WorksheetsPolitical Revolutions Unit 12 Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which Enlightenment thinker argued for natural rights of life, liberty, and property?
John Locke advocated natural rights
Voltaire promoted free speech and religion
Jean-Jacques Rousseau emphasized general will
Thomas Hobbes supported absolute monarchy
What was the main social class of merchants and professionals in pre-revolutionary France?
Sans-culottes of urban workers
Nobility of the Second Estate
Clergy of the First Estate
Bourgeoisie of the Third Estate
Which event was the bloodless overthrow that replaced James II with William and Mary?
Congress of Vienna in 1815
Glorious Revolution in 1688
French Revolution in 1789
American Revolution in 1776
A government in which a king’s power is limited by law is called what?
Republic elected representatives
Dictatorship single-party rule
Constitutional monarchy limited power
Absolute monarchy centralized rule
Which principle describes a political situation where no nation is strong enough to dominate others?
Nationalism loyalty to nation
Separation of powers divides branches
Popular sovereignty people rule
Balance of power prevents dominance
What was Napoleon’s comprehensive and uniform legal system for France?
Continental System trade blockade
Napoleonic Code civil law system
Declaration of the Rights of Man
English Bill of Rights statute
What term describes a sudden seizure of political power in a nation?
Coup d’état abrupt takeover
Plebiscite popular vote
Treaty diplomatic agreement
Reform gradual change
Which meeting sought to restore stability in Europe after Napoleon’s defeat?
Estates General pre-revolution assembly
Congress of Vienna postwar settlement
National Convention radical legislature
Council of Trent religious reform
Which document proclaimed revolutionary ideals in France in 1789?
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Magna Carta liberties of barons
Tennis Court Oath pledge
Bill of Rights of 1689
Which ideology emphasizes loyalty to people with shared culture and history rather than to a ruler?
Mercantilism trade regulation
Nationalism loyalty to nation
Imperialism expansion by empire
Feudalism obligations of lords
Which Enlightenment ideas limited kings and increased rights after the English Civil War?
English Bill of Rights protected people
Mercantilist tariffs increased revenue
Divine right strengthened monarchs
Salutary neglect reduced control
Who established a self-made dictatorship in France after the Revolution?
Marat journalist agitator
Napoleon Bonaparte military ruler
Maximilien Robespierre radical leader
Louis XVI executed monarch
Which group successfully created a democratic government, unlike the French revolutionaries?
Peninsulares restored royal power
Creoles created Spanish monarchy
Jacobins established radical rule
Americans formed stable republic
Which policy attempted to block British trade by closing European ports?
Berlin Decree colonial tax
Holy Alliance conservative pact
Continental System economic blockade
Napoleonic Code civil reforms
Which revolution spread principles such as legal equality and religious tolerance across Europe?
Haitian Revolution slave uprising
French Revolution transformed Europe
American Revolution transatlantic colonies
Glorious Revolution changed monarchy
What inspired many Latin American independence movements?
Feudal obligations of serfs
Medieval scholastic traditions
Enlightenment and revolutionary ideals
Renaissance artistic patronage
Who were Spaniards born in Spain that dominated colonial administration?
Peninsulares colonial elites
Creoles American-born Spaniards
Mestizos mixed ancestry groups
Mulattoes African-European descent
What do historians call Spaniards born in Latin America of Spanish descent?
Viceroys royal governors
Gauchos frontier cattle herders
Creoles American-born Spaniards
Peninsulares Spanish-born elites
The American and French Revolutions led to which wider movements?
Industrial Revolutions in textiles
Latin American Independence wars
Scientific Revolutions in physics
Religious Reformations in Europe
Which set of ideas most influenced the American, French, and Latin American Revolutions?
Mercantilism and tariffs
Feudalism and manorialism
Absolutism and divine right
Enlightenment ideas of rights
