Unit 2 Review–Revolutions

What was the historical significance of Thomas Paine's Common Sense?

• It persuaded many Americans to support independence.

• It made the British angry enough to send troops to the colonies.

• It introduced Americans to Enlightenment ideas in simple language.

• It presented the case for compromise between the colonies and Britain.

As a direct result of the Boston Tea Party, the British

• required colonists to pay a tax on newspapers.

• closed the port of Boston to punish the colony.

• defeated the French in the French and Indian War.

• expanded the powers of the legislative assemblies.

In France before the French Revolution, the Third Estate or commoner class included

• nobles

• priests

• merchants

• only women and children

One reason for the French government's financial troubles was

• an unwillingness to increase taxes on the poor.

• the cost of helping with the American Revolution.

• the expense of calling a meeting of the Estates-General.

• a decrease in the value of wealthy landowners' investments.

By declaring themselves a National Assembly, members of the Estates-General

• rejected calls for creating a written constitution.

• promoted a spirit of unity among different regions.

• showed their willingness to negotiate with the king.

• claimed that they had the authority to govern France.

What kind of government did Japan have after the Meiji Restoration?

• military dictatorship

• representative republic

• constitutional monarchy

• confederation of city-states

The political revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries were inspired by the ideas of the

• Reformation

• Enlightenment

• Scientific Revolution

• Pax Romana

Why did the British impose new taxes on their American colonies in the mid 1760s?

• to punish the colonists for rebelling against the crown

• to pay for the cost of the French and Indian War

• to persuade the colonists to join the struggle against Napoleon

• to show the French king Louis XV the power of the British monarchy

What was the attitude of the French government toward the American Revolution?

• They supported the ideals found in the Declaration of Independence.

• They were insulted that the colonists would rebel without consulting them first.

• They saw the revolution as a threat to their own government.

• They supported the colonists as a way of undermining the British.

French society before the revolution

• had no royal court.

• had more social equality than elsewhere in Europe.

• was governed by a constitutional monarchy.

• was sharply divided socially.