World history homework help. Modern Europe
- Adam Smith was a big fan of tight government control over the economy (mercantilism). True or False?
- England defeated France in the Great War for Empire. True or False?
- England was the first nation to industrialize successfully. True or False?
- Frederick the Great was the least warlike of the enlightened absolute rulers. True or False?
- R. R. Palmer cites Geneva as an example of having a quasi revolutionary situation in the latter half of the 18th century. True or False?
- Author of Candide, which of the following Enlightenment thinkers could be called “Mr. Enlightenment”: Voltaire, Rousseau, or Wollstonecraft?
7 Jethro Tull invented the: puddling process, threshing machine, or wheat (seed) drill?
- Catherine the Great married into the dynastic family called the: Hohenzollerns, Romanovs, or Habsburgs?
- The war which went on at the same time as the Great War for Empire was the: 7 Years’ War, War of the Austrian Succession, or European War for American Independence?
- The outcome of the Wilkes Affair in England helped to secure a greater measure of: economic freedom, press freedom, or religious toleration?
- The decisive American revolutionary victory that led to the British surrender during the American Revolution was the Battle of: Rossbach, Yorktown, or the Plains of Abraham?
- Which of the following’s puddling process and rolling mill increased iron production: James Watt, Jethro Tull, or Henry Cort?
- The leading Enlightenment thinkers tended to be: Catholics, deists, or atheists?
- One area in which the enlightened absolute rulers Frederick, Catherine, and Joseph all actually followed an enlightened policy was in: religious toleration, trying to get rid of serfdom, or antimilitarism?
- The Frenchman who volunteered to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolution was: Voltaire, Rousseau, or Lafayette?
- The king who suffered from mental illness and whose eldest son eventually established a regency over him was: Frederick II, Joseph II, or George III?
- Which of the following was introduced to make a more productive use of the land as part of a four-crop rotation system: peas, potatoes, or turnips?
- The American revolutionaries were particularly influenced by the social contract theory of: John Wilkes, John Locke, or Thomas Hobbes?
- The enlightened absolute ruler called the “revolutionary emperor” because he or she tried to get rid of serfdom was: Joseph II, Frederick the Great, or Catherine the Great?
- The weakest example for the Palmer Thesis is: the American Revolution, the Genevan Republic, or England?