Wednesday, December 11, 2013

AP EUROPEAN HISTORY

READING: CHAPTER 20, PAGES 562 TO 588 AND CHAPTER 22, PAGES 620 TO 650

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

Reading: Section 3, pp 271 - 279

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 -