Second Semester World Studies Final Study Guide
Use this as a guide for your studying. Review your own notes for vocabulary, the google slides on the class website, and textbook readings. The majority of the questions will be based on our recent civics units (front page). A smaller portion of the final will be questions from our India and China units (see back side of study guide).
Civics
Power – sources of; legitimacy
Types of Government (democracy, communism, totalitarianism etc.)
Enlightenment Philosophers and Ideas
· Thomas Hobbes
· John Locke
· Baron de Montesquieu
· Voltaire
· Rousseau
Causes/Sparks of the American Revolution
· key ideas behind events such as French-Indian War, Stamp Act, Tea Act
Declaration of Independence - structure
Articles of Confederation – major issues
The Constitution
· Continental Congress
· Anti-Federalists vs Federalists
· Format, Purpose, Details
· Great Compromise
· 3/5 Compromise
· Key principles
· Clauses of the Constitution
o Supremacy Clause
o Commerce Clause
· Powers of the Constitution
o Expressed
o Reserved
o Concurrent
· The Bill of Rights
o History and Purpose
o 1st-10th amendments
o 13th, 14th, 15th amendments
o 19th, 24th amendments
· Checks and Balances:
o Purpose and Examples
o Judicial review
Citizenship
o Definition/ Benefits /Responsibilities
o Dred Scott v. Sanford
o 13th-15th amendment
o Immigration and Gaining Citizenship
· Voting
o Direct and Indirect Disenfranchisement
§ History (Who could vote and when?) - suffrage
§ 19th Amendment
o Civil Rights Movement
§ Poll Taxes
§ Literacy Tests
§ Civil Rights Act 1964
§ Voting Rights Act 1965
§ 24th Amendment
§ Gerrymandering
· Political Parties
o Goals and Purpose
o Third Parties
· Interest Groups
o Definition/Purpose/Role
o Examples
o PACs
· Fake news – how to identify
· Foreign Policy
o Goals
o Hard Power/Soft Power Options
o Role of UN
· The Syrian Civil War
o Background Causes – Arab Spring
o Parties Involved and leaders
§ Syrian Government
§ Rebels
§ Sunni/Shi’a
§ Kurds
§ Russia
§ US
§ ISIS (Sunni)
o Effects of the War – Refugee Crisis
· ISIS
o Rise of ISIS
o 9/11-War in Afghanistan-War in Iraq
o al Qaeda
o Goals of ISIS
o Leaders Involved
o Difference between Islamic Extremism and majority of Muslim believers
India
Early Civilizations
· Harappa - Level of technology, Location
· Monsoon
· Aryans –Agriculture, Technology
Chandragupta Maurya- Success/tactics, Religious life
Ashoka the Great
· Buddhist influence
· Edicts
· Pillars (and what he wrote on the pillars)
The Mughals
· Origins
· Religion
· Golden Age
· Cultural Blending/religious tolerance
· Taxation
· Decline (Aurangzeb, religious hostility/taxation)
The British
· Technology
· Battle of Plassey
· Goals
o Cash crops/raw materials/famines/taxes
o Salt Tax, cloth, economic restrictions
· Sepoys Rebellion
Gandhi
· Method and Ideas
South Asian Independence
· India/Pakistan
o Partition
o Kashmir and continuing tensions
China
Physical Geography (Yellow River, Yangtze)
Early Dynasties and ideas
§ Xia Dynasty
§ Shang - Oracle Bones, Ancestor Worship
§ Chinese characters/writing
§ Chou (Zhou)- Mandate of Heaven
§ Confucianism/Legalism/Daoism
§ Qin (Chin)
· Government
· Projects
· Shi Huangdi
Engineering - Great Canal, Terra Cotta Warriors, Wall
Government types/organization
Social Classes
· Han Dynasty
o Sui Dynasty
o Tang and Song
o The Mongols
§ Tactics/strategy
§ Barbaric? Civilized? Evidence for each?
§ Pastoral Nomads
§ Yuan Dynasty (Kublai Khan)
§ Pax Mongolica
o Ming Dynasty
§ Navy - Destruction, reasons for
§ Zheng He
o Qing Dynasty
o Foot binding
o 19th & 20th Century
§ Spheres of Influence
§ Opium Wars
§ Taiping Rebellion
§ Boxer Rebellion
§ Civil War
· Nationalists (Kuomintang)
· Communists
o Communist Revolution
§ Nationalists
· Sun Yat Sen
· Chiang Kai-shek
§ Communists
§ Mao Zedong
· Maoism:
§ The Long March
§ Great Leap Forward
§ Cultural Revolution
Korean Peninsula
o Korean War
o North Korea – supporters, government and economic system
o South Korea – supporters, government and economic system