World History

Students must complete the following to receive full credit:

• Define Terms with examples for each term.

• Write a Summary of each video (minimum 4-6 sentences per video). (ALL NOTES MUST BE HAND WRITTEN!!!) Label clearly for Mr. Smith to see work.

• Answer Important Questions after watching the videos and taking notes.

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Total pages (with exam):

5+ pages of work per credit

Important Questions:

1. What steps did Cleisthenes take to strengthen democracy in Athens?

2. What are the four basic principles of Roman Law?

3. How do the steps taken by leaders of Athens reflect a turn toward democracy?

4. Was Athenian democracy under Pericles truly a democracy? Explain.

5. Which characteristic of the government under the Roman Republic had the greatest impact on the democratic tradition

6. which of the Christian teachings supports the central idea of democracy?

7. how did the Reformation indirectly contribute to the growth of democracy?

8. How did the Reformation promote the idea of individualism?

9. How did the printing press help promote ideas of democracy?

10. What were the three eventual consequences of William the Conqueror's victory at Hastings?

11. Why did Parliament invite William and Mary to rule England in 1689?

12. What impact did the English common law have on the United States?

13. Why was Oliver Cromwell's rule like that of an absolute monarch?

14. What were the main achievements of the Glorious Revolution?

15. What were natural rights?

16. What was Rousseau's idea of government?

17. What political rights are set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

18. How did the writers of the U.S. Constitution adapt the political theories of the Enlightenment?

19. In what ways was the French Revolution similar to and different from the American Revolution?

Assessment/Final Exam:

Essay Exam: Which was greater, the Greek city-states or the Roman empire? Please discuss longevity, economic power, cultural achievements and influence in your essay. Make sure to use facts to support your thesis in your essay.

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Important Questions:

1. Was colonial America a democratic society?

2. Were the colonists justified in resisting British policies after the French and Indian War (1754–1763)?

3. Were the origins of the American Revolution primarily economic or ideological?

4. Were the colonists’ responses to the Stamp Act (1765) justified?

5. How did the Stamp Act Congress pave the road for American independence?

6. Is violence a sound strategy to bring about significant political and social change? (Case studies to help examine this question could include: the Stamp Act riots [1765], the Boston Massacre [1770], the Boston Tea Party [1773], and the battles of Lexington and Concord [1775].)

7. Should the British Parliament’s response to colonial violence be viewed as "coercive" or "intolerable"?

8. Was the American colonists’ movement for independence "common sense"?

9. Would you have been a revolutionary in 1776?

10. What was the Glorious Revolution?

11. Who was Oliver Cromwell?

12. Division into the Three Estates was based on...

13. What was the Reign of Terror?

14. What was the point of the Reign of Terror?

15. The American and French Revolutions were turning points in global history because the results of these revolutions...

16. Which Enlightenment idea inspired the American Revolution?

17. Which act during the American Revolution is similar to the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution?

18. What was the slogan of the American Revolution

19. What was the slogan of the French Revolution?

20. Which Enlightenment idea would leaders of the American and French government agree with?

21. The Haitian Revolution is important because...

22. What happened to Toussaint L'Ouverture?

23. Who is considered the George Washington of South America?

24. Who was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror?

25. What famous battle brought an end to the Napoleonic Era in France?

Assessment/Final Exam:

Essay Exam: In a well thought out essay (four-five paragraphs) compare and contrast two of the following revolutions:

• French

• American

• Haitian

• Latin

Be sure to explain the similarities and differences when addressing the reasons that these revolutions occurred.

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Important Questions:

1. Fencing off lands for agriculture during the agricultural revolution is know as

2. In the U.S. most factory workers were from

3. These two resources made the Ruhr Valley in Germany important to the I.R.

4. Why were the railroads such an integral part of Germanys industrial progress

5. He invented the seed drill

6. What is the purpose of selective breeding?

7. Agricultural Revolution led to this?

8. Early factories had to be located near one of these?

9. Edward Cartwright invented what?

10. This machine led to the expansion of cotton production in the United States

11. The process that drove the industrial revolution

12. Industries primarily concerned with the design or manufacture of clothing as well as the distribution and use of textiles. This term grew out of the industrial revolution in the 18th Century as mass production of clothing became a mainstream industry.

13. The town that dominated textile manufacturing along with Manchester was ___________

14. The social group consisting of people who are employed for wages, especially manual or industrial work

15. Attacked conservatism and traditionalism on the right, while condemning most forms of revolutionary radicalism on the left

16. Placed well-being and progress of society as its primary objective - borrowed from enlightenment thinkers like Rousseau

17. Ideology that holds that all people ultimately derive their identities from their nation (defined by shared language, traditions, sometimes religion)

18. A political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes

19. Believed that society could use industrialization to create new, ideal or utopian societies. Bought a cotton mill in New Lanark, Scotland and set up a model factory town where workers only labored ten hours and children attended school up to the age of 10.

20. English economist who argued that the laws of supply and demand should operate in a free market (1772-1823), Principles of Political Economy (1817).

Assessment/Final Exam:

Essay:

Your assignment is to write a multi-paragraph essay about the Industrial Revolution. Be sure to include how it impacted all parts of society.

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Important Questions:

1. rural areas that sent members to Parliament despite having few or no voters due to migration

2. political party representing middle class and business interests

3. political party representing nobles, land owners, those with agricultural income

4. redistributed seats in the house of commons, giving representation to new cities and eliminating rotten boroughs. enlarged the vote to more middle-class men.

5. longest reign in British history, 1837-1901, during a time of great English power

6. Leader of Whigs Party in Britain; evolved into the modern Liberal Party

7. a Liberal Government passed measures that restricted the power of the House of Lords, 1911

8. tax on imported goods

9. trade between countries without quotas, tariffs, or other restrictions. English business leaders support this.

10. campaign against slavery and slave trade. Britain was the first European country to ban slavery, 1807, and in all British colonies 1833

11. crimes punishable by death included not only murder, but shoplifting, sheep stealing, impersonating an army veteran

12. settlements for convicts in Australia and New Zealand

13. Socialist organization that promoted gradual change through legal means rather than violence, small in number but strong in influence

14. in 1918 got women's the right to vote for women over 30

15. owned large estates but did not live on them, Irish resented paying rent to rich English

16. Used to describe Irish nationalism and calls for Irish independence. Irish resented British rule, lived in poverty, paid high rent to absentee landlords, Irish Catholics had to pay tithes to Church of England. laws forbade using Irish language, potato famine made it worse

17. Passed to protect well-being of the poor and disadvantaged

18. French entreprenuer, Ferdinand de Lesseps organized its building in Egypt to link Mediterranean with the Red Sea and Indian Ocean

19. movement to create a Jewish state in Palestine. Reaction to anti-Semitism, Dreyfus Affair, and Russian pogrom

20. US buys Louisiana territory from France for about $15 million, doubled its size and control of the Mississippi River and the New Orleans ports

Assessment/Final Exam:

Essay:

Your assignment is to write a multi-paragraph essay about Western Expansion. Explain why people move and expand into different areas. Be sure to include how it impacted all parts of society. Describe the pros and cons of this expansion for North America.

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Important Questions:

1. Commodore who led a fleet of well-armed U.S. ships. Pres. Fillmore demanded that Japan open its ports, 1853

2. Long reign and turning point in Japan's history. Mutsuhito studied Western ideas to modernize Japan

3. He renamed city of Edo during Meiji Restoration, "eastern capital"

4. Powerful banking and industrial families created during the Meiji Restoration

5. Common culture and language, Japan modernized with amazing speed partly due to its strong sense of identity

6. Competition between Japan and China in Korea led to this war. Japan easily won. Gained Taiwan

7. Dutch East Indies was called...

8. Japan defeated Russia, gained Korea and Manchurian territories

9. King of Siam, who didn't underestimate Western power. He prevented Siam becoming a European colony.

10. War over Cuba's attempts to win independence from Spain. Inspired the Filipinos to declare independence from Spain. They achieved this but then fell under American rule.

11. In return for US's help against Spain, they expected independence. Instead in the treaty that ended the war, US gave Spain $20 million in exchange for the Philippines, so they renew their fight for independence, but US crushed rebellion

12. Last Queen of Hawaii who was overthrown by American planters in 1893

13. To ease ethnic tensions, British passed this that created two provinces--Upper Canada and Lower Canada

14. People of mixed Native American and French descent. Many were French-speaking Catholics who believed that the gov't was trying to take their land and destroy their language & religion

15. Rugged Australian interior ...also, the name of an American steakhouse...

16. Liberal reformer of Zapotec Indian heritage, opened an era of reform known as La Reforma. Offered hope to oppressed people of Mexico, revised Mexican constitution to strip the military of power and end the special privileges of the Church, ordered Church to sell unused lands to peasants

17. Treaty that ended the war between Mexico and US, Mexico lost almost half its territory, embarrassing defeat triggered new violence between conservatives and liberals.

18. American policy of discouraging European intervention in the Western Hemisphere

19. US forced Cubans to add this amendment to their constitution, gave US naval bases in Cuba and the right to intervene in Cuban affairs

20. Policy where the US "policed" the Western Hemisphere to protect our economic interests

21. Opened 1914, cut the distance of a sea journey, engineering marvel that boosted trade and shipping worldwide. To people in Latin America, this was an example of "Yankee Imperialism"

22. Quickly won independence from Columbia with US support and gave the US control of the land to build the canal

23. Home to Aborigines...Britain made it into a Penal colony...British citizens encouraged to move there...Gold Rush brought in many new people...New settlers killed the Aborigines...Over taken by British

24. Missionaries tried to convert local Maoris to christianity in this island north of Australia

25. Had French, British and Native Peoples...British tried to Unite them, but that didn't work and they easily got independence

Assessment/Final Exam:

Essay:

Your assignment is to write a multi-paragraph essay about Imperialism. Be sure to include how it impacted all parts of society.

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