Author Question: Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau A) created new ranks of intendants to govern various regions ... (Read 32 times)

notis · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Buying on the margin referred to

A) buying homes on the outskirts of town.
B) buying consumer goods with a small down payment.
C) buying stock market securities with as little as a down payment of 20 percent.
D) buying trendy consumer goods
E) None of these are correct.

Question 2

After the conclusion of the Thirty Years' War in 1648, the Holy Roman Empire

A) became one of the most powerful and centralized monarchies in Europe under the domination of Spanish grandees.
B) was not really an empire at all but rather a loose association of 300 German states.
C) became divided into three great warring states: Prussia, Poland, and Silesia.
D) was dominated by Brandenburg-Prussia, which suppressed the autonomy of all other imperial territories.
E) was ruled by the Bourbons.

Question 3

During the 1920s, the expansion of credit

A) led to less consumption as people were careful about accumulating debt with high interest rates.
B) allowed the working classes to invest in the stock market.
C) was advanced in the form of personal loans, but never for the purchase of consumer goods.
D) reaffirmed the notion that personal debt went hand in hand with immorality.
E) None of these are correct.

Question 4

Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau

A) created new ranks of intendants to govern various regions of France.
B) revoked the earlier Edict of Nantes, curtailed the rights of French Protestants, and caused thousands of highly skilled Huguenot to flee the country.
C) established new standards of court etiquette and was intended to diminish the power of great nobles.
D) removed most French bishops from their sees and replaced them with nobles to strengthen Louis' control of the French Catholic Church.
E) moved the Estates General from Paris to Fontainebleau.