World History Mid-Year Exam Study Guide

You should be able to identify all the following people, places and terms. Identify means that you understand the historical significance, characteristics, and relationship of that person, place or term. Make sure your understanding is complete and detailed. The more you know the better off you will be for the mid-year exam.

Rise of Nation States

Divine Right

English Bill of Rights

Enlightenment

Social contract

Adam Smith & laissez-faire

Impact of American Revolution on world

National Assembly reforms

Napoleon’s invasion of Russia

Congress of Vienna

Nationalism

Division of 19th century colonial society in Latin America

Nationalism (definition)

Impact of French Revolution and Napoleon on nationalism

Nationalism as both unifying and divisive

Liberal

Nationalist movements in Austria-Hungarian empire

Cavour, Bismarck“Realpolitik”

Obstacles to Italian & German unifications

Industrial Revolution

Meaning of word “Revolution”

Agricultural Revolution

Why began in England?

Working conditions in factories

Effects on family life and women

Reasons for growth of U.S. as industrial power

Principles of capitalist economies

Law of supply and demand

What Marx got wrong

Link between industrial revolution and rights for women

Late 19th century progress: (advances and inventions)

Imperialism

Link between nationalism, industrialization, and imperialism

Forces driving imperialism

Direct v. indirect control

Tai Ping & Boxer Rebellions compared

Commodore Perry’s expedition & Treaty of Kanagawa

Meji Restoration

U.S. annexation of Hawaii

Monroe Doctrine

Spanish-American War results

Roosevelt Corollary

Possible Open Response Topics

You will be asked to respond to writing prompts based on the topics below and will be graded based on the common four-point open response rubric . Sources will be provided for each question. You will need to be prepared to provide relevant historical examples and evidence in addition to the evidence from the sources to complete your responses.

Absolutism to Revolution

1. Democratic ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers

2. Abuses of the Old Regime

3. Napoleon’s failures as a cause of the rise of nationalism

Nationalism

4. The process of unification in Italy and Germany

5. Nationalism as a unifying and a divisive force within a country

6. How Enlightenment ideas influenced Latin American revolutions

Industrial Revolution

7. Impact of industrial development on Western Europe or the United States

8. How and why the Industrial Revolution began in England in the 1700s

9. Differences between capitalism and communism

Imperialism

10. Motives of Western nations for their imperialist actions in Africa, Asia and Latin America

11. Forms of imperial control

12. Effects of imperialism on the imperialist nations and their colonies