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AP Chapter 11 Upshur
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absolute monarchy reached its apogee under the Bourbon dynasty in | France. |
| Who held that all people are naturally selfish and ambitious, and unless restrained by strong government would engage in "war of all against all"? | Thomas Hobbes |
| about one-half of the adult white males could vote in the early eighteenth century., many colonists met the requirements for holding office. | political participation of citizens in British North America, |
| The territory that the Spanish and Portuguese controlled in the Western Hemisphere was about how many times larger than their homelands? | forty |
| fostered the growth of industry., imposed tariffs on imports., protected trade with strong navies., | Mercantilist governments in the eighteenth century |
| Intellectually, the Age of Reason marked a shift from | religious and philosophical explanations of the universe to scientific ones |
| The population of British North America was about what fraction of that of Latin America? | one tenth |
| French philosophes looked to this for inspiration. | the Roman republic before the Caesars |
| Sometimes called the Columbus of the scientific revolution is | Nicholas Copernicus. |
| In the eighteenth century, an important new device that allowed navigators to calculate the correct longitude in determining a ship's location was the | chronometer. |
| Among the components essential to industrial development was | technological advances., entrepreneurship., adequate natural resources and labor., sufficient economic demand and accumulations of capital. |
| Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo wrote | General and Natural History of the Indies. |
| the genres that Spanish American writers concentrated on was | lyric poetry., devotional literature., chivalric romance. |
| Two wars against Ottoman Empire gained Russia Black Sea and warm water ports., remarked, "If I could live for two hundred years, all of Europe would be brought under Russian rule.", three partitions of Poland, acquired about 2/3 of the once Polish state. | statements about Catherine the Great's foreign policy |
| enlightenment political theory & practice., student of physical sciences & architect., was a strong believer in religious toleration and in greater social equality., corresponded with European writers on subjects ranging from science to economics. | statements about Thomas Jefferson |
| involved the importing of more and more black slaves to the southern colonies. | The labor situation in British North America |
| were torn away from their native culture., Since males greatly outnumbered females, most blacks could not even establish families., held a dual status: as human beings, they were entitled to humane treatment; as slaves, they were chattel, like livestock. | blacks in Latin America |
| rulers, who was the most "enlightened"? | Joseph II |
| burdened with idle clerics who congregated for luxurious & sometimes debauched living in the cities., the religious orders often competed with the laity in banking and commerce, taking advantage of special exemptions from taxation and economic regulation. | Among the abuses and problems attended the transplanting of the Catholic church to the Western Hemisphere was the fact that |
| French power in India was effectively eliminated by | the British capture of Pondicherry in 1761. |
| Beginning in the sixteenth century in Western societies, rational scientific analysis spread into which of the following fields of human endeavor? | art, economics, politics, philosophy |
| was open to new ideas, practical, and immensely hardworking and energetic., was nearly seven feet tall, ill educated, uncouth, and often brutal., was very favorably disposed toward westerners and western Europe. | Peter the Great |
| What percentage of the population of France under Louis XIV was composed of Huguenots? | 12 percent |
| wrote history, philosophical fiction, drama, poetry, popular science, and essays on social questions., book Candide ridiculed snobbish aristocrats and hypocritical churchmen., aimed to free society from religious tyranny. | Voltaire |
| resources & density population of New England towns & Atlantic seaports rise schools., 18th century, 3 private colleges trad. curriculum train ministers., Protestant emphasis Bible reading & usefulness of education led many to learn to read and write. | education in British North America |
| ceded to the new nation of the United States of America the area south of Canada and east of the Mississippi, except for Florida and the Gulf coast., concentrate their forces in a defense Caribbean & Indian possessions., gave up rebellious colonies. | In 1781, the British government, unable to crush the rebellion in North America, |
| The English philosopher who first claimed that all people have such inborn natural rights as freedom, equality, and the right to private property was | John Locke. |
| Isaac Newton's claim to be called one of the founders of the scientific revolution is based on his | formulation of the law of gravity. |
| a reaction against the religious intolerance of the Reformation., the impact of the age of discovery. | the sources of the Enlightenment |
| Amerindians single largest racial group as a whole throughout the colonial period., Mestizo descendants from white-Amerindian unions were in the majority in some areas., There was an extensive mulatto population throughout the Caribbean and Brazil. | statements about the racial mix in Latin America |
| Enlightenment writers who applied the scientific method to the social as well as the natural world | used reason to analyze and to expose faults in traditional institutions. |
| settlers departed further from European culture than did Latin Americans., had a temperate climate and relatively fertile soil., colonial settlements were established more than a century after those in Latin America | British North America |
| Franciscans & Dominicans accompanied conquistadores & converted millions of Amerindians., The Spanish monarchy nominated all clerical officials as high as the rank of archbishop., Nearly all the top ecclesiastical appointments went to Spanish aristocrats. | statements about the Roman Catholic church in Spanish America |
| Philip II was most successful at | fighting the Ottomans. |
| restricted investors' obligations for their firms' debts to the amount of their own investment. | Limited liability laws in Great Britain |
| could control the procedures of the colonial assembly and veto its acts. | The British governors in North America |
| In 1759 James Wolfe defeated main French army at Quebec., British naval expeditions wrested away nearly all of the French islands in the Caribbean., In 1754-55 the French and their Amerindian allies defeated two expeditions mounted against Fort Duquesne. | the struggle between Britain and France for supremacy in North America |
| Few of them actually achieved what they claimed., main difference from the old style absolutist monarchs was primarily in attitude and style., claimed their paternalistic government best served the interests of all. | statements about enlightened despots |
| criminal codes should be clear., penalties must be applied equally to all classes of society., criminals must be brought to trial and punished swiftly and in proportion to their crimes. | Cesar Beccarria's Crimes and Punishments |
| class boundaries were more fluid than in Europe., wealth and merit rather than inherited title determined social status. | regards social status in British North America, |
| Aristocratic patrons and small, elite groups continued to dominate most artistic life., They were less innovative than the scientific and social thought of the period., Music reached larger numbers of people than ever before. | Enlightenment painting and literature |
| were seldom freed, and the few who were had difficulty acquiring property., status varied more than in Latin America., enjoyed a higher standard of living and lived longer than slaves in Latin America. | black slaves in British North America |
| Peninsulars &Creoles owned virtually all mines, ranches, plantations, and manufacturing establishments., Spanish America was governed by a small elite of aristocrats and gentry separated from the rest of society by various hereditary and legal privileges. | social and political situation in Spanish America |
| Closest to the meaning of the French word "philosophe" is | "rationalist social critic." |
| To import western European skills, he hired more foreign experts., tried to stop the veiling of upper class women and encouraged social mingling between men and women., improved Russia's primitive transportation network. | reforms undertaken by Peter the Great |
| As regards the relative advantages of the British and the colonists during the American war for independence, | the rebels were under-financed. |
| Among the territories acquired or claimed by the United States between 1803 and 1826 was | Florida., the Oregon territory., Louisiana. |
| admired the American experiment in free government., was an enlightened aristocrat., was a disciple of Voltaire.died a victim of the political terror during the French Revolution. | Marquis de Condorcet |
| turned back the last great Ottoman invaders of central Europe and drove them out of Hungary. | Emperor Leopold I of Austria |
| Spanish American colonists corresponded European scientific societies.,Copernicus & Newton, Bacon & Descartes taught in two dozen universities., colonial newspapers expressed concern over political abuses & voiced demands for economic and social changes. | the influence of Enlightenment ideas in Spanish America, |
| In 1763, which country controlled Alaska? | Britain |
| London was the world's greatest port., Liverpool and Glasgow rose to commercial prominence through trade in slaves, furs, and tobacco. | Great Britain's position as an overseas trading nation after 1763 |
| The first European state to embrace fully the tenets of absolutism and mercantilism was | Spain. |
| Andrew Burnaby, in his Travels through the Middle Settlements in North America, predicted that the colonies of British America would | never be able to form a permanent union. |
| colonists were not to produce items that competed with the products of the mother country. | imports to Spanish America, |
| Diderot was tried and condemned as impious, seditious, and immoral, and was thrown into prison for | editing the Encyclopedia. |
| was a firm believer in absolutism., greatly improved the Prussian army. | Frederick William I |
| The writer who best exemplifies the taste for Classicism in seventeenth-century France was | Jean Racine. |
| could accumulate the price of freedom, but few masters chose to free them., after being freed, did not find their race an absolute barrier to rising in society. | Slaves in Latin America |
| exemplifies the impact of middle class tastes on prose fiction | Robinson Crusoe, Evalina, Tom Jones |
| According to the French bishop Jacques Bossuet, whoever challenged the authority of the king was also challenging | God. |
| The Stuart monarchy was restored., was a military dictatorship under Oliver Cromwell., English king was beheaded., England suffered a civil war. | English history in the period 1640-1660 |
| abolished serfdom & conferred citizenship rights former serfs., curtailed power of Catholic church in his domains., penal code that forbade torture and reduced the number of crimes subject to capital punishment., abridged the rights of local assemblies. | Joseph II's reforms in Austria |
| the cultural developments of Elizabethan England was the | drama of William Shakespeare. |
| child prodigy who earned a rather precarious living as an adult by composing operas and symphonies and died in debt at the age of only thirty-five? | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| made the greatest imperial gains in the eighteenth century? | Britain |
| Dissenters settled for established churches to control or drive away. 1750, English-speaking Anglicans, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Baptists, & Quakers.enforce religious uniformity failed. | religious situation in British North America |
| By the 1820s, this major British base controlled the trade route to east Asia. | Singapore |
| transformed the principality of Moscow into the state of Russia. | Prince Ivan III |
| successfully suppressed the Pugachev rebellion. | Catherine the Great |
| provoked the War of Austrian Succession., included the first partition of Poland in collaboration with Russia and Austria., was not based on the humanitarian and pacifist ideals of the philosophies. | Frederick the Great's foreign policy |
| the price of an object should reflect both the demand for it and its supply. | Adam Smith |
| Who wrote of British North America that "here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world"? | J. Hector St. John |
| guaranteed procedural protections and a fair trial for those accused of crime., established an open, liberal society that would tolerate freedom of religion, speech, and the press. | U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights |
| fashioned a federal republic in which the national government controlled diplomacy, war and peace, interstate and international commerce, the army and navy, and Indian affairs. | U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights |
| was in the forefront of constructing or improving transportation and communication systems. | first half century of its independence, the United States |
| Rousseau felt the best guide to the truth was | intuition. |
| died in a skirmish with Hawaiians. | Captain James Cook |
| controlled cinnamon and tea plantations on Ceylon., held slave-trading posts on the African coast., possessed the largest European merchant marine and naval fleets., controlled sugar islands in the Caribbean. | Dutch in the seventeenth century |
| made substantial contributions to the enlightenment. | Benjamin Franklin |
| effectively allowed French Calvinists (Huguenots) to hold public office and fortify several towns for their protection. | The Edict of Nantes |
| ruled both Spain and Bohemia. | Charles V |
| The discovery that Asia and North America were separated by a body of water was made by | a Danish explorer in the employ of the Russian czar Peter the Great. |
| was a product of the pervasive Spanish culture in Peru., was a devout Catholic.was a descendant of Inka rulers., life ended in an agony of torture and dismemberment. | José Gabriel Túpac Amaru |
| Competing for control of the remote but lucrative fur-rich Pacific coast of North America were the | Spanish., Americans., Russians., British. |
| Rhode Island religious freedom to Christians, Jews, and Muslims., | religious situation in British North America |
| Competing for control of the remote but lucrative fur-rich Pacific coast of North America were the | Spanish., Americans., Russians., British. |
| He dismissed Parliament when it refused to repeal laws that discriminated against Catholics., He issued a Declaration of Indulgence., He was an avowed Catholic when he ascended the throne. | statements about James II |
| The chief motivations for European voyages of exploration in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were | desire for commercial gain and increasing thirst for scientific knowledge. |
| London had half a million inhabitants., The open field method of farming had been replaced by enclosed farms, worked by independent freehold and tenant farmers. | seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England |
| Most people lived in villages and hamlets, pursuing farming and a flourishing cottage industry of crafts and small-scale manufacture., Except for the decades of the mid-seventeenth century, cultural life was vigorous and urban life flourished. | seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England |
| support the sun-centered model of the solar system? | Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Carl Sagan |
| political shrewdness & increase royal power., believed firmly in his own divine right to rule., was short but strong and handsome., lured the once rebellious aristocracy to his court at Versailles outside Paris and encouraged them to live extravagantly. | Louis XIV of France |
| The system of checks and balances reflected in the Constitution of the United States owes much to the thought of | Montesquieu. |
| As regards education in Spanish America, | the church controlled education at all levels. |
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