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8602297695	All of the following are true about the Napoleonic Era (1799-1814) except	D. Despite the fact that all the other European great powers, England, Prussia, Austria and Russia were allied against him from 1799 onwards, Napoleon managed to defeat them until 1812	0
8602297696	The only country which remained continually at war with France from 1792 to 1814, except for about a year of peace in 1802-03, was	B. Great Britain	1
8602297697	The main accomplishment of the First Coalition against Napoleon was	B. the extermination of the Polish state	2
8602297698	Why did the peace of 1802-03 between France and the rest of Europe turn to war?	B. Napoleon gave it no chance, using the peace to aggressively advance his interests in Italy, Germany and Haiti	3
8602297699	A major reason that the Third Coalition against Napoleon failed to defeat him was	B. Prussia refused to join until too late	4
8602297700	The Third Coalition dissolved when	C. Napoleon defeated all his enemies in decisive battles at Austerlitz, Jena and Auerstadt and Friedland	5
8602297701	Napoleon dissolved the Holy Roman Empire and replaced it with	C. The Confederation of the Rhine	6
8602297702	Napoleon was determined to subdue the British, using his political control of Europe to	B. destroy British trade with Europe	7
8602297703	By the end of 1809, the Habsburg empire had done all of the following except	B. disintegrated into civil war after its fourth defeat by Napoleon	8
8602297704	In 1806 Napoleon established the "Continental System", which was	C. an attempt to ruin Britain economically by forbidding the importation of British goods into continental Europe	9
8602297705	In general, Napoleonic domination included all of the following except	D. the careful crafting reform legislation to fit local conditions	10
8602297706	In his empire, Napoleon supported "constitutions" and considered himself "enlightened" because he	D. wanted government to be rationally constitutional and believed in the rule of law	11
8602297707	In his Grand Empire, Napoleon's policy toward religion included all of the following except	D. toleration to all religions except the Jews	12
8602297708	In order to unify his European empire, Napoleon	D. all of the above	13
8602297709	The reforms of the Napoleonic system had last appeal in	D. Germany	14
8602297710	Territorially, Napoleon's influence reached its peak in 1811, when he dominated the entire European mainland except	A. the Balkans	15
8602297711	Napoleon resorted to all of the following measures to enforce the Continental System except	B. the creation of a common European tariff union	16
8602297712	The product Europeans were least able to replace once the Continental System went into force was	D. Sugar	17
8602297713	War broke out between the U.S. and Britain in 1812 because	B. France offered to remove her restrictions on neutral trade while Britain refused	18
8602297714	The Continental System failed because	D. all of the above	19
8602297715	By far the most momentous popular, anti-French movement during the Napoleonic era took place in	A. Spain	20
8602297716	The great nationalist thinker Herder	B. championed a German culture arising from the life of the common people	21
8602297717	Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812 because	B. It withdrew from the Continental System	22
8602297718	In reaction to its humiliating defeat by France, Prussia	D. abolished serfdom, but still subjected the peasants to forced labor on the landlord's fields	23
8602297719	Viscount Castlereagh was able to construct the Quadruple Alliance of 1814, thus ensuring the defeat of Napoleon, by	A. promising large British subsidies to the allies	24
8602297720	The first Treaty of Paris (May 30, 1814), which made peace with a defeated France	D. imposed no indemnity or reparations on France	25
8602297721	In order to prevent future French aggression, the Congress of Vienna	B. gave Prussia the Left Bank of the Rhine and Austria Milan and Venice	26
8602297722	The second Treaty of Paris (1815), imposed on France after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo	B. imposed an army of occupation of France	27
8602297723	Alexander II's Holy Alliance was signed by all the countries of Europe except	D. Austria, Britain and France	28
8602297724	The Holy Alliance claimed to uphold Christian principles of charity and peace, but for many it can signify an alliance	B. against liberty and progress	29
8602297725	At the Congress of Vienna, one Britain's chief concerns was to	A. prevent Russian domination of the Continent	30
8602297726	As a result of the peace settlement of 1814-15, France	C. was returned to its 1648, pre-Louis XIV borders	31
8602297727	After the defeat of Napoleon and the 1815 peace treaties of Paris and Vienna, the most powerful country in the world was no doubt	C. Britain	32