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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)




Thursday, November 30, 2017

Hints for Quiz Tomorrow (Chapter 19)

Quiz is on Chapter 19 tomorrow

There will be 20 Multiple Choice questions and 2 SA


Make sure you focus on the following:

Content: Spielvogel
Background and Causes of the French Revolution
Course of the French Revolution: Pages 571-585
Different governments during the Revolution and their accomplishments
Different political groups (Jacobins, Girondins, The Mountain, Sans-Culottes)
Key Events (Bastille, Women's March, Tennis Court Oathe, The Terror, etc)
Key Areas of Rebellion: (Map on Page 578)
Republic of Virtue
The Directory
Age of Napoleon: (Accomplishments/Stages of warfare)

Sources (Spielvogel)
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen: Spielvogel (574-575)/Sherman: Pages 59-60
Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizen: Spielvogel (574-575)/Sherman: 60-61
De-Christianization (Page 583)
Napoleon and Psychological Warfare (Page 588)
Map 19.3
Painting on page 589 and 592)

Sources (Sherman)
PRIMARY
1. What is the Third Estate? (Sieyes)
2. The Terror Justified (Robespierre)
3. Memoirs: Napoleons Diary (Remusat)
3. Napoleon's Diary (Napoleon)
VISUAL
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (David)
SECONDARY
Coming of the French Revolution (Lefebvre) VS. Revolution of Notables (Sutherland)
Loaves and Liberty (Graham)
Evaluation of the French Revolution (Doyle)
Secondary Sources (French Rev and Napoleon)
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution (Lyons)
Women and the Napoleonic Code (Smith)


Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Hints for Test on Chapters 17 and 18

TEST IS ON THURSDAY

You will have 90 minutes to complete

1. 30 prompt based multiple choice
2. 4 SA's

***=Pay special attention to

Concepts to focus on
Chapter 17: The Enlightenment
--How Locke and Newton influenced
--Deism
***Significant Philosophes: Kant, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Hume, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Beccaria, Smith, Condorcet, and Holbach
***The Woman's Question in the Enlightenment
--Influence of the Salon
--Art, Music, Literature (Rococo, NeoClassicism)
-High vs. Popular Culture
-Significance of Carnival
-John Wesley and Methodism

Chapter 18: 
-Enlightened Absolutism (Arguments for and against)
-Enlightened Monarchs (Catherine, Frederick, Joseph II)
***Wars and Diplomacy: Pages 543-547 (War of Austrian Succession, 7 years War, Nature of Warfare, Peace of Aix-la-Chappelle, Treaty of Paris)
***Social History (Population, Family, Marriage, Birthrate Patterns)
-Agricultural Revolution (550-551)
-Significance of Cottage Industry vs. New Methods
***Social Order of the 18th Century (Peasants and Nobility)
-Significance of the Grand Tour
-The Problem of Poverty

Sources to be familiar with
SHERMAN
***What is Enlightenment?: (40) Kant
System of Nature: (41) Holbach
Encyclopedia (41-42) Diderot
***The Philosophe (42-43)
English Model (43-44) Voltaire
Vindication of the Rights of Women (44-45): Wollstonecraft
Age of Reason: Deism (44-45): Paine
Social Contract (45-46) Rousseau
Visual Source: (30-31): Happy Accidents of the Swing
***Visual Source: Page 46-47: Frontispiece of the Encyclopedia
Visual Source: (48): Experiment with an Air Pump
Visual Source: (48): Propaganda and the Enlightened Monarch
Secondary Source (51): Women in Salons
***Secondary Source (51-52): The Problem of Enlightened Absolutism

SPIELVOGEL
***Map on Page 506
Separation of Powers: Page 507
***The Ignorant Philosopher: Page 509
Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville: Page 510
A Social Contract: Page 512
***Opposing Viewpoints: Page 514
Women and the Enlightenment Salon: Page 515
The Broken Man: Page 522
The Journal of the Reverend John Wesley: Page 528
The French Kings Bedtime: Page 534
***Map on Page 536
Frederick the Great and his Father: Page 538
***Opposing Viewpoints: Page 540
British Victory in India: Page 546
Marital Arrangements: Page 548
***Painting: Children of the Upper Classes: Page 549
Impact of Agricultural change: Page 552
Beginnings of Mechanized Industry: Page 554
Aristocratic Way of Life: Page 557
Poverty in France: Page 560


Thursday, November 2, 2017

Hints: Quiz on Chapter 15 (Monday)

Quiz on Chapter 15 will be on Monday

It will include 15 Multiple Choice
and 1 long essay (you will have the option to choose from 2)

***Make sure you review the Long Answer Rubric linked to the blog****
as well as the Long Answer that you took 1st quarter that I gave feedback on


To be successful on this quiz: Review the following concepts

Witchcraft Craze
Causes of 30 Years War
Significance of Treaty of Westphalia
Political Centralization of Europe in the 16th and 17th Centuries
The Practice of Absolutism (Cardinals and Louis XIV)
Wars of Louis XIV
Decline of Spain and Rise of Brandenburg/Austria
Reign of Peter the Great
Significance of the Ottoman Empire
Why Was Poland Weak?
Golden Age of the Dutch Republic
***Pages 462-467 (England and the Emergence of Constitutional Monarchy)
Flourishing of European Culture (Mannerism, Baroque, Dutch Realism, Shakespeare)
Locke vs. Hobbes


Sources to be familiar with:
---Spielvogel
Map 15.1 (Page 440) and Map 15.2 (Page 450) and Map 15.6 (Page 458)
Source on Page 454
Painting on Page 455 (Peter the Great as Victor)
Oliver Cromwell: 3 Perspectives (Page 464)
English Bill of Rights (Page 467)
---Sherman
Visual Sources: Leviathan, Maternal Care
Secondary Sources: Absolutism: Myth and Reality, English Revolution, Early Modern Family




Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Hints: Test on Friday (Chapters 13 and 14)

For the Test on Friday:

There will be 36 stimulus based Multiple Choice (see content and sources to familiarize with)
1 Short Answer (You will choose to answer 1/2)
Thursday: I will review with you

Content to Focus on and Review

Spielvogel: Chapter 13
1. Prelude to Reformation (Erasmus, More)
2. Luther and the Reformation
3. Spread of the Protestant Reformation (Zwingli, Calvin, Anabaptists)
4. Reformation In England (Henry VIII)
5. Social Impact (Family, Education)
6. CounterReformation/Catholic Reformation (Society of Jesus, Council of Trent)
7. French Wars of Religion
8. Philip II and Militant Catholicism
9. Elizabeth I

Spielvogel: Chapter 14
1.  Motives
2. Mercantalism
3. Role of Portugal and Spain
4. Triangular Trade and Columbian Exchange
5. Impact of European Expansion/Toward a World Economy: Pages 427-433

Sources to Familiarize yourself with

95 Theses: Page 373 (Spielvogel)
Justification by Faith: Sherman: 177
Praise of Folly: Page 370 (Spielvogel)
Conflict at Marburg: Page 382 (Spielvogel)
Role of Discipline: Page 386 (Spielvogel)
PreDestination: Page 179 (Sherman)
Protestant Woman: Page 388 (Spielvogel)
Women in the Reformation: Page 187-188 (Sherman)
Loyola and Obedience: Page 391 (Spielvogel)
Ordinances of Calvinist Geneva: Online
Constitution of the Society of Jesus: Sherman 180
Loyola and Catholic Reform: Sherman Visual Source: Page 183
"I Have the Heart of a King: Page 398 (Spielvogel)
Travels of Marco Polo:Page 405 (Spielvogel)
Maps on Pages 408, 417, and 430 (Spielvogel)
Map on Page 197 and 198 (Sherman)
Columbus: Page 411 (Spielvogel)
Letter to Lord Sanchez: Page 191 (Sherman)
Political Interpretation of the Reformation: Pages 184-185 (Sherman)


Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Hints: Chapter 12 Quiz on Thursday

On tomorrows quiz

There will be 25 MC and 1 LEQ
---You will have 90 minutes to complete---

To do well you should:

1. Review and print out LEQ Rubric: (You can bring with you and use on the quiz)
http://www.tomrichey.net/uploads/3/2/1/0/32100773/ap_euro_leq_rubric_2017.pdf

(The Long Answer will focus specifically on the Italian Renaissance)

2. Be familiar with the following sources 
-Marriage Negotiations (Page 339)
-Oration on the Dignity of Man (Page 348)
-All artwork in Spielvogel (351-357) and Sherman (167-170)
-Book of the Courtier (Sherman: (Pages 165-166)
-Machiavelli's The Prince (Sherman: 164-165, 172-173) (Spielvogel 345)
-Burkhardt and Burkes Work (Sherman 171-172)

3. Review the following content from Spielvogel:
-Social Changes in the Renaissance (336-340)
-Intellectual Renaissance (344-350)
-Artistic Renaissance (350-357)
-Role of Machiavelli
-Unification of Spain (359-360)
-The Church in the Renaissance (361-364)

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Hints for Quiz on Friday

HINTS

You will have 15 Stimulus Based Multiple Choice questions along with 2 Short Answers

In order to be successful you should do the following:

---Review the following:

1.  Read over Strategies for Multiple Choice Questions (Pages xlviii-lii): Beginning of Spielvogel
2.  Read over Strategies for Short Answer Questions (Pages lii-liii): Beginning of Spielvogel

3. Review the following Content:

Spielvogel
Causes and Impact of the Black Death
Causes and Impact of the Peasant Revolts (Know the different revolts)
Causes and Impact of the 100 years War
Causes and Impact of the Great Schism (Decline of the Church)
Cultural World of the 14th Century (Art and Literature)
Society (Changes in Urban Life, Medicine, and new Inventions)


4. Be Familiar with the following Sources

Spielvogel
Pages 302 (Causes)
Page 303 (Map)
Page 304 (Strasbourg Jews)
Page 307 (Revolt of French Peasants)
Page 310 (The Hundred Years War)
Page 315 (Joan of Arc)
Page 319 (Boniface: Papal Supremacy)
Page 323 (Dante's Vision of Hell)
Page 325 (Giotto's Lamentation)
Page 326 (Liberated Woman)

Sherman
Page 144 (Attack on the Papacy)
Page 147 (The Decameron)
Page 148 (Statute of Laborers)
Page 150 (Goodman of Paris)
Page 151 (Church Besieged)
Page 152 (The Haywain)
Page 153 (Triumph of Death)
Page 155 (Great Mortality)
Page 156 (Black Death: Socioeconomic)

"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