Western Civ II JCJC Midterm- Questions
& Answers
The Hasburgs ruled ________. Correct Ans-Austria
The Long Parliament attacked the power of the ________. Correct Ans-King
The most famous work of Denis Diderot was ________. Correct Ans-Encylcopedia
The part of the slave trade that included the voyage across the Atlantic was know as
what? Correct Ans-Middle Passage
The political order of the Old Regime was based on ________. Correct Ans-Monarchies
The Treaty of Paris (1763) ended what conflict? Correct Ans-Seven Years' War
Under the National Convention, the suffrage was extended in France to all ________. Correct
Ans-Males
What commodity dominated the trans-Atlantic trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries? Correct Ans-Sugar
What country held the largest overseas empire in 1650? Correct Ans-Spain
, What country originally claimed much of Canada, as well as the Ohio and Mississippi River
valleys? Correct Ans-France
What dynasty inaugurated under James I? Correct Ans-The Personal Rule
What event in France became the center of national celebrations after 1789? Correct Ans-
Storming the Bastille
What two countries fought in the War of Jenkins' Ear? Correct Ans-Britain and Spain
What was invented by James Hargreaves in 1767? Correct Ans-Spinning Jenny
What was the name of the French official who played the most important role in centralizing the
authority of the French monarch? Correct Ans-Richelieu
What was the name of the general who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo? Correct
Ans-Wellington
What was the name of the treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War in 1783? Correct
Ans-Treaty of Paris
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