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The philosophers believed the most important function of philosophy was to pursure

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The rational study of human behavior

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The cahiers, the grievance petitions drawn up by the local parishes

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raised expectations of change

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The program of public safety advocated by the sams-culottes included

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The putting-out system proved inadequate to mass production because

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merchants could not adequately control the laborers

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The delegates elected to represent the Third Estate in the Estates General were primarily

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Lawyers and Officials

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Among the characteristics of popular literature for the masses in the eighteenth century were

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religiosity and entertainment

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Among the barriers to industrialization in early modern Europe were

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The French Revolution was precipitated by

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the impending bankruptcy of the monarchy

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In the eighteenth century, the principal economic activity of the Netherlands was

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banking and finance

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Which of the following did not contribute to England's advantage over France in the advance of industrialization?

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The equal division of land among the heirs to noble families

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Which of the following was not a reform measure carried out by the Assembly between 1789 and 1791?

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granting universal suffrage

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Rousseau's most important concept in The Social Contract was that

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government must be based on voluntary participation by citizens, not simply by the accident of history or inheritance

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The French Revolution became violent because

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Legislation passed by the Assembly in 1790

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nationalized Church property and issued paper money back by the land

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Which was not true of the foreign policy of the French Republic?

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the Revolutions leaders set out consciously to overthrow the "old regime" across Europe

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In the eighteenth century, primary schooling was designed to

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reinforce the traditional social order

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The French fiscal crisis was caused by

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The competition for overseas commercial empires in the eighteenth century was primarily between

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Britain and France

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Mary Wollstonecraft argued that

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Which phrase is associated with Montesquieu's idea on good government?

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balance of powers among executive, legislature, and judiciary

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The most important outcomes of the Seven Years War was/were the

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loss of French Canada to Britain and exclusion of French troops from the Indian subcontinent

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The Physiocrats believed that economic progress could best be achieved by

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free trade

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French and British colonial policies were similar in all but which of the following ways?

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both ran their colonies with tight supervision from the home country

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Pierre Bayle's Critical and Historical Dictionary

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subjects the claims of religion to the test of critical reason

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Mortality rates of slaves during the Middle Passage ranged from

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ten to fifty percent

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Which word for discussing nineteenth -century social categories is most appropriate?

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class

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Defeat at the hands of Napoleon prompted the Prussian monarchy to

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open some positions in the bureaucracy and the military to non-nobles

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The goals of the Directory were to

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Napoleon was seen by some as an heir of the Revolution because of

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his commitment to equality of opportunity

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The French Revolution and the Napoleonic decades contributed to the industrialization of nineteenth-century Europe in all but which of the following ways

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the Continental System had stimulated economic growth

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The most important thing about the 1832 Reform Bill in Britain was that it

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created a national standard for representation

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John Stuart Mill argued that

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When Napoleon fled Elba and returned to France in March 1815

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In 1807, at Tilsit, Napoleon agreed to share predominant influence in Europe with the ruler of

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Russia

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The nineteenth-century middle class

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dominated science, commerce, and culture in the nineteenth century

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Which country did not experience a violent revolt in the revolutionary period around 1830?

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Russia

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Which statement is true about nineteenth-century industrial workers?

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working conditions made them highly susceptible to diseases such as tuberculosis

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Which best describes the fortunes of political reformers in Spain and Italy, in the decade after the fall of Napoleon?

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revolts in favor of a constitutional government were put down by outside forces

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Which best describes the extent of the disaster that befell the Grand Army in Russia?

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only 100,000 of 600,000 survived

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The constitutions established in much of Western Europe in the 1830's

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allowed for a sharing of power between monarchs and propertied interests

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Robespierre fell from power because

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Napoleon first made his reputation as an inspired leader of armies while fighting in

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Italy

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Trade Unions

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were banned except in England and were preceded by friendly societies

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Which of the following was not important in the population surge of the nineteenth century?

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improvements in medicine

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In middle-class families of the nineteenth century

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Which is true of nineteenth-century European aristocrats?

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in some parts of Europe they cooperated with liberal reformers

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After the fall of Napoleon, France

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kept many changes of the revolutionary and Napoleonic regimes

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The class that benefited most from industrialization was

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the middle class

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Napoleon's Concordat with the papacy contained all but which of the following provisions

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lands confiscated and sold during the Revolution were to be returned to the Church?

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Which of the following is true of changes in the standard of living in the first half of the nineteenth century?

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