3rd Quarter Exam (Chapter 16)

Question 1

Who founded the Plymouth Colony?

Answer 1

The Pilgrims

Question 2

Who did the Mayflower Compact govern?

Answer 2

The Pilgrims

Question 3

Where did the Puritans settle?

Answer 3

Near Boston

Question 4

What was the function of the Pilgrim/Puritan government?

Answer 4

to promote piety and restrain evildoers

Question 5

What was the goal of the Pilgrim/Puritan government?

Answer 5

to mold godly character

Question 6

What were the similarities between all the American colonies?

Answer 6

✪European background
✪Protestant heritage
✪respect for English common law
✪love for local self-government

Question 7

What was the original purpose for the Civil War?

Answer 7

they were fighting for the rights they already had, but were not getting

Question 8

What did the Tea Act do?

Answer 8

put a small tax on imported tea

Question 9

What did the Quebec Act do?

Answer 9

extended territory of former French colony

Question 10

How did the Colonists feel about war?

Answer 10

they feared war, but desired English rights

Question 11

What were some Colonial weaknesses?

Answer 11

✾small and poorly equipped army
✾suffered many hardships
✾met with several humiliating retreats

Question 12

What were some Colonial strengths?

Answer 12

❂determined leadership

❂personal motivation to defend homes

Question 13

What did the Treaty of Paris do?

Answer 13

☛gave the recognition of independence of American colonies

☛established the U.S. boundaries

Question 14

What was wrong with the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 14

◆states loosely tied together

◆states had too much power

Question 15

What was America’s “first Constitution”?

Answer 15

The Articles of Confederation

Question 16

What was established for the protection of personal rights?

Answer 16

the Bill of Rights

Question 17

In France, what determined one’s privileges and taxation?

Answer 17

social standing

Question 18

What were the French social classes?

Answer 18

First Estate
Second Estate
Third Estate

Question 19

Describe the French Estates.

Answer 19

First: Roman Catholic clergy
Second: nobility
Third: commoners and laborers

Question 20

Why were the French discontent?

Answer 20

☹social inequality
☹political inefficiency
☹economic irresponsibility

Question 21

Give examples of the economic irresponsibility in France.

Answer 21

$ unbalanced tax system

$ wasteful spending

Question 22

What did the commoners and nobility agree on?

Answer 22

they both wanted a written constitution

Question 23

What did the commoners and nobility not agree on?

Answer 23

the commoners wanted equal taxation, equal justice, and the destruction of feudalism

the nobility wanted the protection of rights and privileges

Question 24

Where did the National Assembly move to when they were sent away?

Answer 24

the Royal Tennis Court

Question 25

What was the preamble to the French Constitution?

Answer 25

Declaration of the Rights of Man

Question 26

What did the Declaration of the Rights of Man list?

Answer 26

natural rights of people as citizens

Question 27

Was the Declaration of the Rights of Man an “original document”?

Answer 27

No, they used other things like the Bill of Rights and stuff as a model.

Question 28

Compare the English, American, and French personal freedoms.

Answer 28

English freedom of speech, debate, and petition
American freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition
French “do anything that does not injure others”

Question 29

What forced the king to move back to Paris?

Answer 29

Bread Riots

Question 30

What did the French Constitution do?

Answer 30

☺ limited monarchy
☺guaranteed:
     equal taxes
     no special privileges
     fairer judicial system
     new governing body= Legislative Assembly

Question 31

What were the purposes for the Jacobins?

Answer 31

❍ to discuss political issues

❍ to distribute revolutionary propaganda

Question 32

Who were the leaders of the Jacobins?

Answer 32

Jean-Paul Marat
Georges-Jacques Danton
Maximilian de Robespierre

Question 33

What was the outcome of the National Convention?

Answer 33

◊abolished monarchy

◊established French Republic

Question 34

What were some changes made as a result of the French Revolutionary War?

Answer 34

◆Frances was divided into departments
◆they adopted the metric system
◆calendar changed
◆new religion - “cult of reason”

Question 35

What were the changes made to the calendar as a result of the French Revolutionary War?

Answer 35

10 day weeks
30 day months
12 month years

Question 36

What were some similarities between the American and French fight for independence?

Answer 36

➢influenced by Enlightenment ideas
➢encouraged the cause of liberty
➢struggled against oppressive governments

Question 37

What were some differences between the American and French fight for independence?

Answer 37

American:
➣tempted by Protestant-Puritan heritage
➣stressed responsibility of liberty
➣preserved time-honored traditions

French:
➣encouraged by rationalist leaders
➣emphasized liberty and total freedom
➣destroy everything from the Old Regime

Question 38

What were the American unpopular Measures?

Answer 38

→Tea Act
→”Intolerable” Acts
→Quebec Act

Question 39

What were the French unpopular Measures?

Answer 39

→new taxes
→debasement of the currency
→more borrowing

Question 40

What type of government did America end up with after the war?

Answer 40

a constitutional republic

Question 41

What type of government did France end up with after the war?

Answer 41

a dictatorship