The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History (Third Edition)
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| 324735164 | What did he colonial wars of the eighteenth century trigger? | fiscal crisises in Britain and France | |
| 324735165 | What was the Enlightenment? | intellectual movement - methods and questions of scientific revolution were applied | |
| 324735166 | What ideas did John Locke argue? | individual rights are the foundation of civil government | |
| 324735167 | One of Rousseau's most radical ideas was that government should do what? | authority rested on the consent of the governed | |
| 324735168 | How did Monarchs such as Catherine the Great of Russia and Frederick the Great of Prussia respond to the Enlightenment? | actively sponsored and promoted the dissemination of new ideas | |
| 324735169 | In 1793, the French hired Nicholas-Jacques Conte to do what? | develop graphite for use in pencil | |
| 324735170 | The Enlightenment's intellectual ferment most deeply influenced what social class? | middle class | |
| 324735171 | Benjamin Franklin was an example to European intellectuals that America was doing what? | vast potential of America | |
| 324735172 | What two related problems did the British face after defeating the French in 1763? | limiting settlement in amerindian lands and imposing taxes | |
| 324735173 | The Proclamation of 1763 and the Quebec Act of 1774 were intended to | limit west expansion | |
| 324735174 | The Stamp Act of 1765 required that colonists pay a tax on | nearly all printed material | |
| 324735175 | Which 1770 event radicalized public opinion throughout the American colonies? | Boston Massacre | |
| 324735176 | Before 1775, what tactics did the European colonial settlers use to respond to British policies? | declaring war on Britain | |
| 324735177 | Common Sense, the pamphlet that stirred up anti-British sentiment on the eve of the American Revolution, was written by | Thomas Paine | |
| 324735178 | The Battle of Saratoga in 1777 was crucial because it | brought the French into the new world | |
| 324735179 | At Yorktown, the British General Cornwallis did what? | surrendered | |
| 324735180 | The Constitutional Convention of 1787 is called "the Second American Revolution" because | the delegates pushed aside the announced purpose and in secret wrote a new constitution | |
| 324735181 | In the Constitution, why were slaves counted as three-fifths of a person | to give southern states more reps | |
| 324735182 | The Constituion allowed the slave trade to continue until what year? | 1808 | |
| 324735183 | Under which state Constitution were women and African-Americans eligible to vote until 1807? | New Jersey | |
| 324735184 | What were causes of the French Revolution? What type of government was formed afterwards? | poverty, hunger, high taxes; constitutional monarchy | |
| 324735185 | What happened to King Louis XVI as a result of the French Revolution? | beheaded | |
| 324735186 | Give some examples of the growing poverty in France | ALL OF THESE | |
| 324735187 | What contributed to the financial crisis that triggered the French Revolution? | NOT failure to collect tines from the clergy | |
| 324735188 | In 1787, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General, the French national legislature, because | the French elite would not consent to new taxes | |
| 324735189 | Which French Estate declared itself to be the National Assembly? | 3rd estate | |
| 324735190 | As economic depression, hunger and high bread prices combined in 1789, how did a Parisian crowd react? | attacked the bastille | |
| 324735191 | When the Parisian crowd marched to Versailles, it demanded what? | invade the palace | |
| 324735192 | What was accomplished by the new French constitution? | NOT it put peasants in control of the government | |
| 324735193 | The Jacobin members of the National Convention were | middle class democrats | |
| 324735194 | Napoleon became Europe's first popular dictator because he | promised order to an exhausted society | |
| 324735195 | Napoleon won the support of the peasantry and the middle class by | promised order once and for all | |
| 324735196 | Despite the dominance of the French military, the British defeated Napoleon's navy in 1805 at | Battle of Trafalgar | |
| 324735197 | Napoleon's invasion of __________ led to his decline. 41. After his escape from Elba, Napoleon was defeated at | Belgium at Waterloo | |
| 324735198 | Saint Domingue was most important to France because | responsible for 1/3 of all foreign trade | |
| 324735199 | Who was François Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverature? What did he do that made him famous? | slave who lead rebellion - captured to france and died in prison | |
| 324735200 | The central objective of the Congress of Vienna was | "Holy Alliance" of countries | |
| 324735201 | In 1830, Greece won its independence from the | Ottomans | |
| 324735202 | Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the population grew because of | reliable food supplies and widespread resistance to disease | |
| 324735203 | The result of the 19th century population explosion in Europe was | from the country to the city | |
| 324735204 | What new crop became an important aspect of the Agricultural Revolution? | the potato | |
| 324735205 | The Agricultural Revolution was a change in farming methods and crops that resulted in | rich farmers "enclosing" their lands and poor farmers becoming landless | |
| 324735206 | What factors gave Britain a "head start" on the Industrial Revolution? | NOT it recovered from the plague more quickly than the rest of Europe | |
| 324735207 | What new forms of energy were important for industrialization? | steam engine and electricity | |
| 324735208 | What does it mean to use a "division of labor" in manufacturing? | dividing work into specialized and repetitive tasks | |
| 324735209 | What new inventions were developed to weave cotton textiles? | the spinning jenny and the water frame | |
| 324735210 | Iron production was transformed by Abraham Darby's discovery that | coke could be used in place of charcoal in the smelting process | |
| 324735211 | The most revolutionary invention of the Industrial Revolution was James Watt's | steam engine | |
| 324735212 | European industries such as iron, construction, and machinery were stimulated by | first building a railroad network | |
| 324735213 | Describe the urban poor neighborhoods? | NOT most poor urbanites lived in factory owned apt. buildings | |
| 324735214 | The most obvious change in rural life during the industrial revolution was | the appearance of new canals, roads, and railroads | |
| 324735215 | Factory work represented a complete transformation in the nature of agricultural work because | ALL OF THESE | |
| 324735216 | Single women and married women both did factory work but for different reasons, such as | married women worked if their husbands were unable to support their families | |
| 324735217 | How were children factory workers treated? | worked 14-16 hours a day and were beaten to stay awake | |
| 324735218 | Who and how did the cotton boom affect? | enriched planters as well as manufacturers and created a high demand for slaves | |
| 324735219 | Thomas Malthus's explanation of workers' misfortunes was that | overpopulation; poor should abstain from sex | |
| 324735220 | *Factory Act 1833 | no children less than nine years old | |
| 324735221 | *Mines Act | no children or women | |
| 324735222 | What invention revolutionized communication during the Industrial Revolution? | telegraph |
