WorksheetsUnit 1 Review Quiz Part 1
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 28mins
What did Thomas Hobbes describe as “nasty, brutish, and short”?
State of Nature
State of Warfare
State of Creation
State of Confusion
How did the Magna Carta (1215) contribute to the development of the English government?
It extended voting rights
It provided for a bill of rights.
It created a two-house parliament.
It limited the power of the monarch.
What is the theory that states Kings have authority by the hand of God?
Theory of Absolutism
Divine Right of Kings
Theory of Divinity
Divine Right of Monarchy
How many freedoms were granted to people under an absolute ruler?
Whatever freedoms granted by the King.
The freedom of religion.
The freedom of speech.
The freedom of prosperity and property.
Which of the following is not an absolute ruler?
Peter the Great
Louis XIV
Henry VIII
Thomas Jefferson
-Religious differences between Protestants and ---Catholics Disagreements over the divine authority of the King
-Legal questions over taxation
All of the above are causes related to
The English Civil War
The Glorious Revolution
The French Revolution
The War of the Roses
Which English leader took power at the end of the English Civil War?
Charles I
James II
Oliver Cromwell
William of Orange
During the English Civil War, which group supported Parliament?
Cavaliers
Torries
Roundheads
Whigs
Which document was created during the Glorious Revolution?
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence
Common Sense
What is one way in which the Stuart kings abused their power?
Dissolving Parliament
Declaring war on Germany
Changed religion of the country
Created state education
All of the following are examples of ways Henry VIII abused his power EXCEPT
Divorcing his wife, Catherine of Aragon
Creating the Church of England
Beheading his wives
Being a patron to the arts and entertainment
Louis XVI + Marie Antoinette Why were Louis and Marie Antoinette so strongly disliked?
Louis XVI was seen as war hungry, and Marie Antoinette was barren.
Louis XVI was seen as incompetent, and Marie Antoinette was a foreigner.
Louis XVI was seen as a communist and Marie Antoinette as a spendthrift.
Louis XVI spent too much money building the palace of Versailles, and Marie Antoinette was a foreigner.
The Tennis Court Oath can be described as the
decree in which it was declared the king would be beheaded.
event in which Napoleon was sworn in as head consulate in 1801.
ceremony in which Louis XVI required his nobility to swear an oath of allegiance.
declaration by the Third Estate that they would continue to meet until a constitution was established.
Which of these events was the first popular protest of the French Revolution?
trial of Louis XVI
storming of the Bastille
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
reign of the Committee of Public Safety
Early in his military career, how did Napoleon react when defeat was obvious?
He surrendered to the enemy.
He asked for more troops and ramped up his attack.
Abandoned his soldiers and returned home
He formed alliances with other countries.
Napoleon’s costliest defeat in terms of loss of material and men, that largely led to his downfall, came
against the Russians.
at Waterloo.
near Paris.
in Egypt.
By 1799, how did the outcome of the revolution in France differ from the outcome in the United States?
Unstable leadership in France allowed a military dictator to seize power.
French supporters of absolutism installed a new king who ruled by divine right.
A weak central authority in France allowed provinces to form independent republics.
French Jacobins formed a republican government in which the heads of state had only limited power.
Which of the following ideas of John Locke did Thomas Jefferson use in The American Declaration of Independence?
separation of powers
life, liberty, and the pursuit of property
general will over the rights of the individual
right of the people to overthrow the government
