Review Questions: The Age of Revolution, Industrialism, and Nationalism - Prof. John Orens, Quizzes of Cultural History of Europe

Download Review Questions: The Age of Revolution, Industrialism, and Nationalism - Prof. John Orens and more Quizzes Cultural History of Europe in PDF only on Docsity! Western Civilization Professor Orens REVIEW QUESTIONS ABOUT THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, INDUSTRIALISM, AND NATIONALISM 1. Why did Louis XVI call the Estates General into session in 1789? 2. Who attacked the Bastille on 14 July 1789 and why? 3. What form of government did the National Constituent Assembly establish? 4. According to the Declaration of the Rights of Man, what are the most important huma n rights and what is the source of political sovereignty? 5. What did the Civil Constitution of the Clergy do? 6. How did the National Convention change the French government? 7. Why did the Jacobins unleash the Reign of Terror? 8. In what ways did Edmund Burke criticize the philosophes’ theories about natural right s and the social contract? 9. Which ideals of the French Revolution did Napoleon Bonaparte betray? To which was he faithful? 10. In what ways was Europe ready to sustain an industrial economy by the end of the e ighteenth century? 11. How did the Industrial Revolution transform European society? 12. What were conditions like for workers in the new industrial factories and cities? 13. What were the political principles of nineteenth-century liberalism? 14. According to John Stuart Mill, when may the state interfere with individual freedom? Apart from state tyranny, what danger to individual freedom did Mill most fear? 15. Why did the ideals of nationalism threaten the political order of nineteenth-century E urope? 16. What were the duties Giuseppe Mazzini believed that people owed to their country? What were duties that he believed they owed to humanity? 17. What methods did Otto von Bismarck use to unite Germany? 18. How did William Wordsworth's' view of nature and that of other romantics differ from that of the Enlightenment? 19. According to the romantics, how were the deepest truths about life to be found? 20. What did Karl Marx believe was the central theme of all history? 21. According to Marx, how had the bourgeoisie changed European society?