Battle Royale Review

1. Battle Royale Review • Alternating turns, each team will select one member to answer the question in a head-to-head format. • That person will pick their opponent from the opposing team and the category of question. • If they buzz in first and get the answer correct, they earn a point for their team. • If their opponent buzzes in first (or if they get it wrong and their opponent gets it correct), the opponents team gets 2 points • Once a student participates in a battle, they may not compete again until everyone on their team has had an opportunity.

2. 1750-1900 Battle Royale Enlightenment 1 2 3 4 5 American Revolution 1 2 3 4 5 Vocabulary 1 2 3 4 5 French Revolution 1 2 3 4 5

3. 1. The American nation’s first constitution was called the _______, and was largely _____. • Rights of Man... insignificant • Constitution of the United States of America... inspiring • Articles of Confederation... ineffective • Bill of Rights... effective

4. 2. Which was NOT one of the causes of the American Revolution? • Taxation without representation • Extreme poverty and famine • An end to salutary neglect • Tyranny and political oppression

5. 3. In an effort to avoid the tyranny that drove them to revolution, the framers of the U.S. Consitution developed a _________ to divide up power. • secularization • federal system • arbitrary form of government • proletariat

6. 4. Which best explains why the American colonists won their revolution? • They were better armed and had better battle strategies. • The British were also fighting wars in France and Haiti at the same time. • The Americans fought a “war of attrition,” wearing down the British will to continue fighting. • All of the above.

7. 5. Who was NOT an influential leader in the American Revolution? • Thomas Paine • Francis Bacon • George Washington • Thomas Jefferson

8. 1. Isaac Newton’s universal law of gravitation • was denounced by the Anglican Church as the work of the Devil. • refuted Galileo Galilei’s theory of universal movement. • was laughed at by Galileo, Kepler, and Copernicus. • showed how one law could explain all motion in the universe.

9. 2. What did Adam Smith propose in The Wealth of Nations? • The government has a major stake in business, and should take over business. • The government is corrupt and should be overthrown and replaced by the working class. • The government should interfere as often as possible in business to assure its success. • All property should be owned collectively by the people. • The government should refrain from interfering in business.

10. 3. Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, believed scientists should • use inductive reasoning. • leave nature alone. • rely solely on the Bible. • use chance to study nature.

11. 4. Voltaire’s concept of Deism • rejected the idea of a God. • was the basis for Communism. • challenged the view that a higher power continues to intervene with humanity. • rejected Enlightenment ideals to place more emphasis on the role of a higher power intervening in the lives of humans.

12. 5. In her work A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that fighting tyranny for the equal rights of men, but not women, was just as _____ as the abuse of power of monarchs. • arbitrary • liberal • secularized • rational

13. 1. Following the Napoleonic Wars, the monarchs of Europe joined together at the Congress of Vienna to institute a general policy of _____________ to prevent future outbreaks of revolution in Europe. • coup d’etat • laissez-faire • inductive reasoning • conservatism

14. 2. ____ is the belief that people should be as free as possible from government restraints. • Nationalism • Industrial capitalism • Monoculturalism • Liberalism

15. 3. The illustration on the RIGHT illustrates the ______ model of the universe. • Ptolemaic • Helioecentric • Geocentric • Napoleonic

16. 4. Napoleon Bonaparte became leader of France through • A coup d'état. • The Congress of Vienna. • The Enlightenment. • Laissez-Faire.

17. 5. What is Deism? • Religious philosophy based on reason in which a creator god no longer intervenes in human affairs. • Political system in which a people are ruled democratically through a constitution. • Scientific theory that nature can be defined by its physical properties and natural laws. • Enlightenment belief that all classes of people deserve complete equality.

18. 1. The French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was • a promise to destroy all of the nation’s tennis bracelets. • a vow to continue to meet until they had produced a French constitution. • an oath of loyalty to Jean Valjean, an outspoken lawyer that called for doing away with the relics of feudalism. • a promise not to rest until all members of the clergy were tried and executed.

19. 2. Which of France’s estates was NOT exempt from the taille (taxation)? • the First Estate (clergy) • the Third Estate (commoners) • the Second Estate (nobility) • the Fourth Estate (middle class)

20. 3 The Russians defeated Napoleon’s superior Grand Army by • retreating hundreds of miles and burning their own villages and countryside. • waiting to attack during the brutal Russian winter. • splitting their meager forces in half and attacking from two sides. • making an alliance with Egypt, which launched an attack on Turkey to draw Napoleon out of Russia.

21. 4. Which event occurred first in the French Revolution? • The Tennis Court Oath • The storming of the Bastille • The execution of Louis XVI • Napoleon Bonaparte’s Civil Code

22. 5. Which of the following was a major cause of the French Revolution? • A drastic reduction in monarchical expenditures. • Massive debt incurred while fighting the Seven Years’ War and American Revolution. • High tax rates that forced many nobles to simply stop paying their taxes. • NapoleonBonaparte’s coup d’etat.