WorksheetsChapter 21 Test
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 19mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What title best describes Simón Bolívar?
a)
A junta
b)
B caudillo
c)
C freedom fighter
d)
D constitutional monarch
2.
Napoleon Bonaparte modeled his government on what past civilization?
a)
A Ancient Greece
b)
B the Roman Empire
c)
C the Roman Republic
d)
D China’s Tang dynasty
3.
Which of the following influenced the American Revolution?
a)
A Romanticism
b)
B the Enlightenment
c)
C the Roman Empire
d)
D the French Revolution
4.
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
a)
A Ben Franklin
b)
B James Madison
c)
C George Washington
d)
D Thomas Jefferson
5.
What Enlightenment idea was incorporated into the Declaration of Independence?
a)
A abolition of slavery
b)
B popular sovereignty
c)
C separation of powers
d)
D laissez-faire economy
6.
Which document expressed the grievances of the American colonists against the British king?
a)
A the Bill of Rights
b)
B the Magna Carta
c)
C the U.S. Constitution
d)
D the Declaration of Independence
7.
Which of the following influenced the U.S. Constitution?
a)
A the French Revolution
b)
B the Enlightenment
c)
C the Roman Empire
d)
D Romanticism
8.
To which social class did French peasants belong?
a)
A the First Estate
b)
B the Second Estate
c)
C the Third Estate
d)
D the Fourth Estate
9.
What amendments to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed basic freedoms to citizens?
a)
A the Bill of Rights
b)
B the Proclamation of 1763
c)
C the Declaration of the Rights of Women
d)
D the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
10.
What was the lowest social class in France before the French Revolution?
a)
A the First Estate
b)
B the Second Estate
c)
C the Third Estate
d)
D the Catholic clergy
11.
Which group led the Reign of Terror in France?
a)
A the Jacobins
b)
B the Third Estate
c)
C the caudillos
d)
D the sans-culottes
12.
Which revolution immediately outlawed slavery?
a)
A the French Revolution
b)
B the Haitian Revolution
c)
C the American Revolution
d)
D the Mexican independence movement
13.
Who led France’s Reign of Terror, a time of extreme violence in which 17,000 were executed?
a)
A Louis XVI
b)
B Pedro I
c)
C Napoleon Bonaparte
d)
D Maximilien Robespierre
14.
What did William Wordsworth contribute to Romanticism?
a)
A poems
b)
B paintings
c)
C sculptures
d)
D symphonies
15.
Which freedom fighter attempted to liberate and unite the continent of South America?
a)
A Boukman
b)
B Simón Bolívar
c)
C Toussaint L’Ouverture
d)
D Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
16.
Which group did NOT join Father Hidalgo in his fight for Mexican independence?
a)
A criollos
b)
B mestizos
c)
C poor laborers
d)
D Native Americans
17.
Which revolution granted liberty and human rights to people of all races and outlawed slavery?
a)
A the French Revolution
b)
B the Haitian Revolution
c)
C the American Revolution
d)
D the Mexican independence movement
18.
What caused a sense of nationalism to spread through Europe in the early 1800s?
a)
A the Reign of Terror
b)
B the Napoleonic Code
c)
C the Napoleonic Wars
d)
D the American Revolution
19.
What was important to Romantic artists?
a)
A logic
b)
B order
c)
C reason
d)
D emotion
20.
Who earned the nickname “the Liberator” by fighting to free South America from Spain?
a)
A Boukman
b)
B Simón Bolívar
c)
C Pedro I
d)
D Toussaint L’Ouverture
21.
Father Hidalgo fought for the independence of what country?
a)
A Haiti
b)
B Brazil
c)
C Mexico
d)
D Venezuela
22.
Why did American colonists object to the Sugar Act and Stamp Act?
a)
A because sugar and stamps cost too much already
b)
B because they had no representatives in Parliament
c)
C because they thought higher taxes hurt the economy
d)
D because they did not consider themselves to be British
23.
Which French social class included the bourgeoisie?
a)
A the First Estate
b)
B the Second Estate
c)
C the Third Estate
d)
D the Fourth Estate
24.
What building did commoners overpower and loot, starting the French Revolution?
a)
A the Bastille
b)
B the Palais Royal
c)
C the Place de la République
d)
D the palace at Versailles
25.
What is true regarding the gens de couleur of Saint-Domingue?
a)
A They were poor and illiterate.
b)
B They wanted to end slavery on plantations.
c)
C They were enslaved men and women of mixed race.
d)
D They fought for the same rights as white plantation owners.
26.
Why did the French finally give up their fight to keep Haiti?
a)
A Boukman’s slave army defeated French forces at Le Cap.
b)
B The French government rejected imperialism.
c)
C Toussaint L’Ouverture signed a peace treaty with France.
d)
D Too many French soldiers were dying from African diseases in Haiti.
27.
Which of the following did Napoleon accomplish?
a)
A He advanced women’s rights.
b)
B He instituted freedom of the press.
c)
C He ended slavery in all French colonies.
d)
D He started the Bank of France to stabilize his economy.
28.
Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory in 1803 for
a)
2 million dollars
b)
6 million dollars
c)
10 million dollars
d)
15 million dollars
29.
What was the system of laws that Napoleon created. It reestablished slavery in France.
a)
A the Napoleonic Code
b)
B the Congress of Vienna
c)
C the Louisiana Purchase
d)
D the Confederation of the Rhine
30.
What did Romantic poetry, art, and music convey?
a)
A realism
b)
B religious themes
c)
C logic and control
d)
D emotions and subjectivity
31.
Which British poet is considered to be the first Romantic writer?
a)
A Lord Byron
b)
B Mary Shelley
c)
C William Blake
d)
D William Wordsworth
32.
What event provided Bolívar an opportunity to resist Spanish control in South America?
a)
A Enslaved Caribbean people revolted in Jamaica.
b)
B Gran Colombia formed a constitutional union.
c)
C Civil war erupted among Venezuela’s social classes.
d)
D Napoleon replaced Spain’s king with a French ruler.
33.
What did Simón Bolívar write to hopefully combine Latin America?
a)
The Magna Carta
b)
The Federal Papers
c)
The Jamaican Letters
d)
Tennis Court Oath.
34.
What area had the most successful revolutionary outcomes?
a)
Europe
b)
North America
c)
Haiti
d)
Latin America
35.
Which of these countries gained independence first?
a)
A Haiti
b)
B Chile
c)
C Mexico
d)
D Paraguay
36.
In 1839, which was the only Latin American country with no access to an ocean?
a)
A Bolivia
b)
B Paraguay
c)
C Empire of Brazil
d)
D United Provinces of Rio de la Plata
37.
Under whose leadership did French people have the least freedom?
a)
A Louis XVIII
b)
B Napoleon Bonaparte
c)
C the National Convention
d)
D the Committee of Public Safety
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