What did Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau achieve?
a. It created new ranks of intendants to govern various regions of France.
b. It revoked the earlier Edict of Nantes and curtailed the rights of French Protestants.
c. It established new standards of court etiquette and was intended to diminish the power of great nobles.
d. It removed most French bishops from their sees and replaced them with nobles to strengthen Louis' control of the French Catholic Church.
e. It moved the Estates General from Paris to Fontainebleau.
b
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A) ?native groups who wanted to stay out of the American Revolutionary War. B) ?former slaves who wanted to fight as mercenaries. C) ?colonists who wanted to avoid taking a side in the American Revolutionary War. D) ?neutral European nations that wanted their ships to travel and trade freely. E) ?merchants in the British Caribbean who did not want to get caught in the violence of the American Revolutionary War.
After the fall of the shogunate, the
a. hereditary rights of the daimyo were strengthened. b. the mass of the rural population was transformed from indentured serfs into yeoman farmers. c. samurai quickly became impoverished. d. emperor now actually guided governmental activities, in sharp contrast to the status of his predecessors under the Tokugawa regime. e. last Tokugawa shogun became the permanent Prime Minister.
What nations were created by the 1919 Paris Peace Conference?
A. Paraguay and Pakistan B. Pakistan and Bulgaria C. Czechoslovakia and Poland D. Serbia and Greece. E. Finland and Bulgaria.
When Joseph McCarthy first leveled charges of communist infiltration in the government, he was a
A. first-term Republican senator. B. Democratic member of the House. C. member of the State Department. D. member of the Defense Department. E. private citizen.