Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Day 11-Final Day of 1st Semester

Prepare for your Final Exam. Have a good 4th of July Holiday, we'll start 2nd semester on Monday July 6.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Day 10- WWI Con't

Finish HW from Day 9 and study for Final Exam.

Day 9-World War I

Homework Questions for Monday 6/29. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Wednesday 7/1.

Vocabulary Map Vocabulary:
Triple Entente
Triple Alliance
Militarism
Alsace and Lorraine
Ultimatum
Mobilize
Neutrality
Alliance System
Imperialism
Nationalism
Assassination
Serbian
Black Hand
Gavrilo Princip
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Stalemate
Zeppelin
U-boat
Convoy
Dardanelles
Western Front
Eastern Front
Allies
Central Powers
Schlieffen Plan
Battle of the Marne
Verdun
Tannenburg
Trench Warfare
Ottoman Empire
Armenian Genocide
Total War
Conscription
Lusitania
Propaganda
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Zimmerman Telegram
President Wilson
14 points
Self-Determination
League of Nations
Armistice
Reparations
Collective Security
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Reading Questions:
1. What caused WWI and what effect did it have on world events?
2. Why did European countries form alliances?
3. Why was the Balkan peninsula known as the "Powder Keg" of Europe?
4. How did Austria react to the assassination of the archduke?
5. How and where was WWI fought?
6. Why did the Turks dislike the Armenians?
7. Describe three ways in which technology affected WWI?
8. How did Nationalism within the Ottoman Empire come into play during the war?
9. How did the Allies win WWI?
10. What measures did wartime government take to control public opinion?
11. What impact did wartime failures have on Russia?
12. Explain why America got involved in WWI?
13. Why was the American entry into the war a turning point?
14. Describe the conditions in Europe after WWI?
15. Explain how the Treaty of Versailles treated Germany?
16. How might the Treaty of Versailles have started WWII?

Monday, June 23, 2008

DAY 8- Imperialism Con't

NO new homework for today.

Just Finish your Imperialism Project.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Day 7: The Age of Imperialism

Homework Questions for Wednesday 6/24. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Thursday 6/25.

Vocabulary Map Vocabulary:
Imperialism
Racism
Berlin Conference
Social Darwinism
Sphere of Influence
Protectorate
Colony
Paternalism
Economic Imperialism
Menelik II
Boer War
Shaka Zulu
Missionaries
King Leopold II
Scramble for Africa
Ethiopia
Ottoman Empire
Armenia
Armenian Genocide
Suez Canal
Muhammad Ali
Sepoy
"jewel in the crown"
Sepoy Mutiny
Ram Mohun Roy
Hindu
Muslim
Opium War
Boxer Rebellion
Extraterritoriality
Open Door Policy
John Hayes

Reading Questions:
1. What are the European motives of Imperialism?
2. How was Imperialsim able to spread through Africa and Asia so quickly?
3. What are the forms of Imperial Rule?
4. What factors shaped each of the main regions of Africa? (North, South, East, West)
5. How did Ethiopia resist European rule?
6. How was the economy of India transformed by the British?
7. How did the scramble for African colonies begin?
8. How did the Berlin Conference decide the fate of Africa?
9. What caused the sepoy Mutiny?
10. How was western imperialism a source of stress in muslim regions of the world?
11. How did Egypt fall into the hands of British Control?
12. How did westerns get trading rights in China in the 1800's?
13. Why were natural resources of Africa and Asia important to Europeans in the 1800's?
14. How did western industrial powers gain global empires?

Monday, June 16, 2008

Day 6 - The Industrial Revolution

Homework Questions for Tuesday 6/23. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Wednesday 6/24.

Vocabulary Map Vocabulary
Industrial Revolution
Agricultural revolution
James Watt
enclosures
industrialization
immigration
capital
enterprise
entrepreneur
textile industry
Eli Whitney
flying shuttle
water frame
spinning jenny
transportation revolution
Liverpool
Manchester
tenement
urbanization
labor union
Thomas Malthus
Jeremy Bentham
utilitarianism
socialism
communism
Utopianism
Robert Owen
Karl Marx
Henry Bessemer
Thomas Edison
interchangeable parts
assembly line
stock
corporation
population boom
Louis Pasteur
Joseph Lister
middle class
standard of living
cult of domesticity
women's suffrage
Social Darwinism
romanticism
realism
impressionism
Vincent Van Gogh
Claude Monet


Reading Questions
1. How did the Agricultural Revolution lead to the Industrial revolution?
2. Identify 3 of the main causes that led to the population boom of the late 1700s.
3. Describe the 4 factors that led Britain to be the first country to industrialize.
4. How did the Industrial Revolution transform the textile industry. Cite specific examples.
5. Compare and contrast the ideas of Karl Marx and Adam Smith.
6. How did the Industrial Revolution improve city life?
7. How did the Industrial Revolution make city life worse?
8. How did the Industrial Revolution influence the creation of the middle class?
9. How did artists and others respond to industrialization?
10. What were the technological, social and economic effects of the Industrial Revolution?

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Day 5- Napoleon and Latin American Revolutions

Homework Questions for Monday 6/22. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Tuesday 6/23.

Vocabulary Map Vocab:
Napoleon Bonaparte
Coup d' Etat
Plebiscite
Napoleonic Code
The Directory
Continental System
Battle of Trafalgar
Blockade
Scorched Earth Policy
Invasion of Russia
Peninsular War
Waterloo
St. Helena
Hundred Days
Elba
Congress of Vienna
Abdicated
Concert of Europe
Legitimacy
Nationalism
peninsulare
creole
mestizo
mulatto
Simon Bolivar
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Father Miguel Hidalgo
Father Jose Morelos
Jose de San Martin
Dom Pedro
abolition


Reading Questions
1. Explain how Napoleon rose to power.
2. Describe the three mistakes that led to Napoleon's downfall.
3. How did geography both help and hurt Britain during it's war with France?
4. What reforms did Napoleon introduce to France during his reign of power?
5. How did growing feelings of nationalism in Europe both help and hurt Napoleon?
6. Who was part of the Quadruple Alliance and what was it's purpose?
7. Explain the chief goal and outcome of the Congress of Vienna.
8. From France's point of view, were the decisions made at the Congress of Vienna fair?
9. How did the Congress assure peace in Europe for the next 38 years?

ALSO: COMPLETE THE REVOLUTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA WORKSHEET.

Day 4- The French Revolution

Homework Questions for Thursday 6/18. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Monday 6/22.

Vocabulary Map Vocab:
French Revolution
Old Regime
Estates
bourgeoisie
Louis XIV
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Estates General
Tennis Court Oath
Maximilien Robespierre
Bastille
Guillotine
Jean Paul Marat
Declaration of Rights of Man
Reign of Terror
Committee of Public Safety
Jacobins
Napoleon Bonaparte

Reading Questions:
1. What led to the storming of the Bastille, and therefore, to the start of the French Revolution?
2. What economic troubles did France face in 1789?
3. What actions did delegates of the Third Estate take when the Estates-General met in 1789?
4. What political and social reforms did the National Assembly institute in the first stage of the French Revolution?
5. How was the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen similar to the American Declaration of Independence?
6. What did Marie Antoinette represent to the people of France?
7. What role did Marat play in the French Revolution?
8. What events occurred during the radical phase of the French Revolution?
9. How did Robespierre justify the use of terror during the Reign of Terror?
10. What were the goals of the Committee of Public Safety?
11. Summarize the goals and actions of the Jacobins?
12. What changes occurred in France because of the French Revolution?

Monday, June 2, 2008

Day 3 - Scientific Revolution, The Enlightenment and the American Revolution

Homework Questions for Wednesday 6/17. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Thursday 6/18.

Vocabulary Map Vocab:
Scientific Revolution
Geocentric Theory
Heliocentric Theory
Galileo Galilei
scientific method
Isaac Newton
Edward Jenner
innoculation
The Enlightenment
Social Contract
John Locke
Voltaire
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
Montesquieu
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
natural law
natural rights
separation of powers
checks and balances
Diderot's Encyclopedia
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations
salons
censorship
enlightened despots
popular sovereignty
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
federal republic
Bill of Rights
United States Constitution

Reading Questions:
1. What effects did Enlightenment philosophers have on government and society?
2. Why might institutions of authority tend to reject new ideas?
3. How did Hobbes and Locke differ in their views on the role of government?
4. Explain the meaning of Voltaire's quote, "I do not agree with a word you say but, will defend to the death your right to say it."
5. Explain separation of powers and checks and balances in relationship to American government.
6. Why was the issue of education so important to Wollstonecraft?
7. Explain, in your own words, Rousseau's social contract theory.
8. In what way were enlightened depots less than true reformers?
9. How did John Locke's enlightened ideas influence the founding fathers?
10. How does the Bill of Rights reflect key enlightenment ideas?
11. Explain the following ideas: Federalism, Separation of Powers, Popular Sovereignty, and Individual Rights?

Day 2 - Renaissance and Reformation

Homework Questions for Tuesday 6/16. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Wednesday 6/17.

Vocabulary Map Vocab
Renaissance
Roman Catholic Church
Reformation
printing press
humanism
secularism
individualism
Protestantism
Martin Luther
Tetzel
95 Theses
indulgence
John Calvin
predestination
theocracy
Presbyterian
Anabaptist
Catholic Reformation
Jesuits
Leonardo DaVinci
Michelangelo
Donatello
Raphael
Johann Gutenberg
Gutenberg Bible
William Shakespeare
Thomas More
utopia
vernacular

Reading Questions
1. Why did the Renaissance start in Italy?
2. How does the work of Michelangelo show that he was influenced by Renaissance values?
3. Define the term "Renaissance Man" and describe how Leonardo DaVinci is a true "Renaissance Man".
4. How are the ideals of democracy and the Renaissance similar?
5. How did the Reformation promote the idea of individualism?
6. How did the Reformation indirectly contribute to the growth of democracy?
7. How did the printing press help promote the ideals of democracy?
8. What were the major effects of the invention of the printing press?
9. What is the Reformation?
10. How did Martin Luther start the Reformation?
11. Did the Reformation strengthen or weaken the Roman Catholic Church? Explain your answer.
12. Explain the idea of predestination in relation to Calvinism.
13. List the Reformers discussed in class and in readings and explain their ideas.