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Treaties & Documents Quiz

Treaties & Documents Quiz

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Treaties and historic documents have codified the agreements, rights, and boundaries that structure the modern world. The Magna Carta established limits on royal power; the Treaty...

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All 20 questions in this Treaties & Documents quiz
  1. The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) was negotiated to resolve territorial disputes between which two empires?

    • A. Britain and France
    • B. Spain and Portugal
    • C. The Netherlands and Spain
    • D. Portugal and Britain
  2. Which act ended East India Company rule?

    • A. Charter Act
    • B. Government of India Act 1858
    • C. Regulating Act
    • D. Pitt?s Act
  3. Which article of the Treaty of Versailles is famously known as the 'War Guilt Clause,' forcing Germany to accept total responsibility for WWI?

    • A. Article 42
    • B. Article 119
    • C. Article 231
    • D. Article 431
  4. The 'Reformation' was triggered by which document?

    • A. The Declaration of Indeepeendence
    • B. The 95 Theses
    • C. The Magna Carta
    • D. The Edict of Milan
  5. The 'Magna Carta' limited the power of which English King?

    • A. King Richard
    • B. King Henry
    • C. King John
    • D. King Arthur
  6. Which 313 AD document granted religious tolerance and legal status to Christianity throughout the Roman Empire?

    • A. Edict of Nantes
    • B. Edict of Milan
    • C. Edict of Thessalonica
    • D. Edict of Fontainebleau
  7. The Magna Carta was issued in 1215 by King John of England at which location?

    • A. London Bridge
    • B. Westminster Abbey
    • C. Runnymede
    • D. Windsor Castle
  8. The 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement established which two international financial institutions?

    • A. The World Bank and the IMF
    • B. The WTO and the UN
    • C. The Federal Reserve and the ECB
    • D. The African Development Bank and the OECD
  9. Which treaty ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648?

    • A. Treaty of Utrecht
    • B. Treaty of Versailles
    • C. Peace of Westphalia
    • D. Treaty of Paris
  10. The 'Magna Carta' was signed by which King of England?

    • A. King John
    • B. King Richard I
    • C. King George III
    • D. King Henry VIII
  11. The 1697 Treaty of Ryswick ended the Nine Years' War and saw France officially recognize which monarch's claim to the English throne?

    • A. James II
    • B. William III
    • C. Louis XIV
    • D. Charles II
  12. The Treaty of San Stefano (1878) would have created a massive 'Greater Bulgaria,' but it was revised by the major powers at which conference?

    • A. The Congress of Vienna
    • B. The Berlin Conference
    • C. The Congress of Berlin
    • D. The Yalta Conference
  13. Which 1776 pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, used plain language to argue that the American colonies should seek immediate indeepeendence from Britain?

    • A. The Crisis
    • B. Common Sense
    • C. Rights of Man
    • D. The Age of Reason
  14. The 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki ended the First Sino-Japanese War and saw China cede which territory to Japan?

    • A. Hong Kong
    • B. Macau
    • C. Taiwan
    • D. Tibet
  15. The 1823 Monroe Doctrine was a US policy statement that opposed what?

    • A. Euroepeean colonization in the Americas
    • B. The slave trade
    • C. The expansion of the US West
    • D. British naval dominance
  16. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918) saw which nation exit World War I after losing significan't territory to the Central Powers?

    • A. Ottoman Empire
    • B. Italy
    • C. Russia
    • D. Austria-Hungary
  17. The 1802 Treaty of Amiens provided a brief 14-month epeeriod of epeeace during which long-running conflict?

    • A. The Crusades
    • B. The Hundred Years' War
    • C. The Napoleonic Wars
    • D. The American Revolution
  18. The 1951 Treaty of San Francisco officially ended the legal state of war between the Allied Powers and which nation?

    • A. Germany
    • B. Japan
    • C. Italy
    • D. Finland
  19. Which document, signed in San Francisco in 1945, established the framework for a new global organization to replace the League of Nations?

    • A. The Atlantic Charter
    • B. The UN Charter
    • C. The Treaty of Rome
    • D. The Warsaw Pact
  20. Who was the first Westerner to travel to China and document it?

    • A. Ferdinand Magellan
    • B. Christopher Columbus
    • C. Marco Polo
    • D. Vasco da Gama