Students: Throughout this competition, foreign Indiana Academic Super Bowl names and words may be used. If there are any discrepancies Social Studies Round between how a word/phrase should 2017 – Senior Division Coaches Practice be pronounced and what you see A Program of the Indiana Association of School Principals on the screen, the screen supersedes what is spoken. SD-CP-SS-1 SD-CP-SS-2 The “corporate” nature of late-18th Century All of the following problems dogged Louis France had what impact on France’s royal XVI’s government as it edged ever closer to government? bankruptcy. Though three of the problems A. allowed the monarchy to manipulate threatened the very foundations of the monarchy, the elimination of which one problem rivals by granting withholding privileges would have had almost no impact on the B. enabled the monarchy to govern with budgetary crisis? absolute ruthlessness A. lavish Versailles court C. forced the monarchy to seek the Estates B. military expenditures General’s approval of new taxes C. tax exemptions D. limited the monarchy’s ability to reform D. tax farms and farmers key political and social institutions SD-CP-SS-3 SD-CP-SS-4 Which one of the following French Which of the following phrases accurately describes the nobility or Third Estate of pre-revolutionary France and philosophes, celebrated by some as the contradicts traditional Marxist explanations of the French greatest writer of the 18th Century, Revolution? popularized the new scientific way of looking A. Antagonistic to nobles at court, the older noble families of the country had much greater wealth and at the world and boldly questioned the power intimate connection between the French B. Though some nobles had titles dating back several monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church? hundred years, about 25% of the aristocracy had been ennobled only recently. A. Diderot C. The nobility was a closed elite that jealously guarded B. Montesquieu its status and refused to share power with the bourgeoisie. C. Rousseau D. The noblesse d’épée and the noblesse de robe were D. Voltaire bitter rivals and disdained marriage alliances SD-CP-SS-5 SD-CP-SS-6 Edmund Burke, like other conservatives in late 18th Sylvia Neely writes that the religious devotion and early 19th centuries, blamed the excesses of the seemed to be waning in pre-revolutionary France, French Revolution on the Enlightenment’s leading but she describes the prevailing public mood with intellectuals. Burke criticized these philosophes for which of the following phrases? doing which of the following? A. more anti-Catholic than anti-Christian A. advocating the creation of a British-style B. more anti-clerical than anti-Catholic constitutional monarchy in France C. more anti-Christian and anti-religion B. glorifying unrealistic concepts of pastoral D. more anti-religion than anti-spiritualism simplicity and sensibilities C. having a misplaced confidence in human’s ability to improve the world D. relying on outdated political and religious traditions instead of reason and science SD-CP-SS-7 SD-CP-SS-8 After Louis XVI put Turgot in charge of public finances From 1776 until 1783, Jacques Necker served Louis in 1774, the noted economist and reformer created XVI as director-general of finances and attempted to controversies by advocating all of the following policies. do which of the following in order to solve the Though the king feared that Turgot was infringing on monarchy’s revenue crisis? royal authority, he finally dismissed him and dismantled his reformers after Turgot urged the king to do which A. ally with the United States in order to regain one of the following? France’s North American colonies A. allow the free trade of grain B. reform tax collections in order to increase B. break up the craft guilds of Paris banks willingness to lend money to the king C. refrain from intervening in the American C. replace France’s absolute monarchy with a Revolution limited constitutional monarchy D. replace forced peasant labor on roads with a D. use the Gallic Church’s assets, including land, tax on all landowners to finance the monarchy SD-CP-SS-9 SD-CP-SS-10 The cahiers de doléances that accompanied the Which of the following phrases would best describe election of the Estates General in 1789 expressed a the political situation of Louis XVI as the Estates wide range of opinions and concerns. However, General struggled to organize itself and the Third Sylvia Neely notes that most anticipated which one Estate moved to organize itself as the National of the following political reforms? Assembly? A. exclusive privileges of the nobility and clergy A. Hesitant to intervene, but hopeful of would be abolished negotiating a compromise B. only taxes endorsed by the Estates General B. supportive of the Third Estates insistence on would be legitimate voting by head C. the Third Estate would be recognized as a C. supportive of the First and Second Estates national assembly insistence on voting by order D. traditional rights and liberties would be D. willing to use force to maintain the power and guaranteed by a written constitution privileges of the Bourbon Dynasty SD-CP-SS-11 SD-CP-SS-12 The actual takeover of the Bastille by a Parisian mob Illustrating the collapse of the French monarchy in was not in and of itself a momentous historical event. 1792, this print shows Louis XVI being shoved and However, which of these episodes related to the insulted while being forced to wear the bonnet rouge, celebrated “Fall of the Bastille,” could be correctly the Phrygian cap of liberty. He was forced to endure described as the most important and truly revolutionary these insults during which of the following events? event of July, 1789? A. his execution in the Place A. the financing of political agitators and radicals by de la Revolution the Duc d’Orléans B. the Flight to Varennes B. the naming of the Marquis de Lafayette as commander of the National Guard of Paris C. the forced move from C. the refusal of the French Guard to stop riots and Versailles to Paris to restore order D. the storming of the D. the reorganization of the government of Paris by Tuileries Palace Jean Sylvain Bailly SD-CP-SS-13 SD-CP-SS-14 In early August of 1789, in a panic described as The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was “patriotic delirium,” the National Constituent similar to the American Declaration of Independence. One Assembly reacted to the “Great Fear” by passing of the following concepts is found only in the French document. One concept is found only in the American laws which abolished which of the seigneurial document. Which one concept is found in both documents? privileges enjoyed by the aristocracy of the Ancien A. asserted the universal right of all individuals to Régime? freedom of speech and opinion and the right to A. honorific privileges that included symbolic assemble peacefully distinctions related to noble status B. defended the right of the people to resist oppression and despotism B. jurisdictional rights that gave nobles control of local courts C. defined law as an expression of the “General Will” and asserted the right of all citizens to participate in its C. useful rights that provided nobles with formation income from peasants living on their fiefs D. listed a long series of offenses that the monarch had D. all of the above committed against the people SD-CP-SS-15 SD-CP-SS-16 In August and September of 1789, the United States By the summer of 1790, bitter disputes over ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson, tried but which of the following issues had created a failed to facilitate a compromise between conservatives schism that threatened to alienate large and radicals on the Constitutional Committee. What had the Monarchiens demanded that the radicals, such numbers of French citizens, divide the reforms, as Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, so adamantly opposed? and undermine the chances for the success of A. establishment of the Gallican Church as the state the Revolution? church A. economic inequality B. power for the king to veto acts of the national B. political rights legislature C. religion C. recognition of the king’s dominant role in foreign affairs D. slavery and serfdom D. a unicameral national legislature SD-CP-SS-17 SD-CP-SS-18 According to Sylvia Neely, why did the more In 1790, as political parties began to form in Paris, radical deputies of the Constituent Assembly which one supported women’s rights and expressed support The Civil Constitution of the Clergy as well a willingness to work with other parties? as efforts to force bishops and priests to take A. The Cercle Social that advocated oaths of loyalty to the revolutionary constitution representative democracy and included and government? Jacques-Pierre Brissot A. They had no great interest in religion B. The Cordeliers who advocated direct B. They held strongly anti-clerical political democracy and were led by Georges-Jacques beliefs Danton C. They underestimated the hold that religion C. The Hérbertists led by Jacques-René Hébert had on many French citizens who championed dechristianization D. all of the above D. The radical Jacobins who would eventually be led by Maximilien Robespierre SD-CP-SS-19 SD-CP-SS-20 In the summer of 1791, the royal family’s Flight to Supporters of the French Revolution tended Varennes transformed the political landscape. to associate political parties with which of the Which of the following statements accurately following? describes the rapidly shifting political trends after the king’s return to Paris? A.