Open Book Study Questions for Chapter 13
1. What precipitated the War of the Spanish Succession? What did Spain gain and
lose?
2. What is the Divine Right of Kings? Who first postulated this theory?
3. What was the Eighty Year’s War? What was its result?
4. What role is the Fronde play in shaping the policies of Louis XIV?
5. How did James I of England get around Parliament’s purse strings?
6. What were the foundations of Dutch prosperity in the seventeenth century?
7. What was the Petition of Right? What was its major provision?
8. What did Louis XIV mean when he declared: L’etat, c’est moi or “The state, I am
the state.”
9. Why was William Laud tried for treason and beheaded?
10. Outline the roles the Great Elector, Frederick I and Frederick William I played in
the growth of Prussia
11. Why did Parliament win the English Civil War?
12. What were the terms of the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699?
13. What were the provisions of the Clarendon Code?
14. How did Louis XIV deal with the Huguenots and the Jansenists?
15. What were the provisions of the Treaty of Dover?
16. What was the Popish Plot?
17. What was the Mississippi Bubble? How did it hurt France?
18. Why was the Glorious Revolution glorious?
19. What did Peter the Great accomplish?
20. What was accomplished by the Act of Settlement in 1701 and the Act of Union in
1707?
21. Give as many reasons as you can for the importance of Sir Robert Walpole?
22. What did Jean-Baptiste Colbert do for Louis XIV?
23. What did it mean to “explode the Diet?”
24. What did Austria gain as a result of the War of the Spanish Succession? And
Britain?
25. Charles V issued a Pragmatic Sanction which consolidated the Seventeen
Provinces under his rule but what was the Pragmatic Sanction of Charles VI?