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France history study guide

Unit III Study Guide

France___ was dominant in the military, political, and cultural spheres, it has been called the “century of genius,” it saw Englandtorn by political and social unrest—all regarded le grand siecle—the seventeenth century.
The meeting of the Estates General in 16_14 was significant because no such meeting was held again until 1789.
While he served as the real power in France, Cardinal Richelieu’s___ paramount in goal was the establishment of the French throne as truly absolute.
The Fronde__________ was essentially a power struggle between Mazarin and the privileged nobles of France.
The political situation in ______England__________ after the Glorious Revolution can be described by this quote—“In the legislature, the people are a check upon the nobility, and the nobility a check upon the people…while the king is a check upon both….”
A significant consequence of ____________Louis XIV’s_____ revocation of the Edict of Nantes was an economic and military weakening of France.
The __Jansenists__________ were a conservative movement within the Catholic Church.
The chief spokesman of mercantilism in France was ___Colbert__________.
A nation must avoid dependency on others for imported goods, the nation’s economy requires centralized planning, guilds serve as barriers to a strong economy, were all concepts that a mercantilist would support.
Racine______________ was NOT involved in the important military advances that took place in France under Louis XIV.
In seeking to establish France’s “natural frontiers,” Louis XIV’s main military thrust was toward __________Germany_____ and the Low Countries____.
England became an even more bitter fore of France following the ascension to the English throne of Mary, James II’s daughter, and her husband, William III of Orange_________________________.
The Grand Alliance was formed to prevent the union of France___________________ and Spain______________________.
The War of the Spanish Succession saw France lose this region in the New World to England…._Nova Scotia______________________.
England acquiring Quebec WAS one of the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht__.
The ____________Asiento___________ referred to the right to control the slave trade of Spain’s New World holdings.
While “Puritanism” encompassed a number of religious groups, its core was based on the doctrines of ____Zwingli________________ and Calvin_______________________.
James I Stuart_______________________________ came into conflict with his Parliament over efforts to wed his son to a Spanish princess.
In 1628 the English Parliament passed the Petition of Rights______ (“ the Stuart Magna Carta”) which put significant constitutional limitations on the Crown.
The Solemn League and Covenant was a union organized to defend Scottish Presbyterians______________________________.
Appointment of _____Oliver Cromwell__________________ as “Lord Protector” was NOT an enactment of the “Long Parliament.”
The “purge” conducted by _Colonel Thomas Pride______________ resulted in the exclusion of many Presbyterians from the House of Commons.
Charles I Stuart was brought to trial by the _Rump Parliament___________.
The Navigation Act___________________ of 1651, enacted under Oliver Cromwell, was designed to undermine the maritime trade of Holland.
The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell might best be described as a military regime.
In the course of the Puritan revolution, the concept of a form of communism was preached by the __Diggers___________________________.
The Religious Society of Friends is better known as the _Quakers________.
The “spark” which ignited the Glorious Revolution was the birth of a son to James II’s_____________________ second wife.
The lead in the revolt against James II Stuart was taken by the Whigs______.
The “Glorious Revolution” brought to the throne of England William and Mary.
The Bill of Rights___________ of 1689 affirmed the essential principle of parliamentary supremacy, frequent meetings of Parliament, and parliamentary control of the purse strings.
The Act of Settlement of 1701 clearly indicated Parliament’s power to make a king.
The battle of Boyne, fought between the supporters of the “Old Pretender” and the English, further embittered England’s relations with the Irish____.
Holding that man’s life in a “state of nature” and “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short,” he advocated the all-powerful state Thomas Hobbes____.
The most controversial thinker of the seventeenth century, his views on pantheism found few supporters until the era of romanticism, a century later…_____Baruch Spinoza________.
Georges de La Tour was NOT a leading French writer of the seventeenth century.
Baroque art of the seventeenth century has tended to be associated with the Catholic_______________________ Counter-Reformation.
The use of dim____ lighting and perspective is NOT a characteristic of the baroque period.
The Night Watch ______ and The Syndics________ of the Drapers Guild were two of the best known works of Rembrandt Van Rijn.
Sir Christopher Wren_________________ was best known for his design of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.
The first important operas, creations of the baroque age, were written in Venice______________________.
A steady improvement in the laborers’ standard of living was NOT a social trend in the seventeenth century.
The papacy was able to dominate politics in all the major European states was a statement regarding the Old Regimes of the eighteenth century and was NOT true.
The policy of cameralism_____ present in some states was designed to create more efficient state planning budgets.
Hoping to solve the problem of France’s large national debt, the brilliant financier John Law_______________________ increased the realm’s paper money backed by land and trade wealth.
The Mississippi Bubble_____________________ and South Sea Bubble_____________ showed that even large, government-related, investment companies could fail, seriously damaging private investors.
The introduction of new crops, the enclosure movement, and the adoption of the four-year rotation system contributed to advances in agricultural production in the eighteenth century.
The enclosure movement in England_____________ of the eighteenth century was designed to increase and consolidate crop lands.
Under the domestic system in England_____________________ spinning and weaving of yarn and cloth was done in the workers’ home.
The first major industrialization in England was made in textile manufacturing.
The policy of “salutary neglect” saw the British government permit a great deal of freedom to her colonial governments.
Robert Walpole_________________ was considered England’s first prime minister.
Little contact between the business and gentry classes existed is NOT true regarding English government and society in the eighteenth century.
In eighteenth century France a major stronghold of power for the noble class was the parlements_____________________.
Elizabeth Farnese____________________, queen of Spain, sought to gain lands for her sons in the Italian region.
The Treaty of Westphalia____________________ in 1648 showed the Holy Roman Emperor’s weakness in the German states.
The goal of Emperor Charles VI’s_____________ Pragmatic Sanction was to guarantee the succession of his daughter, Maria Theresa.
The abolition of serfdom in his lands was NOT a policy of the Great Elector of Bradenburg___________________.
As a result of his victory in the Great Northern War________________, Peter the Great gained access to the Baltic Sea for his country.
Russian society under Peter the Great_________________ saw state service for nobles.
Before the close of the eighteenth century, Poland_________________ ceased to exist as an independent unit.
As it grew weaker, the European territories of the so-called “sick man of Europe” became a center of conflict between Russia _____________ and Austria_____.
The liberum veto greatly weakened the power of its monarchs to govern Poland__________________________ efficiently.
The basic issue behind the War of Jenkin’s Ear________________ was the trade and smuggling in Spain’s New World colonies
As a result of the “Diplomatic Revolution,” Prussia_________________ and England_______________ became allies.
In the Seven Years’ War, Frederick the Great expanded his territories at the expense of Maria Thersa of Austria_________________________.
Robert Clive and Joseph Dupleix struggled to establish their nations’ influence in India___________________.
Kornilovs of Russia is NOT properly matched with nation and dynasty.
During the Seven Years’ War, England________________ switched sides.
In the years after 1713, the former Spanish holdings and its influence in Italy passed into the hands of Austria______________________.

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