Chapter 22 Quiz A with Explanations

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. What led to growing numbers of people being involved in the Enlightenment?

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. Which eighteenth-century writer criticized European society through his work The Persian Letters?

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. What was the main argument of eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith in his work On the Wealth of Nations?

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. Why were salons and coffeehouses important during the Enlightenment?

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. Why did eighteenth-century monarchs like Frederick the Great make use of Enlightenment ideas?

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. How did the Bourbon Reforms affect the Catholic Church in Spain and the colonies during the eighteenth century?

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. The expense of the Seven Years' War in the eighteenth century led the British government to

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. The colonists were able to force the British to surrender at Yorktown in 1781 with the important help of

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. What contributed to the collapse of the French monarchy in 1789?

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. In 1789, what did the French National Assembly do to improve commercial activity?

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. How did Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety justify its violent campaign, starting in 1793, to eliminate all the enemies of the revolution?

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. How did the position of French women change as a result of the Code Napoleon issued at the beginning of the nineteenth century?

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. What was the purpose of the 1814-1815 Congress of Vienna?

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. What initiated uprisings in Latin America after 1808?

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. Why did the rebellion in Mexico, first led by Father Miguel Hidalgo and then by other mulatto, mestizo, and creole leaders, fail to remove the colonial government by 1815?

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. What role did caudillos play in rebellions against Spanish rule in South America in the early nineteenth century?

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. Which independence leader called for the creation of a unified South America called Gran Columbia in the early nineteenth century?

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. During the mid-eighteenth century, the Great Awakening emerged from which faith in Britain and North America?

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. What was the significance of the alliance between the Wahhabis and the house of ibn Sa'id in the late eighteenth century?

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