Strayer Ch 17: Atlantic Revolutions and Their Echoes

All of the following questions emerged from the ideas of the Atlantic Revolutions EXCEPT: 

• Are liberty and equality compatible?
• What form of government best ensures freedom?
• Should liberty be given to all people in the nation?
• Should monarchs only be male?

How much autonomy did the British colonies in America have in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, before the conflict that led to American independence?

• None at all
• Just a little 
• A large amount
• Varied widely from colony to colony

What kind of wholesale social transformation followed in the wake of theAmerican Revolution? 

• Land was taken from wealthy landowners and redistributed to the poor farmers
• Slaves were given freedom.
• Women were given total equality.
• None; the elites within the colonies remained in power.

What is one important way in which the French Revolution differed from the American Revolution? 

• The French Revolution involved a dispute over money; the American Revolution involved a dispute over rights.
• The French Revolution involved racial tensions; the American Revolution did not.
• The French Revolution involved a conflict between segments of the French society and economy; the American Revolution involved a conflict between colonies and a distant imperial power.
• The French Revolution involved a conflict between colonies and a distant imperial power; the American Revolution involved sharp tensions withinAmerican society.

Whom did the "Third Estate" of the Estates-General represent? 

• The clergy 
• The nobility
• The king
• The 98% of the population not in the clergy, nobility, or royal family

Which of the following best characterizes the course that the French Revolution followed between 1789 and 1794?

• Sudden radical change followed by a peaceful period of negotiation
• Chaos, terror, and extreme bloodletting from beginning to end
• Long periods of calm punctuated by sudden violent outbursts
• Increasing radicalization and use of violence by revolutionaries

Which of the following was NOT among the radical measures taken by the new Revolutionary government in France? 

• Creating an entirely new calendar with 1792 as Year One
• Granting independence to all French colonies
• Instituting a universal male draft to create the largest army in the world
• Replacing some churches with "Temples of Reason"

What impact did Napoleon Bonaparte have on the Revolution as leader of France from 1799 to 1814? 

• He continued to radicalize the goals of the Revolution.
• He reversed most of the achievements of the Revolution.
• He preserved its moderate elements, but got rid of its more radical changes.
• He cared little for the Revolution one way or another.

How did Napoleon spread the seeds of the French Revolution across Europe and Russia? 

• Through a massive propaganda campaign
• By calling a meeting of all European monarchs 
• By ignoring other nations and focusing only on France.
• By conquering most of Europe and instituting reforms similar to those in France

What best describes the result of Napoleon's conquest and reform of European lands? 

• The conquered were grateful to Napoleon.
• The conquered accepted many of the reforms, but revolted against French control.
• The conquered refused to accept the reforms and fought bitterly against French control.
• The conquered refused to accept the reforms, but passively accepted French control.