World History Common Assessment #2 - CP
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- Q1When Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General in 1789, which estate wanted to set up a constitutional government?First EstateSecond EstateThird Estate30s
- Q2What was Montesquieu's most lasting contribution to political thought?System of checks and balances28-volume encyclopediaLaissez-faire30s
- Q3What was the goal of Napoleon's Continental System?Cut off trade between Britain and EuropeCodify laws throughout EuropeConquer Russia30s
- Q4Which belief states that people should be as free as possible from government restraints?Industrial capitalismLiberalismNationalism30s
- Q5Where was Napoleon defeated for the final time?Annecy in FranceMoscow in RussiaWaterloo in Belgium30s
- Q6What was the most important invention during the Industrial Revolution that allowed machines to run?Water-powered loomFlying ShuttleSteam Engine30s
- Q7What was the time period where new thoughts were flowing on how people should be governed?Industrial RevolutionScientific RevolutionThe Age of Enlightenment30s
- Q8John Locke argued that the natural rights of peopleexist apart from any governmentare forfeited when they enter into a contract with governmentexist only in the state of nature30s
- Q9In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?Great BritainItalySpain30s
- Q10Monarchs who practiced ________________ tried to govern by Enlightenment ideas.Enlightened absolutismSeparation of powersSocial Contract law30s
- Q11Diderot was imprisoned fordissecting human corpsesthe publication of Encyclopediemocking the Church30s
- Q12Who believed that humans were naturally wicked, greedy and that government must establish order?John LockeVoltaireThomas Hobbes30s
- Q13Napoleon took part in the _________________ of 1799 that overthrew the Directory and set up a new government in France.Committee of Public SafetyEstates GeneralCoup d'etat30s
- Q14The attack on a Paris prison in 1789 by enraged French citizens was calledthe Tennis Court Oaththe Storming of the Bastillethe March on Versailles30s
- Q15Copernicus proposed thatthe sun is the center of the universethe force of gravity prevents objects from flying off the earththe planets move in oval paths30s