Exam 22: Patterns of Nation-States and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1750-1871

In an address to the National Assembly on October 10, 1789, Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin argued that:

At the time of the French Revolution, ________ produced nearly half of the world's sugar and coffee.

Patriotic feelings were roused in France in April 1792, when:

__________ wrote the novel Vanity Fair, a book on bourgeois human foibles and peccadilloes.

Had it not been for __________, the French government, on the verge of Revolution in 1789, would have been well-financed.

In contrast to Rousseau's traditional Christian ethics, _________ sought to build morality on transcendent reason and thus came to the conclusion that his morality had to be erected on the basis of the categorical imperative.

In the peace negotiations concluding the American War of Independence, France incurred _________, an obligation which it ultimately was unable to meet, thus setting in motion one of the underlying causes for the outbreak of the French Revolution.

During the period 1793-1797, Saint-Domingue was:

The French section of Hispaniola produced nearly _________ the world's coffee and sugar at the time of the French Revolution.

As a result of the Seven Years' War, Spain lost Florida to ___________ in 1763.

Both the American and French Revolutions were outgrowths of the _________ and the later Enlightenment.

The Stamp Act of 1765 paid for:

In its final draft, the Declaration of Independence tacitly excluded the ________ of all Americans who were black slaves.

The leaders of Prussia attempted to gain dominance within the unwieldy and weak confederation of 39 German states created at the Congress of Vienna with a(n) ____________ in 1834.

In retaliation for the defiant actions in Boston Harbor, Britain imposed the so-called _________, also known as the "Intolerable Acts" in colonial North America, which put Massachusetts into effective bankruptcy.

The US Constitution seemed to embody many of the ideals of the Enlightenment, except for:

Otto von Bismarck argued that, in order to unite Germany, Prussia must progress from talk to action, by employing "blood and _________".

Although affirming the concept that the equality of all "men" was "self-evident," the Declaration of Independence tacitly excluded the _________ of all Americans who were Black slaves and the roughly half who were women, as well as Native Americans.

Denis Diderot's most important contribution to the Enlightenment was to assemble all the latest scientific and philosophical thinking into the _________.

Louverture became emperor of Haiti, renaming Saint-Domingue after: