Age of Democratic Revolutions, Part 2
Unit Assessment: Age of Democratic Revolutions, Part 2
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- In a short paragraph, explain why most colonists had a positive attitude toward Britain in 1763. Give at least two reasons.
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- Describe three ways in which Russia differed from Western European countries in the 1600s and explain the reasons for those differences.
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- Describe three areas of Russian life that Peter the Great reformed or modernized, and one area that he did not change significantly.
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- How were the North American and Latin American revolutions similar? How did the revolutions differ? Provide three examples of similarities and three examples of differences.
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- Choose three of the main events of the French Revolution listed below. Explain whether each event moved France closer to a representative government or further away from it and why.
- Representatives of the Third Estate declare themselves the National Assembly.
- A mob storms the Bastille.
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen is written.
- The National Assembly is replaced with the National Convention, which writes a constitution allowing all males to vote.
- Thousands of nobles are executed during the Reign of Terror.
- A third constitution gives power to a Directory and limits voting to property-owning males.
- Napoleon takes power from the unpopular Directory in a coup d’état.
- Napoleon names himself Emperor of the French.
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