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The under-industrialized nations of southern and eastern Europe:
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Provided food and raw materials for the industrial countries.
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Compulsory elementary education eventually created a new demand for:
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Teachers, female colleges, and newspapers.
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Compulsory elementary education did NOT create a new demand for:
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Religious Freedom.
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Public education helped make people more:
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Leisure oriented.
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Urban populations grew for the following reasons:
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More jobs brought people to the cities, improved living conditions in cities, and public works made urban life easier.
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Urban populations did NOT grow for the following reason:
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A desire to return to nature.
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The European middle classes tended to believe in the ideals of:
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Hard work and moral conduct.
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Russia opposed Austria-Hungary over the 1908 annexation of:
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Bosnia.
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The members of the Triple Alliance were:
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
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The strongest military and industrial power in Europe by 1888 was:
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Germany.
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The principal of ministerial responsibility states that:
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The prime minister is responisible to the legislative, not executive, body.
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Great Britians two party system in 1871 included:
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Liberals and Conservatives.
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The scientific method was:
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A systematic procedure, based on collecting and analyzing evidence, and crucial to the evolution of science.
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The scientific method was NOT:
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Reliant on the use of ancient authorities.
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Inductive reasoning involved:
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Proceeding from the particular to the general.
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Rene Descartes believed in one absolute truth:
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His own existence.
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Rationalism is the belief that:
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Reason is the cheif source of knowledge.
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Francis Bacon developed the:
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Scientific Method.
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Francis Bacon was a:
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Philosopher.
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Who wrote "The Wealth of Nations"?
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Adam Smith.
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In "The Wealth of Nations", the following roles were given to the government:
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Protection, public works, and defense.
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In "The Wealth of Nations", the government was NOT given the following role:
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Religion.
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Rosseau argued that society should be governed by:
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A social contract.
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Rosseau believed in:
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Education fostering natural instincts, rule of the general will, and balance of the heart and mind.
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Rosseau did not believe in:
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Abolition of the church.
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Who wrote "Encyclopedia"?
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Diderot.
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"Encyclopedia" was used to:
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Attack religious superstition.
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Monstesquieu's ideas were used in:
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The United States Constitution.
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In the War of the Austrian Succession:
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Prussia invaded Austria.
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Frederick the Great of Prussia:
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Enlarged the army.
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The concern of the eighteenth-century monarchs for a balance of power involved:
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Larger armies, expanded territory, and preventing domination by one state.
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The concern of the eighteenth-century monarchs for a balance of power did NOT involve:
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A desire for peace.
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Catherine the Great of Prussia DID:
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Favor the landed nobility, enlarge the Russian Empire, and expand serfdom.
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Catherine the Great of Prussia did NOT:
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Reform the law code.
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The first American consitution was the:
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Articles of Confederation.
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The three branches of government were:
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Judicial, executive, and legislative.
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The first consitution gave the national government:
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Too little power.
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The union of England and Scotland in 1707 created:
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The United Kingdom of Great Britian.
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The Second Estate DID:
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Own 25 to 30 percent of the land, hold high positions in the government and the military, and not pay taxes.
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The Second Estate did NOT:
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Side with the peasents.
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The Paris Bastille was:
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An armory and prison.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed:
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An end to tax exemptions, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen did NOT proclaim:
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Equal rights for women.
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The National Assembly's Consitution of 1791:
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Set up a limited monarchy.
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The Paris Commune demonstrated, then seized power for the following reasons:
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Defeats in war with Austria, economic shortages, and anger with the monarchy.
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The Paris Commune did not sieze power for the following reason:
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Loyalty to Prussia.
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The Reign of Terror set up revolutionary courts to prosecute:
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Enemies of the republic.
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