Battle Royale Review• Alternating turns, each team will select one member to

answer the question in a head-to-head format.• That person will pick their opponent from the opposing team

and the category of question.• If they buzz in first and get the answer correct, they earn a

point for their team. • If their opponent buzzes in first (or if they get it wrong and

their opponent gets it correct), the opponents team gets 2 points

• Once a student participates in a battle, they may not compete again until everyone on their team has had an opportunity.

1750-1900 Battle Royale

American Revolution

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Enlightenment

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Vocabulary

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French Revolution

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1. The American nation’s first constitution was called the _______, and was largely _____.

a) Rights of Man... insignificantb) Constitution of the United States of

America... inspiringc) Articles of Confederation... ineffectived) Bill of Rights... effective

2. Which was NOT one of the causes of the American Revolution?

a) Taxation without representationb) Extreme poverty and faminec) An end to salutary neglectd) Tyranny and political oppression

3. In an effort to avoid the tyranny that drove them to revolution, the framers of the U.S. Consitution developed a _________ to divide up power.

a) secularizationb) federal systemc) arbitrary form of governmentd) proletariat

4. Which best explains why the American colonists won their revolution?

a) They were better armed and had better battle strategies.

b) The British were also fighting wars in France and Haiti at the same time.

c) The Americans fought a “war of attrition,” wearing down the British will to continue fighting.

d) All of the above.

5. Who was NOT an influential leader in the American Revolution?

a) Thomas Paineb) Francis Baconc) George Washingtond) Thomas Jefferson

1. Isaac Newton’s universal law of gravitation

a) was denounced by the Anglican Church as the work of the Devil.

b) refuted Galileo Galilei’s theory of universal movement.

c) was laughed at by Galileo, Kepler, and Copernicus.

d) showed how one law could explain all motion in the universe.

2. What did Adam Smith propose in The Wealth of Nations?

a) The government has a major stake in business, and should take over business.

b) The government is corrupt and should be overthrown and replaced by the working class.

c) The government should interfere as often as possible in business to assure its success.

d) All property should be owned collectively by the people.

e) The government should refrain from interfering in business.

3. Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, believed scientists should

a) use inductive reasoning.b) leave nature alone.c) rely solely on the Bible.d) use chance to study nature.

4. Voltaire’s concept of Deism

a) rejected the idea of a God.b) was the basis for Communism.c) challenged the view that a higher power

continues to intervene with humanity.d) rejected Enlightenment ideals to place more

emphasis on the role of a higher power intervening in the lives of humans.

5. In her work A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that fighting tyranny for the equal rights of men, but not women, was just as _____ as the abuse of power of monarchs.

a) arbitraryb) liberalc) secularizedd) rational

1. Following the Napoleonic Wars, the monarchs of Europe joined together at the Congress of Vienna to

institute a general policy of _____________ to prevent future outbreaks of revolution in Europe.

a) coup d’etatb) laissez-fairec) inductive reasoningd) conservatism

2. ____ is the belief that people should be as free as possible from government restraints.

a) Nationalismb) Industrial capitalismc) Monoculturalismd) Liberalism

3. The illustration on the RIGHT illustrates the ______ model of the universe.

a) Ptolemaicb) Helioecentricc) Geocentricd) Napoleonic

4. Napoleon Bonaparte became leader of France through

a) A coup d'état.b) The Congress of Vienna.c) The Enlightenment.d) Laissez-Faire.

5. What is Deism?

a) Religious philosophy based on reason in which a creator god no longer intervenes in human affairs.

b) Political system in which a people are ruled democratically through a constitution.

c) Scientific theory that nature can be defined by its physical properties and natural laws.

d) Enlightenment belief that all classes of people deserve complete equality.

1. The French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was

a) a promise to destroy all of the nation’s tennis bracelets.

b) a vow to continue to meet until they had produced a French constitution.

c) an oath of loyalty to Jean Valjean, an outspoken lawyer that called for doing away with the relics of feudalism.

d) a promise not to rest until all members of the clergy were tried and executed.

2. Which of France’s estates was NOT exempt from the taille (taxation)?

a) the First Estate (clergy)b) the Third Estate (commoners)c) the Second Estate (nobility)d) the Fourth Estate (middle class)

3 The Russians defeated Napoleon’s superior Grand Army by

a) retreating hundreds of miles and burning their own villages and countryside.

b) waiting to attack during the brutal Russian winter.

c) splitting their meager forces in half and attacking from two sides.

d) making an alliance with Egypt, which launched an attack on Turkey to draw Napoleon out of Russia.

4. Which event occurred first in the French Revolution?

a) The Tennis Court Oathb) The storming of the Bastillec) The execution of Louis XVId) Napoleon Bonaparte’s Civil Code

5. Which of the following was a major cause of the French Revolution?

a) A drastic reduction in monarchical expenditures.

b) Massive debt incurred while fighting the Seven Years’ War and American Revolution.

c) High tax rates that forced many nobles to simply stop paying their taxes.

d) Napoleon Bonaparte’s coup d’etat.