Semester 1

EOC Learning Concepts to Remember

Renaissance: who, what, where, when, how, why

  • Migration to cities
  • Trade (causes and effects)
  • Humanism ideas
  • Rise of the middle class
  • Patronage
  • Printing Press – spread of ideas
  • Contributors to the Renaissance (see list of people)
  • Explain the scientific method
  • Major locations – start and spread

Reformation: who, what, where, when, how, why

  • Causes of the Reformation
  • Catholic Church
  • English/German Protestant Reformation

Exploration: who, what, where, when, how, why

  • Motives for exploration
  • Spain’s role in exploration
  • Portugal’s role in exploration
  • Treaty of Tordesillas
  • Columbian Exchange

Philosophy: who, what, where, when, how, why

  • People and ideas (see people on vocabulary page)
  • Questioning the role/purpose of government

Government: who, what, where, when, how, why

  • Mercantilism in early colonies
  • Types of government
  • People and ideas (see people on vocabulary page)

English Civil War: who, what, where, when, how, why

  • Role of the people
  • Role of government

Glorious Revolution: who, what, where, when, how, why

  • William and Mary
  • Constitutional Monarchy

American Revolution: who, what, where, when, how, why

  • Causes and effects
  • Constitution, representatives and democracy
  • Mercantilism

French Revolution: who, what, where, when, how, why

  • Storming of the Bastille
  • Robespierre’s role in the revolution
  • Reign of Terror
  • Napoleon Bonaparte

Latin American Revolution: who, what, where, when, how, why

  • Purpose

Sequence of years of Wars & Revolutions

7 Grade Semester One EOC Vocabulary

Vocabulary / People
Unit 1
Patrons
Monarchs
Renaissance
Middle class
Humanism
Printing press
Scientific method
Heliocentric theory
Reformation
Catholic Church
Indulgences
Pope
Spanish Armada
Protestants
Conquistadors
Columbian Exchange
Treaty of Tordesillas
Unit 2
Age ofEnlightenment
constitutional monarchy
divine right monarchy
democracy
constitution
revolution
Parliament
English Civil War
Glorious Revolution
American Revolution
Mercantilism
French Revolution
Storming of theBastille
Reign of Terror
Latin American Revolution / Unit 1
Medici Family
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Johannes Gutenberg
William Shakespeare
Nicolas Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Martin Luther
King Henry VIII
Queen Elizabeth I
Christopher Columbus
Unit 2
Voltaire
John Locke
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes
Oliver Cromwell
William and Mary
George Washington
Maximilien de Robespierre
Napoleon Bonaparte
Simon Bolivar

Revised Fall 2011