Wednesday, December 11, 2013
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
MERCANTILISM AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM, THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION - FOCUS QUESTIONS
1. What were some of the results of the opening of the Atlantic to commerce with Europe
2. What kind of goods could be produced with the new technological advances
3. Why was Newcomen’s pump considered a radical invention.
4. Which countries held overseas colonies. Who led in exploration and expolitation?
5. What was the result of the commercial revolution that increased production brought about by `precious metals coming from the Americas?
6. What were the two new social classes developed by the Industrial Revolution
7. What were the parts of the theories of Marx?
8. What three countries established colonial empires during the 18th century?
9. What country led the Industrial Revolution? Why?
10. What were some of the advances in energy during the Industrial Revolution?
11. Define Marxism, liberalism, radicalism, conservatism, socialism
12. Who were the Utopian socialists? Thomas Malthus? David Ricardo?
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
TOPICS AND TERMS
Mercantilism and the Rise of Capitalism: The Industrial Revolution
- mercantilism, rise of capitalism
- the Commercial Revolution
- inflation
- cash crops
- rise of capitalism
- capital
- chartered companies
- joint-stock companies
- limited liability
- the bourse
- mercantilism
- theory of mercantilism
- bullionism
- balance of trade
- mother country
- essential industries
- overseas colonization
- aka Old Imperialism
- the Industrial Revolution
- agricultural revolution in England
- the enclosure movement
- Jethro Tull
- industrial proletariat
- technical advances
- energy
- water, coal, steam engines
- textiles
- fly shuttle, spinning jenny, water frame, steam engine, cotton gin
- coal
- steam pump, improved pump
- transportation
- steamship, railroads, canals
- Oil
- internal combustion engine
- Results of the Industrial Revolution
- increased production, availability of manufactured goods
- bad working conditions, sweat shops
- the Sadler Commission
- Luddities
- effects on class and gender
- industrialists/capitalists
- child labor laws
- Jeremy Bentham
- utilitarianism
- women and children’s rights
- feminism
- theories of economics
- Adam Smith
- Wealth of Nations
- laissez-faire
- Thomas Malthus
- David Ricardo
- Iron Law of Wages
- Utopian Socialists
- “dismal science”
- Robert Owen
- Comte de Saint-Simon
- technocrats
- Karl Marx
- Hegelian dialectic
- Dialectical materialism
- communism
- Class Struggle
- inevitable revolution
- surplus value theory
- dictatorship of the proletariat
- the Technical Revolution
- mass production
- consolidation
- big business
- population shift
- partial list of inventors
- John Kay
- James Hargreaves
- Richard Arkwright
- Eli Whitney
- Thomas Newcomen
- James Watt
- Robert Fulton
- George Stephenson
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
HONORS WORLD HISTORY: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
TOPICS AND TERMS
- First Industrial Revolution
- Richard Arkwright
- water frame
- spinning wheel
- factory system
- capitalism
- entrepreneurs
- capital
- Great Britain
- Thomas Newcomen
- steam engine
- James Watt
- George Stephenson
- Manchester to Liverpool
- Robert Stephenson
- locomotive
- Robert Fulton
- steamship
- Hudson River
- immigrant
- emigrant
- Second Industrial Revolution
- Bessemer process
- Brooklyn Bridge
- skyscrapers
- Ned Ludd
- Luddites
- Cyrus McCormick
- reaper
- Eli Whitney
- cotton (en)gin(e)
- enclosure movement
- Jethro Tull
- Samuel F.B. Morse
- telegraph
- Alexander Graham Bell
- telephone
- Marconi
- radio
- urbanization
- Charles Darwin
- Domestic System
- Lord Shaftsbury
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Frankenstein
- unions
Friday, December 6, 2013
HONORS WORLD HISTORY: THE SHAPING OF MODERN EUROPE
FOCUS QUESTIONS
1 What four nations were prepared to use military forces to crush revolts in other nations?
2. Name the social classes that tended to support liberalism.
3. What countries were involved in the Crimean War? What were the causes of the war?
4. Describe how Otto von Bismarck contributed to German unification
5. How did the Crimean War contribute to the Italian and German unification?
HONORS WORLD HISTORY: THE SHAPING OF MODERN EUROPE
TOPICS AND TERMS
- Confederation of the Rhine
- German Confederation
- Carlsbad Decrees
- Otto von Bismarck
- Chancellor
- Prime Minister
- “blood and iron”
- Iron Chancellor
- North German Confederation
- German Empire
- Emperor Bismarck
- Southern Italy
- Bourbon Dynasty
- Central Italy
- Papal States
- Northern Italy
- Austria
- Kingdom of Sardinia
- Carbonari
- Joseph Mazzini
- Young Italy
- King Victor Emmanuel I
- Count Cavour
- Napoleon III
- Venetia
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Great Britain
- Crimean War
- House of Commons
- House of Lords
- Benjamin Disraeli
- William Gladstone
- suffrage
- social security laws
- Queen Victoria
- veto
- France
- Franco-Prussian War
- Third French Republic
- bicameral
- Senat
- House of Deputies
- Premier
- Germany
- Emperor William II
- Austria-Hungarian Empire
- Emperor Franz Joseph
- Hapsburgs
- Croats
- Poles
- Serbs
- Czechs
- Slovaks
- Russian Empire
- Czar Nicholas I
- Dardenelles
- Czar Alexander II
- mir
- Poland
- Czar Alexander III
- Nicholas II
- Russify
- Poles
- Lithuanians
- Ukrainians
- Finns
- Jews
- Russian Orthodox Church
- Russo-Japanese War
- Duma
- Turkish Empire
- Greece
- Serbia
- Bulgaria
- Albania
- Rumania
- Young Turks
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Monday, December 2, 2013
AP European History: The French Revolution, Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
Focus Questions
1. Before the Revolution, did France’s wealth and size of population give any warning of the problems to come?
2. What caused the outbreak of the Revolution?
3. What is the difference between the storming of the Bastille and the Tennis Court Oath
4. Arrange these in chronological order: convening of the Estates General, Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
5. What were the three stages of the Revolution?
6. What document alienated the French Church and her believers?
7. Arrange these in chronological order: Consulate, National Assembly, Directory, National Convention.
8. When it was all over, how many died during the Reign of Terror?
9. Did the Revolution end the legal inequities between the classes? If so, how? If not, Why?
10. What were some of Napoleon’s positive accomplishments?
11. What was the purpose of the Continental System?
12. How did Napoleon make the Revolution an international movement?
13. How did the Congress of Vienna restore the balance of power in Europe.
14. Who were the important members of the Congress of Vienna. Which dominated the proceedings?
15. What did the map of Europe look like in 1789? 1800? 1815?
11. Define agnosticism, atheism, rationalism, deism
12. What role did Voltaire play in enlightenment thinking?
13. Which philosophes were influential in spreading Enlightenment thinking to the Americas?
AP European History: The French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Congress of Vienna
Topics and Terms
- The French Revolution
- the Old Regime
- the First Estate
- the Second Estate
- the Third Estate
- the First or Moderate Stage of the Revolution (1789-1792)
- meeting of the Estate General
- creation of the National Assembly
- Tennis Court Oath
- storming of the Bastille
- abolishment of feudalism and manorialism
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
- Constituent Assembly
- march on Versailles
- seizure of Church and monastery lands
- Civil Constitution of the Clergy
- Flight to Varennes
- Declaration of Pillnitz
- the Second or Radical Stage of the Revolution (1792-1795)
- the Legislative Assembly
- Wars of Revolution
- Brunswick Manifesto
- storming of the Tuileries
- the First French Republic
- the First Coalition
- Jacobins and Girondists
- National Convention
- Maximilien Robespierre
- Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
- The Enrages
- Committee of Public Safety
- Republic of Virtue
- Danton
- the Final or Reactionary Stage of the Revolution (1795-1798)
- The Thermidorian Reaction
- The Directory
- Napoleon
- the Consulate
- the Concordat
- Code Napoleon
- merit system
- victories in Italy
- victories in Germany
- Confederation of the Rhine
- the Continental System
- War with Spain
- war with Russia
- the Grand Armee
- collapse of Napoleonic Empire
- Battle of Leipzig
- aka Battle of Nations
- abdication of Napoleon
- Frankfurt proposals
- Bourbon dynasty
- Louis XVIII
- island of Elba
- the Congress of Vienna
- rule of legitimacy
- Clemens Von Metternich
- Viscount Castlereagh
- Czar Alexander
- Prince Hardenberg
- Foreign Ministeer Tallyrand
- settlement of the Napoleonic Wars
- the Hundred Days
- Concert of Europe
- aka Quadruple Alliance
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