The Armada disaster in 1588
a. led to the swift decline of the Spanish Empire overseas.
b. let to anti-Catholic pogroms in England.
c. tipped the scales in favor of Dutch Protestant rebels against colonization at the hands of the Spanish.
d. Established Great Britain as a world power.
C
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Why were Eastern European monarchs like Frederick II of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia more comfortable with Enlightenment ideas than some Western European monarchs?
a) They could use the new ideas of men like Voltaire and Denis Diderot to strip nobles and clergy of their entrenched power. b) They could use the ideas of Voltaire and others to build new economies for their societies. Consider This: Frederick and Catherine offered refuge to Voltaire when he was hounded by the French police. See 5.3: The Republic of Letters. c) They could use the ideas of Charles-Louis de Montesquieu and Cesare Beccaria to reorganize their legal systems. Consider This: Frederick and Catherine offered refuge to Voltaire when he was hounded by the French police. See 5.3: The Republic of Letters. d) They could embarrass their Western European rivals by appearing more tolerant than they were. Consider This: Frederick and Catherine offered refuge to Voltaire when he was hounded by the French police. See 5.3: The Republic of Letters.
In both Canada and the United States, Amerindian cultural assimilation was forcibly promoted by
a. the government-dictated supply of alcohol to reservations. b. the industrialization of buffalo hunting. c. sending children away from family and traditional settings to residential schools. d. high interest rates charged for loans. e. the prohibition of all use of Amerindian languages.
Which 1844 presidential candidate ran on a platform calling for the simultaneous annexation of Texas and Oregon?
A) Henry Clay B) James K. Polk C) Martin Van Buren D) John Tyler E) James G. Birney
A fief was
a. a small, nonhereditary manor. b. any estate governed by a hereditary lord. c. any small and independent kingdom. d. a Germanic peasant. e. a grant of land exchanged for a sworn oath to provide military service.