Global Studies Unit 2 Test Review

Which claim is best expresses the ideas of John Locke?

• The people should give up their liberty to create an orderly society.

• People have the right to rebel if their natural rights are denied.

• Governments should be obeyed regardless of their actions.

• Liberty can only be guaranteed in a direct democracy.

What problem did Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges express in their writing?

• oppressive rule by kings believing in divine right

• exclusion of women from political reforms

• threat posed by foreign enemies

• extensive debts accumulated during the war

Identify a political impact of Napoleon’s conquests in Europe.

• The French empire directly or indirectly controlled most of western Europe

• The French empire lost colonies

• France conquered Russia

• Napoleon’s empire grew only through peaceful treaties with neighboring powers.

Which pair of individuals played a direct role in the nationalistic changes that took place in Italy.

• Otto Von Bismarck and Wilhelm II

• Klemens von Metternich and Victor Emmanuel III

• Camillo di Cavour and Giuseppe Mazzini

• Alexander II and Frederick the Great

Which cause of the French Revolution in depicted in this cartoon?

• The creation of a classless society

• existence of a rigid class system

• revolution led by the clergy and nobility

• the majority holds all the power

Baron de Montesquieu wrote about which concept?

• natural rights

• consent of the government

• separation of powers

• social contract

Which stage of the French Revolution was considered radical?

• The Storming of the Bastille

• The publication of the Declaration of the Rights of Man

• The crowning of Napoleon as emperor

• The Reign of Terror

Toussaint L'Ouverture led a slave revolt in which nation?

• Haiti

• Italy

• Germany

• France

Which nationalist movement attempted to solve the problem of Anti-Semitism?

• Italian Unification

• Zionism

• German Unification

• The French Revolution

One of Simon Bolivar's goals was to

• become a monarch of the strongest country in South America

• break off diplomatic relationships with Europe

• form one nation that unifies all of South America

• convince Mexico to join in the fight against Spain