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1. How many colonies did the British found in North America between 1607 and 1733?

2. Who is regarded as the Father of the French Revolution?

3. Where did the Industrial Revolution start and then spread to other parts of the western world?

4. Who led the army of the colonies against England?

5. Who played an important part in drafting the Declaration of Independence?

6. Who put for the theory of separation of powers?

7. On which goods produced in the American colonies did England impose taxes?

8. Who were included in the Third Estate in France?

Admirals and brigadiers
Dukes, marquises and counts
Merchants, lawyers, doctors, teachers, farmers, workers and serfs, etc.
Abbots, bishops, priors, novices, postulants etc.
Correct Answer: Merchants, lawyers, doctors, teachers, farmers, workers and serfs, etc.

9. State the principles that the French Revolution gave the world.

10. Why did the American colonies declare : 'No Representation, No Taxes'?

11. What is Montesquieu's theory of separation of powers?

Civil and military powers should be separate.
The three components of the government machinery - the Legislative, the Executive and the Judiciary - should be independent of one another.
Religious and secular powers should be separate.
Powers of investigation and prosecution should be separate.
Correct Answer: The three components of the government machinery - the Legislative, the Executive and the Judiciary - should be independent of one another.

12. Which fundamental rights are included in the Declaration of Human Rights?

Right to education, travel, speech and expression
Right to write books and paint pictures
Right to draw cartoons
Liberty, security of life and property and the right to resist injustice.
Correct Answer: Liberty, security of life and property and the right to resist injustice.

13. Why did the American colonies boycott the British goods?

England refused to remove all restrictions imposed on colonists and allow them to govern the colonies on their own.
They were of inferior quality.
They were costly.
They were brittle.
Correct Answer: England refused to remove all restrictions imposed on colonists and allow them to govern the colonies on their own.

14. Why did the enraged people of France storm the prison of Bastille?

The prisoners were on hunger strike.
A prisoner died in suspicious circumstances.
Their hardships went on increasing, their discontent to reached the climax, and the revolution broke out.
The prisoners were carrying out criminal activities with the complicity of jailors.
Correct Answer: Their hardships went on increasing, their discontent to reached the climax, and the revolution broke out.

15. When was the Declaration of American Independence?

16. When was the storming of the prison of Bastille?

Originally posted 2015-11-18 18:26:40.

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