He supported the revolution.

• He abolished the monarchy.

• He was a popular leader.

How did the Congress of Vienna try to limit French ambition?

• The wartime alliance against France was extended into peacetime.

• It created a multinational army to stop future French aggression.

• It kept France from participating in the Congress.

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

• the National Assembly

• the sans-culottes

• the émigrés

How did the power of the king change after the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution?

• The king governed in partnership with Parliament.

• The king governed under Commonwealth rules.

• The king regained total control of government.

The tax that Parliament placed on items such as the one shown here led directly to

• the Boston Tea Party.

• protests in the colonies.

• the Boston Massacre.

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 men had equal political rights.

• It abolished monarchy and set up a republic.

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

Which entry on this chart applies to the First Estate, rather than the Third Estate?

• Included urban workers

• Were subject to the corvée

• Paid few taxes