Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Modern World History Chapter 18--The Revolutions--Test Review

Test date:  Monday, November 11

Format:
  • 15 multiple choice questions, each worth 3 points (45 points)
  • Two essay questions (choose ONE), 55 points

 Material you are responsible for:

  • The major characteristics and developments of the Scientific Revolution, including:
    • Major scientists, their fields of study, and their discoveries/contributions
      • Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Boyle, Vesalius, Des Cartes, Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton

  • The major characteristics of the Enlightenment, including
    • The connection to the Scientific Revolution
    • The individual philosophes and their ideas
      • John Locke
      • Voltaire
      • Rousseau
      • Montesquieu
      • Adam Smith
    • The different forms the Enlightenment took (for example, the Enlightenment in Russia, Austria, and Prussia)

  • The causes and consequences of the American Revolution and its relationship to the Enlightenment
    • The 7 Years/French and Indian War
    • Salutory Neglect
    • British taxation policies and colonial response
    • The Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party
    • The Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Declaration of Indpendence
    • American strategy against the British
    • The Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the importance of the new Constitution

  • The causes, characteristics, and consequences of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era including
    • The influence of the Enlightenment and the Philosophes
    • The social dynamics of Paris vs. the countryside of France
    • The polices of King Louis XVI and the conflict between the nobility and the monarchy over taxation
    • Chronology of events beginning with the calling of the Estates General in May of 1789 through the end of the Directory in 1799
    • Reasons for increasing radicalism and changes of government during the French Revolution (including the different forms of government that France went through from the Monarchy to Napoleon)
    • The significance of the Jacobins, Robespierre, and the Reign of Terror
    • The relationship between Napoleon and the French Revolution
    • A comparison of the French Revolution and the American Revolution and an understanding of the “Revolutionary Paradigm” (the pendulum metaphor)





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