Foundation • Question 1 of 35
John Locke argued that legitimate government rests on a compact with the governed.
Which political principle is most closely associated with this argument?
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Foundation • Question 2 of 35
A pamphlet claims that people possess rights before governments are created.
Which Enlightenment concept does the pamphlet express?
Foundation • Question 3 of 35
Montesquieu praised a political system in which authority was divided among institutions.
Which idea is illustrated?
Foundation • Question 4 of 35
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen proclaimed legal equality for male citizens.
Which revolution produced this document?
Foundation • Question 5 of 35
Enslaved people in Saint-Domingue overthrew slavery and French colonial rule.
Which revolution is described?
Foundation • Question 6 of 35
Simón Bolívar wrote about Spanish American independence while warning about the challenges of governing newly liberated territories.
Which source is most closely associated with this context?
Foundation • Question 7 of 35
A movement argues that people sharing language and culture should form their own state.
Which nineteenth-century ideology is most directly represented?
Foundation • Question 8 of 35
The American Declaration of Independence drew on arguments about rights and government legitimacy.
Which intellectual movement most directly shaped those arguments?
Foundation • Question 9 of 35
Revolutionaries in France abolished many legal privileges of the nobility.
Which broader development does this best illustrate?
Foundation • Question 10 of 35
Italian nationalists sought to combine several states into one kingdom.
Which process is this an example of?
Application • Question 11 of 35
A historian notes that Enlightenment writers criticized absolutism but differed over democracy, religion, and gender.
What is the best interpretation?
Application • Question 12 of 35
Olympe de Gouges rewrote a revolutionary declaration to demand political rights for women.
What does her intervention reveal?
Application • Question 13 of 35
A source from Saint-Domingue invokes French revolutionary equality while condemning racial discrimination.
Which reasoning move best explains the source?
Application • Question 14 of 35
The French Revolution entered a radical phase during war and internal political conflict.
Which development best demonstrates that radicalization?
Application • Question 15 of 35
A comparison of the American and Haitian Revolutions asks students to identify a major difference.
Which comparison is strongest?
Application • Question 16 of 35
Creole elites led many Spanish American independence movements.
Which tension helps explain their leadership?
Application • Question 17 of 35
Napoleon’s invasion of Iberia weakened royal authority in Spain and Portugal.
How did this affect Latin American independence?
Application • Question 18 of 35
A revolutionary document promises equality before the law but restricts political participation by property or gender.
What should a student conclude?
Application • Question 19 of 35
German-speaking nationalists in the nineteenth century promoted political unity.
Which development eventually resulted?
Application • Question 20 of 35
The Congress of Vienna attempted to restore stability after the Napoleonic Wars.
Which tension persisted despite conservative restoration?
Application • Question 21 of 35
A painting celebrates a revolutionary crowd as “the people” while excluding enslaved colonial subjects from view.
Which sourcing question is most useful?
Application • Question 22 of 35
A historian argues that print culture helped revolutionary ideas circulate.
Which evidence would best support the claim?
Application • Question 23 of 35
The Haitian Revolution frightened slaveholders elsewhere in the Atlantic world.
Which effect best follows from that fear?
Application • Question 24 of 35
A prompt asks why Atlantic revolutions occurred in the late eighteenth century.
Which answer uses causation most effectively?
Application • Question 25 of 35
A student says nationalism always produced liberal democracy.
Which evidence most directly challenges the claim?
Advanced reasoning • Question 26 of 35
A DBQ includes Locke, the French rights declaration, a Haitian revolutionary proclamation, and Bolívar.
Which grouping would support a sophisticated argument?
Advanced reasoning • Question 27 of 35
A prompt asks whether the French Revolution fulfilled Enlightenment ideals.
Which thesis is most defensible?
Advanced reasoning • Question 28 of 35
A historian compares Haiti with Latin American independence movements.
Which analytical distinction is most useful?
Advanced reasoning • Question 29 of 35
A nationalist speech claims that a shared language proves a people should possess one state.
Which assumption should a historian question?
Advanced reasoning • Question 30 of 35
A source praises the American Revolution as a model for later movements.
What additional evidence would best test the source’s claim?
Advanced reasoning • Question 31 of 35
A student argues that “revolution” always means immediate social equality.
Which Unit 5 evidence best refutes this?
Advanced reasoning • Question 32 of 35
The Haitian Revolution began in a colony central to French sugar production.
Why does that economic context matter?
Advanced reasoning • Question 33 of 35
A comparison asks about French and Latin American revolutions.
Which statement best captures a similarity and a difference?
Advanced reasoning • Question 34 of 35
A prompt asks for continuity and change in political legitimacy from 1750 to 1900.
Which argument is strongest?
Advanced reasoning • Question 35 of 35
Which statement best captures the global significance of Enlightenment and revolutionary movements?
Choose the most defensible answer.
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After the practice test
Turn revolutionary chronology into an argument about ideas, power, and limits
If you missed Enlightenment questions, stop memorizing philosophers as isolated names. Tie each thinker to a political problem: Locke to natural rights and consent, Montesquieu to divided authority, and revolutionary declarations to the question of who counted as a rights-bearing citizen.
For Atlantic Revolution questions, build a four-column comparison for the American, French, Haitian, and Latin American cases: leadership, immediate grievance, social order challenged, and post-revolution outcome. That prevents the common mistake of treating political independence as the same thing as social equality.
When a source uses words such as liberty, nation, citizen, or equality, ask who the author includes in that political community and who remains excluded. That sourcing move is especially useful for women, enslaved people, free people of color, Indigenous communities, and propertyless men.
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When you can explain the misses in this set without looking back at the answer choices, move into the Industrial Revolution in Britain practice test. The goal is to carry the reasoning skill into a different Unit 5 problem.
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