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AP European HistoryReading Schedule

Chapters 19 and 22: The Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions

Day 1: Introduction to the Unit: Steve Jobs, “Tweaker”

Mon 12/1Why was there an Industrial Revolution? The impact

of the earlier Agricultural Revolution

HW: 630-36: “Agriculture and the Land”

Day 2:Sheep-puncturing in Merrie Olde England: Thomas Hardy’s Far

Tues 12/2from the Madding Crowd

Cottage industry and the turning point: Steam power

HW: 725-30: The Industrial Revolution in England

Day 3:Dickens and Industrialization: David Copperfield excerpt

Wed 12/3HW: 730-35 The Breakthrough: Steam Power

Day 4:Webquest: Industrial Revolution Web Quest

Thurs 12/4HW: 735-40: The Continent industrializes

Day 5:Catch-up Day

Fri 12/5

Day 6:Conditions for workers: “Labor

Mon 12/8Oldand New” primary source

packet

HW: 744-49: “Conditions of Work”

Day 8:Review Day

Tues 12/9

Day 9:Test, Ch 19/22

Wed 12/10

Thurs 12/11, Fri 12/12; Mon 12/15; Tues 12/16: Review for Finals.

Recorded review lectures will be available two of those days.

Saturday Reviews (Non-mandatory): 12/6; 12/13 8 a.m.-Noon

Finals: December 17, 18, 19

AP European HistoryCh 19/22 Reading

“Agriculture and the Land,” 630-36

Why would there be a connection between crop failure and epidemics?

What marked the 1690s in Europe?

What was the open-field system? What impact did it have on the soil?

What were the “common lands?”

How does McKay define the “agricultural revolution?”

Why was enclosure necessary for increased food production?

Why were the Dutch the agricultural pioneers of Europe?

Identify the following innovators:

Cornelius Vermuyden

Jethro Tull

Why do historians disagree over the fairness of the Enclosure Movement?

AP European HistoryReading Notes

“England’s Advantages,” pp. 725-29 of McKay

Why Did the Industrial Revolution Begin in England?

A. Identifying causes:

Water:

Agriculture:

Economic organization:

Political leadership:

What did Arkwright’s water frame do to change the workplace?

Thanks to the revolution in thread production, what was the impact on weavers?

How did factory work in part solve the problems of the “illegitimacy explosion” we studied back in Chapter 20?

AP European HistoryReading Notes

Steam, Railroads, and Demographic Change, pp. 730-35*

What new fuel source powered steam engines?

What job did the first, primitive steam engines perform?

James Watt didn’t invent the steam engine; what did he do to improve it?

How was steam power applied to the British iron industry?

What was the Rocket, and what was the world’s first railroad line?

List the multiple effects the railroad had on Europe:

What was the Great Exposition, and how was it a wonderful propaganda device for England? (Right: The Crystal Palace)

The following men are very important! Know their books and theories!

David Ricardo?

Thomas Malthus?

Based on the theories of the two men above, why was economics first referred to as “the dismal science?”

*Stop at “Industrialization in Continental Europe”

AP European HistoryReading notes

Industrialization in Continental Europe, pp. 735-40

In the table: How did England compare to France in terms of industrialization?

What little nation was the second to industrialize, after England?

How might the timing and pace of Germany’s industrialization have been a factor leading to World War I, when Germany and England were enemies?

How did events 1789-1815 retard industrialization in the Continent of Europe?

Who was William Cockerill? Why might English capitalists have looked on him with some disgust?

Who was Fritz Harkort?

How do high tariffs (“tariff protection”) serve to protect a particular nation’s industries?

How was infrastructure—roads, railroads, canals, vital to industrial success?

Who was Friedrich List and what was the zollverein?*

How might the zollverein have been a big step toward the eventual unification of Germany (1871)?

Identify Credit Mobilier and its role in European industrialization

*This is a major development. Keep this word in your vocabulary!

AP European HistoryReading notes Ch. 22

“Conditions of Work,” 744-top of 750

Why was time discipline perhaps the most difficult thing for factory workers to adjust to?

What were poorhouses?

By 1790, how was child labor beginning to change?

How was being a factory worker actually a “family affair?”

Who was Robert Owen?

What was the Factory Act of 1833?

What nation provided a steady stream of industrial workers for England?

How was the concept of “separate spheres” different from the earlier pattern of family labor?

Why were working-class women

gradually driven out of factory

work?

What was the Mines Act of 1842?

What were the Combination Acts?

(1799 and 1824)

What was the key demand of the Chartists—

(a Chartist poster, right) and how would that

have improved factory conditions?

Reviewing the Chapter: “The Industrial Revolution”

Part One. Terms: Identify the following:

  1. open-field system
  1. crop rotation
  1. Holland and land reclamation
  1. cottage production vs. factory production?
  1. Crystal Palace
  1. zollverein
  1. Credit Mobilier
  1. Luddites
  1. Factory Act of 1833
  1. Clothiers (why were they resented by the other cottage industry workers?)
  1. The Sadler Commission (What did they find out about factory conditions?)
  1. Combination Acts
  1. Chartists
  1. “Peterloo”
  1. Proletariat

16. Mr. Gregory and the Wham-Bang Machine

Part Two. Identify the importance of....

  1. Jethro Tull
  1. Charles “Turnip” Townshend

3. Robert Bakewell

  1. James Watt
  1. Eli Whitney
  1. George Stephenson (aaagggh! G-forces!!!)
  1. Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo (not Ricky Ricardo!)
  1. William Cockerill & family
  1. Fritz Harkort
  1. Friedrich Engels
  1. Charles Dickens and the I.R.
  1. Thomas Hardy (Far from the Madding Crowd)

Part Three: The big ideas:

  1. How was enclosure a tragedy for many in the short term but a great triumph for Europeans in the long run?
  1. Describe the multiple effects selective livestock breeding had for European farming.
  1. Why did the I.R. begin in England? Include the Agricultural Revolution as a factor.
  1. What multiple impacts did the railroad have on England?
  1. Why were the nations of Continental Europe (especially France) slower to industrialize than England, and how did they catch up?
  1. Summarize the impact(s) of the factory system (large-scale industry) on women and on the family. How were women’s roles radically different as the 1800s progressed?

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