Sunny Mahesh

Hendricks

HWH-Period 4

5/16/11

World History Semester 2 Final Study Guide

CH 22

Section 1

  1. What was the Scientific Revolution and how or why did it begin?
  2. Name each of the important contributions of the people listed below:

Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Jansen, Van Leeuwenhoek, Torricelli, Fahrenheit, Celsius, Vesalius, Jenner, Boyle.

  1. What is the difference between the geocentric theory and the heliocentric theory/
  2. What is the scientific method, how is it used, and how is it different from previous methods used earlier? List the steps of the scientific method in order.

Section 2

  1. What was the Enlightenment?
  2. Name the type of government each person, listed below, favored and what book they wrote, and how they affected our own government or society, if they did.

Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Beccaria, Wollstonecraft

  1. What are Locke’s three natural rights a man is born with? How is it different from the declaration of Independence?
  2. Who are philosophes and what are the 5 main concepts they believe in?
  3. What are the three branches of government? What is the point of checks and balances?
  4. Compare and Contrast Locke’s ideas and Rousseau’s ideas.
  5. How were women treated in the Beginning of the Enlightenment and how were treated as the Enlightenment progressed?
  6. What are the three long term effect of the enlightenment and describe them?

Section 3

  1. How did the Enlightenment spread and what were the ideals seen in?
  2. What are saloons?
  3. What is Diderot’s Encyclopedia?
  4. What is the difference between baroque and neoclassical styles?
  5. What was the new kind of music called and name some famous composers?
  6. How did literature change name some pieces of work?
  7. What does an enlightened despot mean and name some rulers and how they changed their country. Focus mostly on some of the specifics on Catherine the Great

Section 4

  1. Name all the acts and taxes and put them in chronological order.
  2. What did the British do in order to pay the debts of the French and Indian war and how did the colonists feel/
  3. What caused the Boston Tea Party and what happened? What was the effect?
  4. Describe what happened in both of the Continental Congresses.
  5. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
  6. Name some reasons for the colonist’s success.
  7. After independence what happened to the government, how did they try to solve the problem and what was their new government called?
  8. What is the bill of rights; name some of the basic human rights?

Chapter 23

Section 1

  1. What was the Old Regime and which country was it in?
  2. Describe the jobs and lives of all three estates.
  3. How did the enlightenment ideas affect the Third Estate?
  4. Why was the meeting of the Estates-General called?
  5. What was the National Assembly and what was the cause and the effect of it?
  6. What was the Tennis Court Oath?
  7. What was the storming of Bastille?
  8. What was the Great fear and what was the cause and effect?

Section 2

  1. What were some of the rights men had according to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen? Were women treated the same way?
  2. What happened due to the assembly taking over the church?
  3. What government did they eventually put? What was the Legislative Assembly and what power did they have?
  4. How was the Legislative Assembly split and what were the polices?
  5. There were factions that also wanted to have some power, name them and describe their polices and what they did to try to exert their own power?
  6. What was the cause of the war in 1792 and what happened because of it? What was the new governing body and what did it want?
  7. Who were the Jacobins?
  8. Who is Maximilien Robespierre? What is the republic of virtue? What is the reign of terror and what is the job of The Committee of Public Safety?
  9. What is the Directory?

Section 3

  1. What method did Napoleon use to take over and what does it mean?
  2. What is a plebiscite?
  3. How did he fix the economy and the corrupt government?
  4. What are lycées?
  5. What is a concordat and how did signing one increase Napoleon’s power?
  6. What is the Napoleonic Code?
  7. What were some of the benefits Napoleon got from selling the Louisiana territory to the U.S.?
  8. What happened at the battle of Trafalgar important and what was the effect of this outcome?

Section 4

  1. Name some of the reasons for Napoleon’s fall.
  2. What was the Continental System?
  3. What happened in the Peninsular War?
  4. What is the scorched-earth policy and why was it a mistake for Napoleon going to Russia?
  5. After Napoleon was exiled why was he welcomed back by the people of France?
  6. What happened at Waterloo and what was the Hundred Days?

Section 5

  1. What was the Congress of Vienna and when did it take place?
  2. Who was Prince Clemens von Metternich and what three things did he want to happen? What did the Congress do to make those happen?
  3. What is legitimacy?
  4. How did governments differ between the countries?
  5. What were the Holy Alliance and the Concert of Europe?
  6. How did the French Revolution influence the people and about what? Why did this scare some of the political leaders?
  7. What began happening in Latin America due to the French Revolution?
  8. What was the long-lasting legacy of the Congress of Vienna?

Chapter 24

Section 1

  1. How was the ladder of society in Latin America structured? Describe the people and what jobs they could have.
  2. Who was Toussaint L’Overture and what did he do?
  3. Why did Jean-Jacques Dessalines take over and what did he do?
  4. Why did the creoles revolt in Latin America?
  5. Who was Simón Bolívar and what did he do?
  6. Who was José de San Martin and what did he do?
  7. What happened when the forces met up and what did they do after that?
  8. Who was Padre Miguel Hidalgo and what did he do?
  9. Who was José María Morelos what did he do?
  10. How and why did creoles get Mexico’s independence?
  11. How did Central America and Brazil get their own independence?

Section 2

  1. What are the 3 groups who thought their type of government was good? What were their beliefs and what kind of people thought these ideas?
  2. What is nationalism?
  3. What is a nation-state?
  4. What was the Balkans?
  5. Who was Louis-Napoleon and what did he do?
  6. Who was Alexander II and what did he do? What happened after he died?

Section 3

  1. How did different people think about nationalism?
  2. Describe what happens in the Austrian Empire, the Russian Empire, and the Ottoman and why does this happen?
  3. What is Russification?

Who is Count Camillo di Cavour and how did he help Sardinia gain land?

  1. Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi and how did he help Sardinia gain land? Why was his group named the Red Shirts?
  2. What section of Italy did the pope control?
  3. Who is Wilhelm and why did he chose Otto von Bismarck as his prime minister?
  4. Who are Junkers?
  5. What is realpolitik?
  6. What caused the Seven Week’s war and what resulted due to it?
  7. What caused the Franco-Prussian war and what resulted due to it?
  8. Who became Kaiser and what does it mean? What is the first and second Reich?

Section 4

  1. What view did intellectuals and artists begin to express?
  2. What is romanticism and what are some of its ideals?
  3. Who are George Gordon and Lord Bryon and what did they do?
  4. How did romanticism affect literature, music, and plays name some specific people and pieces of work?
  5. What is realism and why and when does the world switch over to it?
  6. How is photography improved and how does it help show realism?
  7. How is literature affected?
  8. What impressionism and name some famous painters who used this style?
  9. How is music affected?

Chapter 25

Section 1

  1. What is the Industrial Revolution and where did it begin?
  2. What are enclosures and what were they used for?
  3. What is crop rotation and what other techniques and inventions helped the Agricultural Revolution?
  4. Why did many farmers become factory workers?
  5. What is industrialization? What are some natural resources and what were they used for?
  6. How and why did industrialization increase?
  7. What is meant by the factors of production and what are they?
  8. What inventions helped the textile industry grow, describe the inventions and tell the order they were made in?
  9. What is a factory?
  10. Name some inventions that improved transportation and what this did to the world?
  11. What are entrepreneurs?

Section 2

  1. What is urbanization and why did people move to the city?
  2. How were living conditions and working conditions in the cities during the 1800s?
  3. Who got the money from the Industrialization Revolution and who made up the middle class?
  4. How did the working class feel about working conditions? Who were the Luddites and what did they do?
  5. What were some of the long-term effects of the Industrial Revolution, good and bad?
  6. What was the Factory Act and what did it do?

Section 3

  1. How did the textile industry start in the U.S.?
  2. What helped the technological boom happen in the U.S?
  3. Why and how did Chicago and Minneapolis prosper?
  4. What are stocks, corporations, and stockholders?
  5. What did corporations try to do?
  6. How and why did Belgium, Germany, and other European countries go into industrialization? Why did some European countries not industrialize?
  7. Why did the gap in wealth increase between countries?
  8. How did society change?

Section 4

  1. How did different people want the government to act?
  2. What does laissez faire mean?
  3. Who is Adam Smith and what are the three natural laws of economics?
  4. What is capitalism?
  5. Who are Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo and what did they believe in?
  6. What is utilitarianism?
  7. Who are Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill and what did they believe in?
  8. Who is Robert Owen and what did he do?
  9. What is socialism and how does it differ from capitalism? What do socialists believe?
  10. Who are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and what do they believe in?
  11. What does proletariat and bourgeoisie mean and who are they?
  12. What is communism?
  13. What are unions and strikes?
  14. What do the combination acts do and what eventually happened to them?
  15. What is the AFL?
  16. What are Factory act of 1833, Mine Act, and the Ten Hours Act of 1847?
  17. What is the National Child Labor Committee?
  18. How and why did slavery get abolished?
  19. How and why did women fight for their rights?
  20. What did Jane Addams do?
  21. What other areas were affect by reforms?

Chapter 26

Section 1

  1. How did the House of Lords and commons change in Britain?
  2. What does suffrage mean?
  3. What did Reform Bill of 1832 do and why was it passed?
  4. What was the Chartist movement and what party was made because of it? What did the party want?
  5. Why did members of Parliament have to be rich?
  6. Who was Queen Victoria and what happened to Britain in the Victorian Age?
  7. Why didn’t many people want women to vote?
  8. What is the WSPU and who was the leader?
  9. What was the Third Republic and where was it located?
  10. What was the Dreyfus affair and what happened because of it?
  11. What are anti-Semitism and Zionism?
  12. Who are Émile Zola and Theodor Herzl?

Section 2

  1. What did the British do to stop the French people and the English people from fighting?
  2. Why was Lord Durham sent and what did he suggest?
  3. What is a dominion?
  4. Who are the Maori and the Aborigines?
  5. What is a penal colony?
  6. Why did people begin to settle in Australia?
  7. How was Australia different from Canada?
  8. Describe Australia’s and New Zealand’s government?
  9. What began to happen to the native people?
  10. When did Ireland formally join Britain?
  11. What were the effects of the Greta famine?
  12. Some Irish wanted independence, but more of them preferred home rule, what is home rule?
  13. Just as Britain was about to give home rule, what happened?
  14. What was the IRA do and what did they accomplish?
  15. What did Eamon De Valera do for Ireland?

Section 3

  1. What was manifest destiny?
  2. What was the Trail of Tears and what caused it?
  3. How did the U.S get Texas?
  4. Why did Mexico declare war on the U.S and what did we gain from winning?
  5. How did the North and South’s economies and ideas about the west differ?
  6. What was the direct cause of the southern sates seceding and what does secede mean?
  7. What advantages did the North have that allowed them to beat the South?
  8. What did the Emancipation Proclamations do?
  9. What do the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments do?
  10. What did the South encourage after federal troops left?
  11. What did the railroads do for the U.S.?

Section 4

  1. What kinds of new power were coming in the late 1800’s?
  2. Name Edison’s three main inventions.
  3. How did Alexander Bell’s and Guglielmo Marconi’s inventions affect communication?
  4. How did Henry Ford make cars cheap and affordable and what is an assembly?
  5. Who are the Wright brothers and what did they do?
  6. What did Louis Pasteur find out and what is pasteurization?
  7. What did Joseph Lister do?
  8. What public officials and medical researchers do that helped people live longer?
  9. Who is Charles Darwin and what was his theory of evolution?
  10. What did Mendel find out?
  11. What did Dalton, Mendeleev, and the Curies each discover?
  12. What is radioactivity?
  13. What did Ernest Rutherford suggest?
  14. What is phycology and what does Ivan Pavlov believe?
  15. What does Sigmund Freud believe in?
  16. What is mass culture?
  17. What did people do for entertainment?

Chapter 27

Section 1

  1. What is imperialism?
  2. Why couldn’t Europeans control that much land in Africa until the late 1800’s?
  3. What was Henry Stanley’s job the first time in the Congo
  4. What did King Leopold II ask Stanley to do and what did he use the lands for? Who took the lands away?
  5. Why drove European countries to colonize Africa?
  6. What is racism and Social Darwinism?
  7. What things allowed the Europeans to finally go and take over parts of Africa?
  8. What was the point of the Berlin Conference?
  9. What happened between the Zulus and Britain? Who was Shaka?
  10. Who are Boers and why were they fighting the British and about what?
  11. What was the Boer War and what happened in it? What was the cause of it?

Section 2

  1. What are the different ways the African colonies were controlled and explain them?
  2. What is the difference between indirect control and direct control?
  3. What is paternalism and assimilation?
  4. What was the Royal Niger Company?
  5. Why was Nigeria so complicated to control?
  6. What happened in the rebellions in Algeria, West Africa, and German East Africa?
  7. Ethiopia had the only successful rebellion, why did they win, but not the others? Who is Menelik II?
  8. What were some of the positive and negative effects of Europeans coming? Which were more positive effects or negative effect?

Section 3

  1. Why was the Ottoman Empire losing power?
  2. What does geopolitics mean? Why was the land of the Ottoman Empire wanted so badly?
  3. What was the cause of the Crimean War and why happened because of it?
  4. Who was Florence Nightingale and what did she do?
  5. What was “The Great Game”
  6. Who is Muhammad Ali and what reforms did he pass in Egypt?
  7. What is the Suez Canal and who had control of it first? Who eventually got control of it?
  8. What is a concession and why did Persia grant some?
  9. What happened after Nasir al-Din sold a tobacco concession to Persia?
  10. How did the government change in 1906 and in 1907?

Section 4

  1. What are sepoys?
  2. Why was India a “jewel in a crown”?
  3. Why did the railroad system and wars make India more valuable?
  4. What were some of the positive and negative effects of British colonialism on India?
  5. What was the Sepoy Mutiny and what caused it? What was the effect of it?
  6. Why couldn’t the Indians unite?
  7. What does the term Raj mean?
  8. Who was Ram Mohun Roy and what did he help do? Why did Indians hate the system that made them second-class citizens? What 3 ideas did the Indians start thinking about?
  9. What were the two nationalist parties? What did they focus on?
  10. What event also inflamed nationalists?

Section 5