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WorksheetsAtlantic Revolutions-AP
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 32mins
Which of the following events that occurred that year BEST supports that contention that Historians often consider 1812 a turning point in the history of Napoleonic France?
Napoleon’s invasion of Russia resulted in Moscow’s destruction, but he was forced to withdraw.
Switzerland and the Ottoman empire remained neutral, weakening Napoleon’s control of the continent.
Great Britain’s blockade of European ports failed.
American intervention as Great Britain’s ally forced Napoleon into exile.
Which of the following represents the most significant cause for the unification of Germany in the nineteenth century?
The strength of the Austrian Hapsburg empire was a threat to Germany if unification did not occur.
German pacifism and withdrawal from the international scene allowed for focus on unification.
The Germans provoked wars with three neighboring countries to strengthen German nationalism.
Speeches and elections had served to help unify the German people in 1848 and 1849.
Which of the following BEST describes a significant influence on the time frame for Italian political unification?
Massive Italian immigration to the Americas and Australia included many potential revolutionaries that weakened the process toward unification.
Civil war erupted and the drive to unify the country was successfully resisted by several Italian states.
Austrian and Spanish power blocked attempts to unify Italy, and the country remained divided into a variety of small states until the early twentieth century.
The last of the Italian lands to renounce independence and join the new nation was the Papal States, where the Roman Catholic Church resisted unification.
Which of the following describes a major change that occurred as a result of the Haitian revolution?
Five hundred gens de couleur were dispatched to British North America to assist the rebellious Americans against the British and they return to Haiti to serve as a militia for the white colonists.
Haiti became the only republic founded from the result of a slave revolt.
Intervention by the French, British, and Spanish successfully protected the interests of French planters in Saint-Domingue, later Haiti.
The gens de couleur (French for “people of color”), free mulattos and blacks, were wiped out by an alliance of French settlers and slaves that they armed.
Whose philosophy greatly influenced the creation of a political structure where the government drew its authority from “the consent of the governed” and is the basis for the contractual view of the Declaration of Independence?
Edmund Burke.
John Locke.
John Stuart Mill.
William Wilberforce.
Most revolutions produce a strong leading figure; the French Revolution allowed which of the following to assume great power?
Jean Lafitte
King Louis XVI
Lafayette
Robespierre
Which of the following were similar reasons for rebellion between the French Revolution and the American Revolution?
New proposed political structures
The privileges and influence of religious leaders
Transformation of the social class structure
Unfair systems of taxation
Which of the following was the basis for the intellectual concepts of the eighteenth-century political foundations?
Mercantilism
The Enlightenment
the Reconquista
The Reformation
Which of the following was least likely an influence for the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) led by Toussaint Louverture?
Other successful slavery uprisings
Social reforms spreading across Europe.
The ideals of the Enlightenment.
The American and French revolutions.
Which of the following best refers to Saint-Domingue's importance to France?
It was a buffer to the Spanish colonial presence in the Caribbean.
It was connected to the African slave trade network.
The island's location was of a strategic military position in the western hemisphere.
The plantation crops grown on the island generated wealth.
Which phrase best sums up the guiding principles of the French Revolution?
“all men are created equal.”
“liberty, equality, fraternity.”
“no taxation without representation.”
“peace, bread, land.”
Why have the Atlantic revolutions been described as democratic revolutions?
They permanently eliminated the monarchy as a viable political system.
Their common objective was to end the slave trade and abolish slavery.
Their overall thrust was to extend political rights further than ever before.
They fought for universal human rights for all, regardless of race or sex.
In contrast to the American Revolution, the French Revolution
experienced no participation by women.
sought to recreate society from scratch.
drew on Enlightenment ideas about liberty.
sought to preserve existing liberties.
The Atlantic revolutions were inspired by the Enlightenment belief that political and social arrangements
could be improved by human action.
were justified by the divine right of kings.
were driven by economic forces.
should be regulated by church authority.
What did freedom mean in post-revolutionary Haiti?
establishment of political rights for all
independence and the end of slavery
equality for both blacks and whites
equality for both men and women
The Atlantic revolutions challenged the absolute and divine authority of
republicans
nations
monarchies
empires
No taxation without representation.
American
French
Haitian
LA
Toussaint L'Overture
American
French
Haitian
LA
Ancien' Regime. (Estates)
American
French
Haitian
LA
Creoles
American
French
Haitian
LA
Reign of Terror
American
French
Haitian
LA
Slave Rebellion
American
French
Haitian
LA
Difficulty lies in the rigid social classes/racial differences that existed.
American
French
Haitian
LA
Which of the following best represents the nationalist movements of the post-revolutionary era in Europe?
Austrians against the British
Brazilians against the Portuguese
Greeks against the Ottomans
Sardinians against the Italians
Why did the French military help the U.S. in the American Revolution?
France owed the U.S. a favor.
The U.S. paid France.
France hated Britain.
France was scared of Britain.
Which revolution included wars of liberation that were led by Creole generals, Bolivar and San Martin?
French
Haitian
Latin American
American
All of the following were examples of Dechristianization in France except:
Temples of Reason
Tennis Court Oath
renaming of streets and public buildings
New calendars
The meeting held in Austria after Napoleon's final defeat was the
Congress of Vienna
Confederation of the Rhine
Edict of Nantes
Peace of Westphalia
What two nations experienced unification efforts to become regional European powers in the late 1800s?
Italy and Hungary
Hungary and Germany
Germany and Italy
France and Poland
Napoleon's first exile; and 2nd exile
Corsica ; Elba
Elba; St. Helena
St Helena; Sardinia
Waterloo, Leipzig
Peninsulares
Creoles
Castas
Slaves
Why were creoles resistant to support for their revolutions from the lower classes?
They understood the violence of the masses in the French Revolution
They knew white landowners had been killed in Haiti
They were insistent that skin color should determine social status in New Spain.
All of the above explain creoles' reluctance
Ottomanism sought to modernize and unify the Ottoman Empire by:
Reducing the religions, cultures and languages within its empire
Implementing laws based on Shariah only.
Refusing to grant the Greeks independence
Drafting many young men into the military to avoid the "Old Man of Europe" syndrome
Which of the following was NOT spread to the western hemisphere by the Columbian Exchange?
Horse and cattle
Disease
Slaves
Cash crops
What effect did the Columbian Exchange have on Native American populations?
It mostly wiped them out with disease
It increased them due to new crops
It stayed the same
Why was increased slave labor a result of the Columbian Exchange?
Asians utilized it make silk in India
Europeans used it to grow cash crops in the Americas
Europeans used it to grow cash crops in Europe
Which of the following was NOT a cash crop coming from the Americas to Europe?
Sugar
Tobacco
Cattle
Maize
Which empire is pictured here?
Portugal
British
French
Dutch
Which empire is pictured here?
Spain
British
French
Portugal
Which of the following is NOT a component of mercantilism?
Keeping as much gold and silver as possible
The sharing of collective resources
The attempt to buy as little as possible from other countries
The use of colonies to grow cash crops and then sell them
Which of the following contributed to the rise of African natives in the Americas at this time?
African migrations to America in search of jobs
Africans were good at navigating the seas so they just traveled everywhere
many Africans moved to the Americas in search of their family members
demand for slavery increased in the Americas
What did the Spanish claim as the purpose of the Encomienda system?
To make Spanish kings and lords more wealthy and powerful
To protect and care for the indigenous people, bringing them the advanced culture of Spain and the One True Faith
To establish a global colonial empire for Spain
To become the most wealthy and powerful nation in Europe.
