World History B Module 3 Assignment 2

Why did many Protestants convert after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes?

• exemption from the dragonnades and to earn favor with Louis XIV

• financial rewards and exemption from the dragonnades

• to gain religious freedom and financial rewards

• to earn favor with Louis XIV and to gain religious favor

Protestants across Europe were horrified at the treatment of their fellow believers, and Louis’s public image in most of Europe, especially in Protestant regions, suffered greatly. Which of his actions caused such a strong reaction by European Protestants?

• the Edict of Tolerance

• the 1787 Edict of Versailles

• only Catholicism was legally tolerated

• all religions were legally tolerated

The Edict of Fontainebleau is compared by historians with which of the following events?

• the expulsion of Native Americans from their ancestral lands

• the expulsion of the American Tories after the American Revolution

• the expulsion of the Aztec from their empire in the Americas

• the expulsion of the Jews and Moriscos from Spain in the early 1600s

Which of the following did NOT contribute to Louis XIV maintaining sole power in France?

• planning elaborate ceremonies

• allowing private armies

• attaching nobles to his court at Versailles

• censorship

Louis XIV was not the only European monarch who believed in and practiced absolutism. What did this view of his power mean?

• He colluded with other royalty.

• Like Henry VIII, he founded his own church.

• He held power without limitations from laws or agreements.

• He was completely dependent on the Catholic Church.