Modern CFR Group #1 Quiz
American Revolution
1. What previous era of world history inspired the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Latin American
revolutions?
a. The Scientific Revolution
b. Industrial Revolution
c. Renaissance
d. Enlightenment
2. What was the main effect of French and Indian War?
a. Britain became the most dominant country globally, as France, the Dutch, and the Spanish were all on
the decline.
b. The French won all of Canada from the British.
c. The British began to dominate Latin America, and inspire revolutions to undermine Spanish colonies.
d. The French found new ways to surrender, preferring the ‘lay down our guns and have a baguette’
method most.
e. None of these.
3. Which one of these is NOT a cause of the American Revolution?
a. Excess British taxes levied on the colonies.
b. A lack of representation for American colonials in Parliament.
c. Martial law in cities such as Boston.
d. British alliances with Portugal and Russia.
4. A system in which political powers are divided between the national and state levels in an effort to avoid
concentrating control in the hands of one body or person.
a. Democratic system
b. Federalist system
c. Independence system
d. Bourgeois system
5. Did women earn the right to vote (suffrage) in the Modern Era in any Western European, North American, or
Latin American countries?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Maybe
d. Who’s suffering?
e. What is a woman?
6. Which of the following is true of the American Revolution?
a. It inspired the French Revolution & other Latin American Revolutions, such as in Haiti
b. It was a revolution by the colonial aristocracy in the British North American colonies
c. It forced a crackdown worldwide on colonial uprisings
d. It prompted the nation of Canada to revolt as well
French Revolution
7. A political meeting of the nobility, church officials, the bourgeoisie, and French peasants
a. National Assembly
b. Estates General
c. Reign of Terror
d. The Directory
8. Which one of these is true about France prior to the French Revolution?
a. It was a wealthy nation due to its colonial acquisitions
b. The French people enjoyed good representation in politics and were economically proficient
c. It was in massive debt due to wars with Britain and other European powers and needed new taxes
d. The French king was subject to the National Assembly, and thus the French people
9. The National Assembly called for the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, but its greatest achievement
a. Was the ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen’
b. Was the Reign of Terror
c. Was the power given to Jacobins
d. None of these
Napoleon
10. Napoleon brought _____________ to France after the events around King Louis XVI, the National Assembly, the
Reign of Terror, and the Directory.
a. Tumult
b. Stability
c. Plunder
d. Democracy
11. Napoleon took power in 1799
a. After a popular French election
b. After receiving a vote of confidence from the Directory
c. As Austria, Britain, and Russia allied to attack France
d. During the French Revolution itself, just after the storming of the Bastille
12. Napoleon eased tensions in France after taking power. Which of these best describes these peace-making
actions between rival factions in France?
a. He continued to persecute Catholics and favor Protestants, which the majority of French people agreed
with.
b. He raised the power of the National Assembly and made himself, the Consul, more subject to its laws
and decrees.
c. He made France an atheistic state, heavily persecuting religion, while rolling back powers of the National
Assembly.
d. He retained France’s Catholic Church, but kept their land holdings for the state, and reduced the
National Assembly’s power overall.
13. Against which two European countries did Napoleon suffer a defeat and not take over?
a. Britain and Russia
b. Russia and the Netherlands
c. Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Naples
d. Britain and Austrian Empire
14. Why did the Congress of Vienna meet?
a. To punish France by military occupation.
b. To replace the ‘balance of power’ Napoleon had disrupted.
c. To crown Napoleon’s son as a puppet ruler.
d. To organize a joint military campaign against the British
15. Which revolution was more successful and achieved its goals?
a. The American Revolution
b. The French Revolution
German/Italian Unification
16. Prussia’s rise in the 1860’s and 1870’s could be attributed to what leader?
a. Otto Von Bismarck
b. King Vittorio Emmanuele I
c. Count Camillo di Cavour
d. Karl Marx
17. Who did Prussia defeat in this time (1870’s), solidifying Prussian & German unification and raising its sense of
nationalism?
a. Italy
b. France
c. England
d. Russia
Latin American/Caribbean Revolutions
18. The Haitian Revolution began in the same year (1789), as the…
a. American Revolution
b. Belgian Revolution
c. French Revolution
d. Gran Columbian Revolution
19. Which two groups were infighting in Haiti in 1789, and allowed Toussaint L’Ouverture and other slaves to seize
the opportunity and revolt?
a. French aristocrats in France and Colonial French aristocrats in Haiti
b. The gens de couleur, or plantation owners, amongst themselves
c. The French Colonial army and the gens de couleur
d. French aristocrats and French Republican Colonial Forces
20. Despite the initial success of the Haitian Revolution, what word best describes Haitian politics following it?
a. Balanced
b. Egalitarian
c. Destabilized
d. Xenophobic
21. Why were creoles in Spanish Latin America into the idea of revolting against Spain?
a. Because the Spanish made policies that persecuted Creoles
b. Creoles were born in Spanish Latin America & felt that they should be independent because of it
c. Spain began passing laws in Latin America undermining creole rule and favoring the lower classes
d. None of these
22. Who ruled Latin America in place of King Ferdinand of Spain after Napoleon conquered Spain in the early
1800’s?
a. King Alfonso
b. Military juntas
c. Peninsulares
d. Mulattos
23. This Latin American revolutionary won battles in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador between 1817 and 1822.
Who is he?
a. Francois Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture
b. Simon Bolivar
c. Jose de San Martin
d. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
24. What did Bolivar and San Martin have in common, in regards to the aftermath of their respective revolutionary
victories?
a. They both were able to found stable democracies.
b. Both were later executed by the Spanish government.
c. Both could not keep regional factions from forming in their new countries.
d. Neither had support of slaves in their revolts.
25. What do the Brazilian and Mexican revolutions have in common?
a. Both were begun by men of the military
b. Both revolts ended in a monarchy that was soon overthrown again
c. Both were massively supported by the Catholic Church
d. Both were stopped by invasions from neighboring countries