What was the Old Regime of France?
A) The nobility advising the king in France
B) The French monarch having absolute power with centralized authority, and legal privileges for the nobility and the clergy
C) The nobles of the hat that purchased their governmental positions to serve the whims of the French monarch
D) The governmental body that provided religious toleration for all under French rule
E) The traditional order of politics in society, with a monarch aided by Parliament
B
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a. was motivated by naive democratic idealism. b. was necessary to maintain an international balance of power. c. was designed to create an informal empire that would guarantee American economic dominance of foreign markets and investments. d. sought to build a colonial political empire. e. was motivated by racist "civilizing" to conquer and Christianize "primitive" blacks, Indians, and Latin American Spanish populations.
In 1750, only about ________ Africans were enslaved in Spanish Florida.
A. 300 B. 50 C. 200 D. 100
__________ sought reform in the Soviet Union through perestroika and glasnost.
a. Konstantin Chernenko b. Yuri Andropov c. Mikhail Gorbachev d. Leonid Brezhnev
The most striking result of the French Revolution was
A) its destruction of industrial growth in the Habsburg Empire. B) its achievement of liberty for all. C) its reduction of western European economic dependence on Russia. D) its violent disturbance of the old orders in Europe. E) none of the above.