Her father Charles VI tried to ensure that she would succeed him, in violation of the Salic law, by issuing the Pragmatic Sanction.
This ruler passed a law decreeing that each Jewish family could only have one son, and forced Jews to pay a fee known as the malke-geld to keep their lands. This ruler ceded the Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla to the Spanish Bourbons. This ruler employed Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz to institute economic reforms, and sent Gerard van Swieten to investigate reports of vampires in Moravia. She ceded some land in the Treaty of Breslau, which was signed in the aftermath of a loss at the Battle of Mollwitz. Her father Charles VI tried to ensure that she would succeed him, in violation of the Salic law, by issuing the Pragmatic Sanction. For 10 points, name this woman whose accession to the Habsburg throne sparked the War of the Austrian Succession.
This ruler passed a law decreeing that each Jewish family could only have one son, and forced Jews to pay a fee known as the malke-geld to keep their lands.
Maria Theresa