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Ch.22
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Question | Answer |
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Who nvented a machine which could behead a victim "painlessly", and later changed his own name due to the association with its use? | Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin |
French and British thinkers who opposed mecantilist control of the economy argued that the state should practice the"hands-off'" policy, also called what? | laissez-faire |
The Haitian Revolution was more radical that the American or French Revolutions that proceeded it because of what factor? | Slaves led the revolution and liberated themselves. |
What created the necessary conditions for a slave rebellion on Saint-Domingue? | A split between white settler and mulattos encouraged by French administrators. |
Both the American and French Revolutions were consequences of the debt caused by what? | the Seven Years' War |
Although affirming the concept that the equality of all "men" was "self-evident," the Declaration of Independence excluded what percentage of all Americans who were Black slaves? | one-fifth |
Who allied with America after supplying the American colonists with money, arms, and officers, in 1778-1779 and declared war on Great Britain? | Spain |
What was the "White Terror" in France following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy? | Royalists and nobles who returned to France and attacked republicans in revenge. |
Austria's Prime Minister Prince Klemens von Metternich, an opponent of constitutional nationalism, and wanted to reinstitute the right of kings and emperors to rule by divine grace, persuaded the Congress of Vienna to formulate what two principles? | legitimacy and balance of power |
In retaliation for the defiant actions in Boston Harbor, Britain imposed which acts that put Massachusetts into effective bankruptcy? Also known "Intolerable Acts" in colonial North America, | Coercive Acts |
What was one of the results of the American Civil War? | End of slavery and the granting of citizenship to former slaves |
Denis Diderot's most important contribution to the Enlightenment was to edit a twenty-eight volume collection of knowledge called what? | Encyclopedie |