AP World History Reading Calendar

March 2016

*Readings are to be completed on the day they are assigned.

28 / 29 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
P. 798 – 805
1. conservatism
2. liberalism
3. abolitionist movements (Olaudah Equiano)
4. Seneca Falls Convention / P. 805 – 811
1. characteristics of nation
2. nationalism (cultural & political)
3. Anti-Semitism / Zionism
4. Congress of Vienna
5. nationalist rebellions / P. 815 – 824
1. industrialization
/ effects
2. mechanization (textile industry)
3. factory system / effects/ conditions
4. Luddites
5. American industrialization
6. corporation / P. 825 - 833
1. effects of industrialization on population
2. demographic transition
3. urbanization / transcontinental migration
4. social changes of industrialization (classes, families, gender, child labor) / P. 833 - 841
1. utopian socialists
2. Marx and Engels
3. Communist Manifesto / “dictatorship of the proletariat”
4. trade unions
5. industrialization in Russia
6. industrialization in Japan/ zaibatsu
6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12
P. 853 – 860
1. Canadian independence / British North America Act
2. Simon Bolivar / Gran Colombia
3. caudillos
4. Mexican revolution / Juarez/ La Reforma
5. Zapata and Villa / P. 860 – 874
1. industrial migrants (European & Asian)
2. effects of railroads / railroad time
3. National Policy / effects
4. industrialization in Latin America / British involvement / Study for test Ch. 29 - 31 / TEST CH. 29 - 31 / P. 879 – 883
1. Ottoman military decline
2. Ottoman territorial decline (including Egypt)
3. Ottoman economic problems
4. capitulations
13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18 / 19
P. 883 – 887
1. Selim III
2. Mahmud II / reforms
3. Tanzimat era / reforms
4. opposition to Tanzimat / Young Ottomans
5. Abdul Hamid
6. Young Turks / P. 887 – 890
1. Crimean War / effects
2. Russian emancipation of serfs
3. zemstvos
4. Witte System
5. peasant discontent / P. 891 – 892
1. police repression
2. Land & Freedom Party / People’s Will
3. Nicholas II’s policies
4. Revolution of 1905 / Bloody Sunday
5. soviets
6. Duma / P. 892 – 900
1. Opium War
2. Treaty of Nanjing
3. Taiping Rebellion / effects
4. Self-Strengthening Movement
5. Empress Cixi
6. Hundred Days’ Reform
7. Boxer Rebellion / effects / P. 900 – 905
1. Tokugawa economic reforms
2. Commodore Matthew Perry
3. end of Tokugawa
4. Meiji Restoration
5. Meiji Reforms (list 5)
20 / 21 / 22 / 23 / 24 / 25 / 26
P. 909 – 915
1. imperialism
2. colonialism
3. reasons for imperialism (economic, political, cultural)
4. technologies for control (list transportation, military & communication) / P. 915 – 919
1. British East India Co. / Company rule
2. sepoys / Sepoy Revolt
3. British rule in India
4. colonization in Asia (list which countries controlled which regions) / P. 919 – 925
1. Stanley and Livingstone
2. King Leopold II / Congo Free State / effects
3. Boers vs. Afrikaners
4. Great Trek / voortrekkers
5. Boer War / effects
6. Berlin Conference
7. direct vs. indirect rule (concessionary companies) / P. 927 – 932
1. Monroe Doctrine
2. Hawaii / Queen Liliokalani
3. Spanish –Cuban – American War / effects
4. Panama Canal / Roosevelt Corollary
5. Sino-Japanese War / effects
6. effects of imperialism (economic, social, cultural) / P. 932 – 939
1. indentured labor
2. multicultural conflicts
3. scientific racism
4. Charles Darwin / Origin of Species
5. Spencer’s argument (social Darwinism)
6. anti-colonial movements (Ram Mohan Roy, Indian National Congress)
27 / 28 / 29 / 30 / 31 / 1 / 2
NO SCHOOL ~ Spring Break
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/ NO SCHOOL ~ Spring Break
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/ NO SCHOOL ~ Spring Break