Unit 8 Political Revolutions

After the Glorious Revolution, England adopted a Bill of Rights which-

• Established a parliament

• eliminated the monarchy

• limited the power of kings

• required a conversion to Catholicism

All of the following were causes of the French Revloution except-

• censorship of the press

• an unfair system of taxation

• wastefulness of the monarchy

• special privileges for the nobility

How did the 1689 English Bill of Rights contribute to the development of democracy?

• it limited the term of the monarch

• it abolished the role of the monarch

• it restricted the power of the monarch

• it required the election of the monarch

The social and political unrest of the French Revolution set the stage for the-

• rise of Napoleon

• rule of the Jacobins

• revival of feudalism

• rivalry of the aristocrats

The French Revolution and the American Revolution shared all of the following causes except-

• influence of Enlightenment thought

• thoughtless and indebted monarchs

• weakening of the Catholic Church

• growing the middle class

The principal of the Declaration of Independence that had the most influence on the French Revolution was the -

• right to own property

• authority to overthrow a monarch

• guarantee of certain basic human rights

• promise of equality among social classes

The revolutionary movement led by Simon Bolivar was influenced by--

• Adam Smith's free-market principles

• ideas about government promoted during the Enlightment

• Karl Marx's criticism of industry society

• religious ideas introduced during the Great Awakening

One similar results of the American and French Revolution was that in both countries--

• the citizens gained more political rights

• the wealth of Catholic Church increased

• the revolution produced a new social order

• the kings were able to maintain absolute power

British colonists in the America's were familiar with limited government because--

• many of the Enlightenment philosophes were British

• they had studied the political systems established by American Indian tribes

• the Glorious Revolution had established a constitutional monarchy in Britain

• French soldiers fighting in the American Revolution educated the British about monarchies

A major contributing factor to the start of an independence movement in the American colonies was--

• the failure of the colonists to follow the British laws

• a disagreement over the use of enslaved labor in the colonies

• a worsening famine brought about by poor harvests in the colonies

• the lack of representation of the colonists in the British parliament