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1.France's representative at the Congress of was 7. At its most elementary Burkean level, a. Castlereigh. a. sought to preserve the achievements of previous b. Genet. generations by subordinating individual rights to c. Rousseau. communal welfare. d. Talleyrand. b. became the most popular political philosophy in Russia. e. Metternich. c. sought above all else the achievement of individual rights. d. was never popular among the political elite of 2. Metternich's "principle of legitimacy" was another term Europe. for e. championed individual rights and laissez-faire a. freedom of religion. government. b. economic . c. the sanctity of marriage. 8. The man long regarded as the George Washington of d. constitutional monarchy. Latin America is e. unfettered monarchy. a. José de San Martín. b. Simón Bolívar. 3. The c. Guillermo Pelgrón. a. gave Prussia complete control over Polish lands. d. Simón Carreño. b. created policies that would maintain the European e. George Washington. balance of power. c. failed to achieve long-lasting among European 9. The most important factor in preventing the European nations. overthrow of the newly independent nations of Latin d. treated France leniently following 's One America was . a. European economic collapse. e. sanctioned the political power of the bourgeoisie. b. the guiding American foreign policy. c. the sheer size of South America. 4. The foreign minister and diplomat who dominated the d. growing support for pacifism in Europe. Congress of Vienna was e. British naval power. a. Klemens von Metternich. b. Prince Talleyrand. 10. By 1824, which one of the following Latin American c. Tsar Alexander I. states had not become independent? d. Napoleon. a. Peru. e. Duke of Wellington. b. Paraguay. c. Uruguay. 5. Klemens von Metternich d. Colombia. a. supported much of the revolutionary ideology after e. Panama. Napoleon's defeat. b. thought that a free press was necessary to maintain 11. Which one of the following was the English political the status quo. party in power until 1830, the party that represented c. had little influence because of his extreme ? conservatism. a. . d. was anti-religious and supported atheistic causes. b. Republicans. e. believed European monarchs shared the common c. Checkers. interest of stability. d. Whigs. e. Democrats. 6. The author of Reflections on the Revolution in France and the founder of modern philosophical conservatism 12. By 1815, following the Congress of Vienna, the Italian was peninsula a. Viscount Castlereigh a. was entirely unified as a single country. b. . b. remained divided into several states subject to the c. Horatio Nelson. domination of other European powers. d. . c. had been devastated by the last campaigns of e. . Napoleon. d. had been completely annexed by Austria, a move confirmed by the Congress. e. sunk into complete anarchy and chaos.

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13. The growing forces of liberalism and in 19. J.S. Mill's On the Subjection of Women stated that central Europe were exemplified by the a. women should be kept in the home to improve men's a. increased liberal reforms of Frederick William III of chances of finding work. Prussia between 1815 and 1840. b. men and women did not possess different natures. b. national affinity and unity felt by the many Austrian c. Parliament should admit women members ethnic groups under Frederick II. immediately. c. liberal constitutions of the states of the German d. female convicts be shipped out to colonize Australia. Confederation. e. God and nature had ordained the permanent d. Burschenschaften, the student societies of . inferiority of women. e. the enlightened leadership of central European political elites. 20. Central to the liberal ideology in the nineteenth century was 14. The Karlsbad Decrees of 1819 did all of the following a. child labor laws. except b. the preservation of law and order. a. disband the Burschenshaften. c. an emphasis on individual freedom. b. impose on the German press. d. the buildup of a nation's military. c. placed most German universities under close e. the creation of a socialist community. government supervision. d. dissolved several smaller German states. 21. The growing movement of nationalism in nineteenth- e. placed restrictions upon university activities. century Europe a. was resisted by liberals, who felt that all ethnic 15. Following the death of Alexander I in 1825, Russian groups should live together harmoniously. society under Nicholas I became b. advocated the formation of one European nation to a. the most liberal of the European powers. end economic and military conflicts. b. rapidly industrialized. c. was radical since it encouraged people to shift their c. an industrial power after the abolition of serfdom. political loyalty away from existing states and rulers. d. increasingly influenced by ultra-conservative d. found its best expression in the writings of John societies, such as the Northern Union. Stuart Mill. e. a police state, as the czar feared both internal and e. declined after the Congress of Vienna. external revolutionary upheavals. 22. advocated a system of 16. The argument that population must be held in check for communities called any progress to take place was popularized by a. syndicates. a. Adam Smith. b. soviets. b. David Ricardo. c. communes. c. . d. phalansteries. d. Edmund Burke. e. social workshops. e. Thomas Malthus. 23. Charles X was overthrown in the 1830 17. David Ricardo's iron law of wages stated that because he a. wages would rise as competition eliminated a. got involved in one too many sordid scandals. inefficient producers. b. supported the interests of the aristocrats and Church. b. wages would decline as productivity drove prices c. was a victim of a vicious smear campaign by down. opponents. c. wages would stay low as workers bred more d. refused to convert to the Catholic faith. children. e. embezzled money meant to build churches. d. wages would rise as workers organized into unions. e. wages were irrelevant; only commodities like pig 24. King Louis-Philippe in France iron mattered. a. did all he could to help the impoverished industrial workers. 18. The foremost social group embracing liberalism was b. cooperated with François Guizot and the Party of made up by Resistance against the Party of Movement. a. factory workers. c. allowed for great reforms in the electoral system. b. the industrial middle class. d. was the son of the former King Charles c. radical aristocrats. X. d. army officers. e. died peacefully in France. e. the landed gentry.

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25. The most successful nationalistic European revolution in 31. The revolution of 1848 in France ultimately resulted in 1830 was in a. the continued rule of Louis-Philippe but with radical a. Poland. reforms. b. Germany. b. new elections to the national Assembly, resulting in c. Italy. the dominance of the radical republicans. d. the United Provinces. c. Europe's first under the guidance of e. . Blanc's workshops. d. a new French empire under Louis Napoleon. 26. The primary driving force in the revolutions of Belgium, e. the triumph of the . Poland, and Italy in 1830 was a. nationalism. 32. Louis Blanc's "national workshops" in France b. religion. a. became a vital part of the French . c. racism. b. were extremely important to the French radical d. . . e. . c. became little more than unemployment compensation units through public works projects. 27. The Polish national uprising of 1830 was crushed by d. built many national parks in France. a. France. e. turned the city of Paris into the "City of Lights." b. Prussia. c. Austria. 33. In 1848, the Frankfurt Assembly d. Russia. a. unanimously adopted a Grossdeutsch solution for e. Britain. the Germanies. b. succeeded in making Prussia's Frederick William IV 28. Which of the following statements best applies to president of a united Germany. Thomas Macaulay's thoughts on reform in Britain? c. failed in its attempt to create a united Germany. a. He opposed giving political concessions to the d. gained the support of Austria. middle class. e. declared its with revolutionary France. b. He was convinced that reforms were largely unnecessary due to Britain's democratic heritage. 34. The Frankfurt Assembly of 1848-1849 c. He supported reforms as a means of preventing more a. prevented a Communist revolution in Germany. radical revolutionary movements. b. negotiated peace with France. d. He was afraid reforms would cause the collapse of c. created Germany's first tariff union. the current Parliament and the political domination d. overthrew King Frederick William IV. of the landed elite. e. accomplished nothing at all. e. He adamantly opposed any and all political and social reforms. 35. 's nationalist organization, , 29. The Reform Bill of 1832 in Britain primarily benefited a. liberated Italy's northern provinces from Austrian the control. a. landed aristocracy. b. failed to achieve his goal of "resurgence" by 1849. b. peasants. c. helped inspire successful liberal constitutions c. working class. throughout Italy. d. clergy. d. used the liberals in governments to extend suffrage e. upper middle-class. to Italy's working classes. e. allied itself with the papacy to drive France out of 30. The English Poor Law of 1834 was based on the theory Italy. that a. the poor were entitled to decent levels of support. 36. Mazzini's risorgimento b. the rich had a moral obligation to support the poor. a. was largely successful in political terms. c. if the conditions of provision for state welfare were b. failed due to opposition of the French, the , intentionally made miserable, then the poor would and the pope. be encouraged to find profitable employment. c. became the basic ideology of contemporary German d. levels of state support for social welfare programs liberals. should be indexed to the cost of living. d. was most popular among the Italian middle classes. e. indoor relief was better than outdoor relief. e. succeeded in establishing a socialist society.

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37. Which one of the following brought an end to the Federalist 44. The American romantic author of The Fall of the House of party in the United States? Usher was a. Thomas Jefferson. a. Ralph Waldo Emerson. b. a scandal involving Federalists accepting bribes from b. . foreign intriguers. c. Edgar Allan Poe. c. the War of 1812, which Federalists had opposed. d. Herman Melville. d. the Lewis and Clark expedition, which Federalists had e. . not wanted to fund. e. Nothing; the party continued through the Jacksonian 45. The most important form of literary expression for the era. romantics was 38. Professional civilian police forces known as serjents first a. the essay. appeared in 1829 in b. poetry. a. Germany. c. the novel. b. Russia. d. the play. c. Italy. e. the monograph. d. Bavaria. e. France. 46. Which of the following were major themes/subjects of Romantic artists? 39. London's police were called "bobbies" because a. portraits a. on their horses they seemed to "bob" above the crowd b. Madonnas and religious scenes like an apple in a barrel. c. landscapes and depictions of nature b. no one knows the reason. d. scenes from aristocratic family life c. the legislation to create them was introduced by Robert e. urban scenes. Peel. d. the first officer sworn into duty was named Bob. 47. Romanticism in art and music was well characterized by e. that way they would have a nickname. a. Chateaubriand, whose many paintings anticipated the Impressionist movement. 40. Regular police forces and prison reform were geared b. Beethoven, whose compositions bridged the gap toward between Classicism and Romanticism. a. the creation of more disciplined and law-abiding c. Delacroix, who broke classical conventions by using societies. only blacks and whites in his paintings. b. appeasing the public outcry against the barbarism of the d. Friedrich, whose "program" music played upon the ordeal and the rack. listeners' emotions. c. protecting the poor from exploitation by rich e. Bach, whose organ music inspired the hearer's feelings. businessmen. d. adding an element of fear to society for psychological 48. In architectural styles, the Romantics were particularly manipulation of mass populations. attracted to the e. ensuring the continuance of oligarchic government. a. Gothic. b. Baroque. 41. All of the following were characteristics of Romanticism c. Neo-classical. except d. Post-Modernist. a. a strong, pantheistic worship of nature. e. Renaissance. b. the rejection of the supernatural and unfamiliar. c. a preoccupation with sentiment, suffering, and self- 49. The Romantic artist whose paintings were described as sacrifice. "airy visions, painted with tinted steam" was d. a reverence for history that inspired nationalism. a. Friedrich. e. a reaction to the excesses of the Industrial Revolution. b. Turner. c. Delacroix. 42. The literary model for early Romantics was d. Watteau. a. The Last Days of Socrates, by Plato. e. Berlioz. b. Quixote, by Cervantes. c. Great Expectations, by Dickens. 50. Religion in the age of Romanticism experienced d. The Sorrows of the Young Werther, by Goethe. a. a Catholic revival especially in Germany. e. Reflections, by Edmund Burke. b. loss of faith among many artists and intellectuals. c. a decline in in England. 43. The romantic movement can be viewed as a(n) d. the mass popularization of eastern mystery religions in a. reaction against the Enlightenment's preoccupation with Europe. reason. e. a return to Deism. b. continuation of Enlightenment ideals and practices. c. attempt to create a socialist society. d. movement of lower-class, less literate people. e. fascination with war and conflict.