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WorksheetsStudy Game for WH Unit 6 Test
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 30mins
Who was Louis XIV?
This man promoted Westernization campaigns to make his country more European
This man demonstrated absolutism by building Versailles as a way of distracting the French nobility
This man believed that humans were naturally good and would not need a large government to rule over them.
This man did not believe that the average person was intelligent enough to participate in government, which led him to believe that an enlightened monarchy was best.
During the Age of Absolutism, European monarchs looked to
Develop better relations with muslim rulers
Centralize political power in their nations
Encourage the growth of political farms
Increase human rights for citizens
A form of government with unlimited power held by one individual
Democracy
Absolutism
Nationalism
Republicanism
Which scientist is famous for discovering gravity?
Kepler
Ptolemy
Newton
Bescartes
Who was the English scientist who discovered the laws of gravitation?
Galileo
Newton
Kepler
Copernicus
Which theory did Robert Boyle help define
Calculus
Chemistry
Geometry
Physics
The __________ was a movement that changed how people viewed the physical universe?
Enlightenment
Neolithic Revolution
Scientific Revolution
This enlightenment philosopher argued strongly in favor of free speech as a human right, and criticized intolerance and oppression, especially that of the Catholic Church
John Locke
Voltaire
Thomas Hobbes
Olympe de Gouges
This philosopher firmly believed that life, liberty and property were natural rights of all people. He inspired the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Hobbes
Voltaire
John Locke
Baron de Montesquieu
This philosopher was the first to propose two major features of modern American government - Separation of powers and Checks & Balances
Thomas Hobbes
Baron de Montesquieu
Olympe de Gouges
John Locke
Time period in Europe during the 17th & 18th Centuries when Philosophers began applying the concept of reason to the political environment and challenged absolutism (unlimited government).
Scientific Revolution
Renaissance
Enlightenment
Middle Ages
Philosophers
Democracy
Social Contract
Divine Right of Kings
Who did John Locke and Voltaire influence?
What was the Columbian Exchange?
a prisoner exchange between Cortés and the Aztecs
a peace exchange between Columbus and the Taino
an exchange of cultures and goods between Europe and Asia
an exchange of cultures and goods across the Atlantic Ocean
Which had the greatest effect on American Indian populations?
crops
diseases
horses
plantations
What statement best supports the argument that the Age of Exploration did more harm than good?
European settlers formed plantations to grow sugar.
Millions of American Indians died, and their cultures changed.
Many of the brave sailors and explorers never returned home.
Expeditions were expensive and cost more than they brought home.
What are the three causes of the American Revolution? (click all that apply)
Famine
The Enlightenment
French and Indian War
Taxes
Lack of protection from France
Which American Revolutionary figure wrote most of the Declaration of Independence?
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Marquis de Lafayette
What were the results of the American Revolution?
England won
America won
Taxes increase
England took over America and punished the colonist
The American Revolution brought which long-term change to the United States?
State and Federal powers became more unbalanced
Individual rights were explicitly protected by the Constitution
The government lost most of its capability to fight foreign enemies
British culture and values were replaced by French culture and values
Which statement describes a long-term impact of the French Revolution?
It established new trade policies with foreign nations
It spread democracy across much of the European continent
It changed the balance of power from Western to Eastern Europe
Democratic reforms encouraged citizens to participate in government.
The American Revolution brought which long-term change to the United States?
State and Federal powers became more unbalanced
Individual rights were explicitly protected by the Constitution
The government lost most of its capability to fight foreign enemies
British culture and values were replaced by French culture and values
The first thing that both revolutions had in common was that the people rebelling were
rich and wanted to be taxed at a higher rate
being ruled by King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
being taxed unfairly
Both the British colonists in America and the French were...
living under a monarch
living in areas where the weather made it impossible to farm or fish
living under a system that was run by the ancient gods
Finally, both the French people and the American colonists felt
that their contributions were not being noticed by their kings
that their rights were being violated
that the aristocrats were not treated special enough
The Enlightenment provided _______ to both groups which fueled their revolutions.
ideas, such as a king's divine right to rule and the Third Estate
ideas such as natural rights and equality
ideas such as gravity and the scientific method
The French used the ideas found in the American Declaration of Independence to write their own document, which stated their rights and beliefs.
True
False
What influenced L'Ouverture to make this statement about natural rights and lead a slave rebellion in Haiti?
What were the results of Latin American revolutions?
mass deportation of European colonists
Europeans were force to pay back money
democracies formed throughout the continent
How were the American and French Revolutions similar?
They both were about unfair taxation problems
all resulted in changes to the religious structure
all inspired by Renaissance ideas
all were lost
