COMPETITION FOR EMPIRE & ECONOMIC EXPANSION

Question 1

Which of the following occurred as a result of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) and the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763)?

A. Prussia emerged as an important economic and military power.
B. Sweden ceased to be a great power.
C. Russia extended its territory to the shores of the Baltic Sea.
D. Hapsburg claims to Polish territory were dropped.
E. France acquired the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine.

Answer 1

A. Prussia emerged as an important economic and military power.

Question 2

Which eighteenth-century ruler abolished punitive laws regarding Jews, imposed limits on the Catholic Church, and granted effective toleration to all Christian sects?

A. Louis XIV 
B. George III 
C. Catherine II 
D. Joseph II 
E. Charles III

Answer 2

D. Joseph II

Question 3

In the mid-eighteenth century, European population increased sharply for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

A. improved agricultural techniques 
B. improvements in medical care 
C. fewer famines 
D. a decline in the death rate 
E. a decline of the plague

Answer 3

B. improvements in medical care

Question 4

Which of the following became an agent of British imperialism in India during the eighteenth century?

A. The Holland Land Company 
B. The East India Company 
C. The West India Company 
D. The Hudson’s Bay Company 
E. The Company of Merchant Adventurers of London

Answer 4

B. The East India Company

Question 5

All of the following were results of the Treaty of Paris (1763) EXCEPT

A. Britain controlled much of India.
B. France retained most of its sugar colonies in the West Indies.
C. France suffered no decline in its overseas trade.
D. Britain emerged as the predominant sea power.
E. France had to give up its remaining North American mainland colonies.

Answer 5

C. France suffered no decline in its overseas trade.