Friday, March 3, 2017

Review Sheet 1750-1900


QUIZAM is Thursday March 9th
Test (stimulus) is on Monday 13th. 

REVIEW SHEET
Time Period: 1750-1900 CE

Industrial Revolution:

  • For each region: Great Britain, United States, Japan, France, Germany, Russia
    • Time Period
    • Impact
    • Results (globally and nationally)
    • What events/circumstances caused changes in global commerce, communications, and technology?
    • What events caused changes in patterns of world trade, including effect of demographic increase on consumerism and migration?
    • Changes: Changes in social and gender structure and work patterns and ideas about gender.
    • Changes: Changes in Commercial and demographic developments.
  • Major Comparisons: Compare causes and early phases of the industrial revolution in Western Europe and Japan.
  • Changes: Changes in patterns of world trade Industrial Revolution (transformative effects on and differential timing in different societies; mutual relation of industrial and scientific developments; commonalities)

Rise of Western Dominance:

  • For each region: South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, East Africa, Middle East, Russia, Japan, Latin America
    • Causes/Motives
    • Social Darwinism
    • Impact of Technology
    • Patterns of expansion, imperialism and colonialism
    • Economic, Political, Social, Cultural, and Artistic examples of Western Dominance
    • Examples of different cultural and political reactions (reform, resistance, rebellion, racism, nationalism, social Darwinism, Marxism)
    • Impact on both the colony and Mother Country
  • Compare forms of western intervention in Latin America and Africa (ANC)
  • Compare Foreign domination in: Ottoman Empire (Decline and Reform); China (Opium War, Treaty of Nanjing, Taiping Rebellion, Boxer Rebellion, Sun Yixian & 1911 Revolution); India (Sepoy Mutiny, Indian National Congress), Japan (Meiji Restoration) 

Political Revolutions & Independence Movements (and New Political Ideals):

·         Enlightenment, Philosophers, Enlightened Despots & Impact
·         For each region: United States, France, Haiti, Latin American independence movements, Mexican Revolution of 1910, Chinese Revolution of 1911
o    Time Period
o    Influences and Causes (It can include…Influence of the Enlightenment & Growth of the Middle Class)
o    Leader/Support groups,
o    Results and who benefitted
o    Effects
·         Compare revolutions: (possibly two of the following: Haitian, American, French, Mexican, Chinese)
·         Comparative Nationalism
·         Also, French Revolution of 1789 (Not 1830) and Jacobins

·         Rise of Nationalism, Nation-States, and movements of Political Reform
o    German states/ Bismarck -- Unification
o    Italy -- Unification
o    Comparative Nationalism

·         Overlaps between nations and Empires

·         New Ideals and Impact
o    Socialism/ Engels
o    Thomas Malthus
o    Karl Marx/ Marxism/ Communism
o    Adam Smith/ Capitalism
o    Radicalism
o    Conservativism
o    Liberalism
o    Rise of Democracy and its limitations: reform; women; racism

·         Egypt, Muhammad Ali and Suez Canal (Also, impact of Suez Canal)

Diverse Interpretations: Changes and Comparisons
  • New Directions in Artistic Expression (ie Romanticism, Impression, etc)
  • Changes in social structure: Emancipation of serfs and slaves.
    • What are the debates about the causes and slave emancipation in this period, and how do these debates fit into broader comparisons of labor systems?
  • Changes in Gender Roles:
    • Women’s emancipation movements
    • Compare the roles and conditions of women in the upper/middle classes with peasantry/working class in Western Europe.
    • What are the debates over the nature of women’s role in this period, and how do these debates apply to industrialized areas, and how do they apply to colonial societies. 
  • Demographic and Environmental Changes
    • Migrations
    • End of the Atlantic Slave Trade
    • New Birthrate Patterns
    • Food Supply
·         What are the debates over the utility of modernization theory as a framework for interpreting events in this period to the next?
·         Continuities and breaks, causes of changes and continuities from the previous period and within this period

Questions of periodization: What is unique to this time period that leads it to have its own “time?”
·    The west (Europe & the U.S.) becomes the major “player” in world events
·    Beginning in the early 1700s, Europeans truly had a hold on “colonies” around the world.
·    World trading networks were dominated by the west, but they still impacted the world.
·    Countries either “have” industrialization and economic development or were “have nots”
·    Political, social, and economic revolutions swept the world during this time period.
o Enlightenment
o American and French Revolutions
o Haitian Revolution
o Industrial Revolution
o Rise of Capitalism and Adam Smith
o Unification of states (Germany, Italy, United States)
o Nationalism
o Imperialism
o Colonialism

Other major changes:
·    Suez and Panama Canals allowed for quicker travel times.
·    Technological advances in travel – ships, railroads, etc., increase travel of humans and goods worldwide.
·    Huge migration movements to the Americas from Europe and Asia.
·   Industrial Revolution set up mother countries who would have factories and they needed raw materials – colonies that only were used for raw materials. Economic advances and development were not carried out in countries controlled by Europe. Led to lack of development that still plagues Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia today.
·   Serf and slave systems ended in most parts of the world.
·   Political revolutions and independence movements



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