May 28: A3 Exam
May 30: A1 and A2 Exams
The final will consist of three parts. The first section will be ID's, the second section will be document analysis, and the third section will be an essay. The three sections together will cover all of the second semester content.
The first part of the exam will involve you completing ID's on some of the terms below and analysis of one document. To prepare for the document analysis, use the SOAPSTONE method (click here for a review of the SOAPSTONE method). Also, you should be able to put the document in its historical context (time, place, culture, and its significance).
DOCUMENT 1
Source: Early 1900s Sun Yat Sen — Chinese revolutionary and the first president of the Republic of China Quoted from his pamphlet ‘The Three People’s Principles’
“For the most part the ... Chinese can be spoken of as completely Han Chinese. With common customs and habits, we are completely of one race. But in the world today, what position do we occupy? Compared to the other peoples of the world we have the greatest population and our civilization is four thousand years old; we should therefore be advancing in rank with the nations of Europe and America. But the Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit. Therefore even though we have four hundred million people, gathered together in China, in reality they are just a heap of loose sand. Other men are carving knife and serving dish, we are fish and meat...if we don’t earnestly espouse nationalism...there is danger of China being lost and our people destroyed.”
ID Terms (Document 1)
1. Boxer Rebellion
2. Sun Yat-Sen
3. Qing Dynasty
4. Kuomintang (Nationalist Party)
5. May Fourth Movement
6. Mao Zedong
7. Chinese Communist Party
8. Long March
9. Chinese Civil War
DOCUMENT 2
Source: George T. Warner, Landmarks in English Industrial History, Blackie & Son Limited
… England, however, has grown in both respects. She is both a great colonial power and a great industrial power. And she has been fortunate in possessing the natural conditions necessary to success.
For industry and commerce, no less that the command of the seas, are limited by natural conditions. Modern manufacturers cluster round coal-fields, where power can be had cheaply; the possession of good harbours is essential to maritime trade; a country where broad and gently-flowing rivers act as natural canals will have advantages in internal communications over a country broken up by mountain ranges …. When we recognize that England is rich in these advantages, that she has coal and iron lying close together, that her sheep give the best wool, that her harbours are plentiful, that she is not ill-off for rivers, and that no part of the country is farther than some seventy miles from the sea, we have not said all ….
ID Terms (Document 2)
Industrial Revolution
Enclosure
Industrialization
Factors of production
Productivity
Entrepreneur
Urbanization
Middle class
Corn Laws
David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus
DOCUMENT 3
Source: 1914 —Chain of Friendship (US)
ID Terms (Document 3)
World War I
Militarism
Imperialism
Nationalism
Triple Entente
Triple Alliance
Balkans
Fourteen Points
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
DOCUMENT 4
Source: Made in Bangladesh, Not in Bangladeshi Blood - Anushay Hossain, Contributor. Forbes.com
I feel so sad and angry that people who are generally not employers of large numbers of people, or involved in mass production, have been making such harmful, and often vicious comments about an industry which has built Bangladesh, and has given so much independence to our women. This sector has grown into a $20 billion industry in about three decades, with 90% of its workforce being women. This is something to be very proud of.
ID Terms (Document 4)
1. Invisible Hand
2. Adam Smith
3. Friedrich Von Hayek
4. Karl Marx
5. John Maynard Keynes
6. Globalization
7. Economic growth
8. Developing country
9. Developed country
10. Free trade
The links below may help you understand Document 4
A few opinions on the social value of factories like the one in Bangladesh
In Praise of Cheap Labor (Paul Krugman)
The Case for Sweatshops (David R. Henderson)
You will write an essay responding to one of the four prompts below on the day of the exam. I will assign two of these on exam day and you will choose one of them. Click here to see the rubric that will be used in assessing this essay.
#1: Compare and contrast the impact of 19th century industrialization in two of the following regions:
Western Europe
Latin America
East Asia
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
#2: Analyze the causes and consequences of political revolution using one of the examples below as a case study.
Russian Revolution
Chinese Revolution
French Revolution
American Revolution
Iranian Revolution
#3: Using historical examples dating from 1750, to what extent can the manner in which one war is resolved lead to future conflicts?
#4: Analyze changes and continuities in the second half of the 20th century in one of the following areas:
Gender and the status of women
Trade and economics
Population and demographics
Democratization and governance
Science and technology
Essay outlines and intro paragraphs prepared by your peers
Click here for a graphic organizer from Ms. Mohl and Mr. Bissett
Analysis of the four documents prepared by your peers
Quizlets created by Karan: These are a good starting place for the terms, but you will need to give more complete descriptions of the terms in many cases. You'll need to be able to identify the time, place, and culture that the term applies to and its historical significance in relation to the document.