Atlantic Revolutions, Global Echoes, 1750

Chapter 16 Summative Quiz

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1. What did the Atlantic revolutions share in common?

The same outcome

Causes triggered by similar circumstances

A unified opposition to slavery

A common political vocabulary

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2. The Atlantic revolutions were inspired by the Enlightenment belief that political and social arrangements

were driven by economic forces.

could be improved by human action.

should be regulated by church authority.

were justified by the divine right of kings.

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3. In contrast to the American Revolution, the French Revolution

drew on Enlightenment ideas about liberty.

sought to re-create society from scratch.

sought to preserve existing liberties rather than to establish new ones.

experienced no participation by women.

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4. In response to Napoleon’s conquest and reform of European lands outside France, the people in the conquered lands

embraced Napoleon and the reforms.

accepted many of the reforms but revolted against French control.

refused to accept the reforms and fought bitterly against French control.

refused to accept the reforms but passively accepted French control.

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5. Which of the following was an effect of the Haitian Revolution throughout the Atlantic world?

The movement to abolish slavery collapsed as fear of free slaves grew.

Slave owners and whites were filled with a deep caution and fear.

Runaway slaves from Brazil, Jamaica, and Louisiana sought refuge in Haiti.

The French Revolution’s principles were discredited.

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6. Which of the following is true about women’s participation in the French Revolution?

Women took on leading roles in the revolutionary government.

Women were unified in their defense of Queen Marie Antoinette against the revolutionaries.

Women of all classes joined in the major events of the revolution.

Women repeatedly spoke out against the violence unleashed by the revolution.

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7. Which of the following was an outcome the Haitian Revolution?

Equality of citizenship for all whites

Definition of political citizenship as “black”

Establish of political rights for all

Entrance of women into the public sphere

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8. Which of the following is one reason why the Spanish American revolutions took longer and were more difficult than the North American Revolution?

Language barriers

Greater wealth in Spain than in Britain

Divisions of class, race, and region within Spanish America

Stability of the royal government in Spain

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9. Which of the following was a result of the end of slavery in the Atlantic world?

The economic prospects of former slaves greatly improved

Patterns of global migration shifted from the Atlantic to the Pacific

New forms of dependent labor like sharecropping emerged

Civil wars erupted in West and North Africa

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10. In the nineteenth century, nationalism in Europe fueled

the abolition of the slave trade.

the feminist movement.

a competitive drive for colonies in Asia and Africa.

the collapse of European overseas empires by the 1890s.

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11. Which of the following is an example of the influence of nationalism outside the Euro-American world in the nineteenth century?

The fragmentation of China into multiple national identities

The “Egypt for the Egyptians” movement

The dissolution of the Indian National Congress.

The notion of the Ottoman Empire as a Muslim dynasty

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12. Which of the following was used by intellectuals in nineteenth-century Europe to argue for women’s rights?

Civic nationalism

Maternal feminism

Biological differences

Social Darwinism