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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Hints for Midterm

-You will have 55 MC (all prompt based) and 3 SA.
Study for this!!!!  Knowing the content below and being able to be strategic on prompt based multiple choice is how you will be successful on this.
This needs to be completed in 90 minutes
Time frame to focus on: 1450-1848
Chapters from Spielvogel: 12-21

Make sure to review the most recent chapter.
A lot of material on the midterm pertain to concepts from Chapter 21
15 Items to review specifically from Chapter 21:
1. Significance of the Congress of Vienna (Balance of Power, Legitimacy
2. Significance of Conservatism (Burke and Metternich)
3. Quadruple Alliance (Balance of Power)
4. Principle of Intervention
5. The Greek Revolt
6. France: Restoration and Revolutions of 1830 and 1848
7. The Burschenshaften (Carlsbad Decrees)
8. Russia (Tsars/Issue of Serfdom)
9. Economic Liberalism (Thomas Malthus) and Political Liberalism (Mill)
10. Significance of Nationalism
11. Early Socialism (Fourier, Tristan, Blanc, and Owen)
12. Reform Acts (1832, Poor Law, Repeal of Corn Laws)
13. **Revolutions of 1848/Why they failed
14. Risorgimento in Italy (Mazzini)
15. Romanticism

In General
Know important events that occur in every century below
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th: (Up to 1850)
---Role of women throughout
---Population/Migration to cities/Families/Kids/Marriage (Social History)
---Wars and Revolutions
---Leisure in each century
---The Enlightenment/Enlightened Despots
---"Greats" in Europe (Peter, Frederick, Catherine)
---Significance of the Italian Renaissance
---Significance of The Reformation/CounterReformation/Society of Jesus/How different in England
---Artwork in each century
---Age of Discovery/Issue of Slavery/Revolts
---Significant advances in the Scientific Revolution
---Significance of French Revolution/The Terror/Radical Elements
---Significance of Agricultural/Industrial Revolution (Great Britain vs. Continent (Russia)
---Maps (Important events/Wars/Treaties

SHORT ANSWERS: (3)
Know the difference/significance between the Concert of Europe and Peace of Westphalia
Significance of Religion from 1450-1848
How commerce and prosperity are linked in European history
Know the difference between continuity and change as it relates to historical thinking skills.
Significance of steam as it relates to all industries especially transportation.








Monday, December 11, 2017

Hints for Quiz tomorrow

Tomorrows quiz is a group quiz on the Industrial Revolution
We will first finish Josh's discussion.  Second: You will have 25 minutes to work on the quiz.  Everyone must turn in their own scantron.

There are 20 challenging questions.
Some questions are straight content based from reading the chapter.  Make sure you read and review.

Content to Focus on
---Technological Changes
---Why Great Britain
---Difference between Great Britain and the Continent
---Great Exhibition of 1851
---Efforts at Change: Reform Movements
---New Social Classes
---Working Conditions
---Chartism and the Luddites
---Irish Potato Famine
---Role of Women

Sources to focus on:

SPIELVOGEL
Maps: Page 601, 606
Sources: Page 603, 610, 616, 617
Paintings/Drawings: Page 604, 612, 619, 620

SHERMAN
Testimony for the Factory Act (84-85)
Woman in Her Social and Domestic Character (89)
Women and the Working Class (90)
Gare Saint Lazare (90)
Iron and Coal (91)
Maps (92-93)
Making of Economic Society: England: First to Industrialize (93-94)
Industrial Revolution in Russia (94-95)
The Family and Industrialization in Western Europe (96-97)




"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."

"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."
Napoleon

The French Revolution

The French Revolution

Otto von Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck