SOME REVIEW MATERIAL FOR SECOND EXAMINATION
REVIEW SHEET 15
SLAVERY AND THE CRISIS OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM
pp. 702-708
1.Focus Question: What factors fostered regionalism in the American Republic?
2.Focus Question: What economic factors helped to "split" the American Republic?
3.Focus Question: Where and how did the abolitionist movement evolve in the American Republic and what was the nature of the distrust between North and South?
4.Focus Question:How did the Canadian Experience differ from that of the United States?
John Brown
Quebec Act of 1774
Canada Act of 1840
Durham Report
REVIEW SHEET 16
MIDCENTURY POLITICAL CONSOLIDATION IN EUROPE
pp. 708-717
1.Focus Question:What events brought an end of the Concert of Europe, and what was its impact?
2.Focus Question:How did Italy achieve unification, and what were the results?
3.Focus Question:How was the unification of Germany achieved and what was it significance?
4.Focus Question:What prompted the Franco-Prussian War and were the results?
5.Focus Question: What was the fate of the Hapsburg Empire in the wake of the defeat in the Seven Weeks War?
6.Focus Question:What factors gave rise to anti-Semitism during the latter have of the 19th century?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Seven Weeks' War
The Jewish State
Essay on the Inequality
of the Human Races
REVIEW SHEET 17
EUROPEAN ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, 1815-1914: CHANGING URBAN LIFE
pp. 725-730
1.Focus Question:What developments contributed to European/American domination of the world in the nineteenth century?
2.Focus Question: What was the fate of traditional workers during the second quarter of the 19th century?
3.Focus Question: How was urban life changed during the late nineteenth century?
4.Focus Question: How did sanitation reform contribute to a new model of urban life?
Proletarianization
Urbanization
REVIEW SHEET18
NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPEAN WOMEN
pp.730-740
1.Focus Question:What role did women play in the early Industrial Revolution?
2.Focus Question:What social disabilities confronted all women during this period?
3.Focus Question:What two late nineteenth century developments affected the economic lives of women?
4.Focus Question:When and why did political feminism arise?
Mary Wollstonecraft
The Vindication of
the Rights of Women
The Subjection of
Women
REVIEW SHEET 19
JEWISH EMANCIPATION, LABOR AND SOCIALISM PRIOR TO WWI
pp. 740-746
Focus Question:How and when was Jewish Emancipation accomplished?
Focus Question: How did the work force change in the later part of the 19th century?
Focus Question: What impact did Marx have on the development on socialism?
Focus Question: What were the different forms of socialism that appeared in Europe, and how were they similar and how were they different?
Revisionism
Opportunism
Kommunist Manifesto
REVIEW SHEET 20
LABOR AND SOCIALISMIN RUSSIAN & USA PRIOR TO WWI
pp. 746-754
1.Focus Question: How and why does socialism in Russia develop as a revolutionary movement? Focus Question: How does the United States develop in the industrial age
2.Focus Question: How did the Progressives attempt to deal with the problems of American industrialization?
3.Focus Question: What developments in Europe and the U.S. would most impact the rest of the world?
REVIEW SHEET 21
LATIN AMERICA:INDEPENDENCE TO THE 1940S
pp.759-781
1.Focus Question:What was the nature of Latin American social and economic life after the wars of independence?
2.Focus Question:How did Latin America's social and political structure reflect its economic system?
3.Focus Question: How does Latin America's history define its present political and economic situation?
4.Focus Question: Why did many Latin American nations find it difficult to develop stable political regimes?
neocolonial economy
caudillo
Juan Perón
La Reforma
Benito Juárez
Emilian Zapata
Pancho Villa
Lázaro Cádenas
The Paraguayan War of 1865-1870
REVIEW SHEET 22
INDIA AND THE ISLAMIC HEARTLANDS (1800-1945)
pp.785-794
1.Focus Question:How did India fall under British dominance and what were the consequences for India?
2.Focus Question: How did the coming of the Crown Raj change the relationship between the British and Indians?
3.Focus Question: How did India achieve independence and what major "rift" resulted?
Sepoy Rebellion
"jewel in the crown"
Warren Hastings
Cantonments
REVIEW SHEET 23
THE ISLAMIC AND AFRICAN EXPERIENCE OF WESTERN EXPANSION (1800-1945)
pp. 794-807
1.Focus Question:What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Islamic empires in the 18th century?
2.Focus Question:How did Europeans come to dominate the Islamic world?
3.Focus Question: How did different Islamic countries react to European encroachment?
4.Focus Question:How did Africa change during this period?
5.Focus Question:What religious movements marked this period in Africa and how did they change African and European relations?
6.Focus Question:How and why did the various European powers come to dominate African lands?
Iman [Arab = leader] a recognized leader or a religious teacher.Any pious Muslim can function as iman.The term is also used as a synonym for caliph,
God's vice-regent.Among SHI'ITES the belief arose that a hidden or unrecognized imam, or true caliph (the MAHDI) , would return at the end of the world
and restore the true CALIPHATE.
Sufism --Muslim philosophical and literary movement which emerged among the Shi'ites in the late 10th and early 11th century.Stressed the immediate
personal union of the soul with God.
mufti -- a professional jurist who interprets Islamic law
ulama
“the sick man of Europe”
Tanzimat reforms
Mustafa Kemal
REVIEW SHEET 24
MODERN CHINA(1839-1949)
pp.813-829
Focus Question:What were the strengths and weaknesses of Japan and China as they faced Western imperialism?
Focus Question:What internal problems did China face during this period and how did it attempt to solve them?
Focus Question: How did China react to its defeat by Japan in 1895 and its weakness before the Western powers?
Focus Question: Why do the Communists succeed in taking power in China?
"Unequal Treaties"
“self-strengthening”
treaty ports
Hermit kingdom
Sun Yat-sen
Mao Tse-tung
three “peoples principles”
Kuomintang
May Fourth Movement
"Long March"
Chiang Kaishek
REVIEW SHEET 25
MODERN JAPAN (1853-1945)
pp.829-845
Focus Question:What factors led to the fail of the Tokugawa Bakufu?
Focus Question: What was the nature of new Meiji government?
Focus Question: How and why do the Japanese modernize?
Focus Question: What was the nature of the political system of the Meiji Government?
Focus Question: Why did Japan go to war against the United States?
Focus Question: Why did Japan and China take different routes toward modernization?
Commodore Perry
Meiji Restoration
Ito Hirobumi
"Civilization and Enlightenment" Movement
Zaibatsu
oligarchs
daimyo
Seiyukai
General Tojo
kamikaze