Ap Euro Term 2

Question 1

***1689-1789

Answer 1

The Era of Enlightenment or Age of Reason

Question 2

***1776

Answer 2

Adam Smith publishes Wealth of Nation

Question 3

1712-1778

Answer 3

Jean-Jacques Rousseau must be recognized as the link between the Enlightenment and the Romantic Era.

Question 4

***1689

Answer 4

English Bill of Rights

Question 5

***1701-1713

Answer 5

Wars of Spanish Succession pits France (and Spain) against the Grand Alliance who wish to fight French hegemony

Question 6

***1713

Answer 6

Treaty of Utrecht ends the War of Spanish Succession benefits the English, Prussians, and other members of the Grand Alliance opposing the “Sun King.”

Question 7

Early 18th Century in England

Answer 7

Walpole becomes leader of government as de facto Prime Minister as England develops Party Politics

Question 8

***1698-1725

Answer 8

Peter the Great Begins Westernization of Russia.

Question 9

1700-1721

Answer 9

Great Northern War between Swedes and Russia ends with Russian expansion and emergence as the Great Baltic power

Question 10

1713

Answer 10

The Pragmatic Sanction is signed

Question 11

***1740

Answer 11

Frederick the Great of Prussia and Maria Theresa of Austria come to their respective Hohenzollern and Habsburg thrones and begin German dualisms duel

Question 12

1740-1748

Answer 12

War of Austrian Succession between Frederick’s Prussia and Maria Theresa’s Austria begins.

Question 13

***18th century

Answer 13

Rococo Art and Mozart

Question 14

1756

Answer 14

Diplomatic Revolution

Question 15

***1756-63

Answer 15

The Seven Years War (known as the French and Indian War in North America)

Question 16

***1780-1790

Answer 16

Reign of Josef II of Austria

Question 17

***1789-1815

Answer 17

French Revolution and Napoleonic Era

Question 18

***May 5, 1789

Answer 18

The Estates General are summoned by Louis XVI to respond to the economic crisis.

Question 19

***June 20-27

Answer 19

The Tennis Court Oath.

Question 20

***July 14, 1789

Answer 20

Storming of the Bastille

Question 21

***August 4, 1789

Answer 21

Abolition of feudal privileges by National Constituent Assembly

Question 22

August 26,1789

Answer 22

Publication of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Question 23

***1790

Answer 23

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Question 24

***1790

Answer 24

“Father of Modern Conservatism”, the Brit Edmund Burke

Question 25

***1791-92

Answer 25

Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft publish treatises calling for women’s equality

Question 26

1791

Answer 26

Royal family tries to escape in the “Flight to Varennes”

Question 27

1791 October 21

Answer 27

Legislative Assembly convenes

Question 28

1792

Answer 28

France declares war on Austria and Prussia

Question 29

1792 September 21

Answer 29

Abolition of monarchy; France becomes a republic.

Question 30

***1793-94

Answer 30

Radical Phase of the French Revolution

Question 31

1795

Answer 31

Thermidorian Reaction quells the Reign of Terror as Robespierre is executed and the Directory takes control.

Question 32

***1789-1791

Answer 32

Moderate stage of revolution dominated by those members of Third Estate originally summoned to the Estates General

Question 33

***1793-94

Answer 33

Radical Revolution eventually led by the Jacobin Party leader Robespierre

Question 34

1795-99

Answer 34

Conservative Directory fails to solve financial crisis or famine in France

Question 35

***1799

Answer 35

Napoleon’s coup d’etat overthrows corrupt Directory

Question 36

1804

Answer 36

Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of 1st French Empire

Question 37

***1804

Answer 37

England dominates the High Seas for a Century

Question 38

***1812

Answer 38

Napoleon makes the fateful decision to invade Russia

Question 39

1814

Answer 39

Battle of Nations

Question 40

***1789-1848

Answer 40

Romantic Era

Question 41

***1815

Answer 41

The forces of conservatism and reaction dominate the Congress of Vienna

Question 42

***1815-1914

Answer 42

the “Long Peace” in Europe between the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of WWI

Question 43

***1776-1830

Answer 43

Era of Democratic Revolutions Sweep Across the New World and Western “Liberal” Europe

Question 44

***1815-1848

Answer 44

The Age of Metternich

Question 45

***1819

Answer 45

Peterloo Massacre in Britain and the repressive Carslbad Decrees in the German

Question 46

1820’s

Answer 46

Both the conflict over the Monroe Doctrine and the Greek Revolution

Question 47

1830

Answer 47

Revolutions in Europe

Question 48

***19th Century

Answer 48

Post-Napoleonic Europe—Industrial Revolution

Question 49

***1815-1846

Answer 49

Corn Laws In Effect

Question 50

***1832

Answer 50

Great Reform Bill in Britain

Question 51

1830’s, 1840’s, 1850’s, 1860’s

Answer 51

Dickens was a voice of conscience for England during the Industrial Revolution in England

Question 52

***1838-1848

Answer 52

Chartists in England call for universal suffrage

Question 53

***1798--1848

Answer 53

Parson Malthus’s “Essay on Population” and David Ricardo’s “Iron Law of Wages” rule the day as the “Manchester School” of economics dominates the “dismal science.

Question 54

***1846

Answer 54

Repeal of Corn Laws in England

Question 55

***1848

Answer 55

Chartists disband quietly considering it was the year of Revolutions

Question 56

1867

Answer 56

The Reform Bill of 1867

Question 57

1884

Answer 57

Reform Bill

Question 58

1850’s and beyond

Answer 58

Scramble for Africa

Question 59

***1848

Answer 59

Revolution sweeps across Europe and Failure of liberal nationalism

Question 60

***1848

Answer 60

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish their Communist Manifesto calling for “scientific socialism” and “dialectical materialism”

Question 61

***1890’s

Answer 61

Fabian Socialist and Evolutionary Socialists Parties grow