Study Guide-Updated
Chapters 24 & 25
Chapter 24
HW ps. 787-795. Lecture: Topic: Social Structure, Cities to Urban Planning.–detailed
look. HW 795-805, due on Friday.
Read pages 800-801. Images in Society and HW Ps. 805-812
Lecture Topic: Science and Thought. .HW, reading pages 812-818 also read Middle
Class Youth and Sexuality. Answer questions 1-4. The questions on Middle Class youth
and the following questions, along with the key ideas and people are due on paper on
Block day
Answer the following questions
1. How did the distribution of wealth change in the industrial society?
2. What group was most opposed to drinking? Why?
3. Why were conditions in the cities deplorable?
4. Regarding illegitimacy, why is 1850 significant?
5. How did the working classes’ view of marriage change during the nineteenth
century?
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Know the following people and key ideas:
1. Edwin Chadwick
2. Louis Pasteur
3. Charles Darwin
4. Sigmund Freud
5. Gustave Flaubert
6. Emile Zola
7. Auste Comte
8. Joseph Lister
Key ideas
1. Theory of biological evolution
2. Antiseptic principal
3. realist movement
4. unconscious psychological energy
5. middle-class morality
Additional reading: Chapter 24 in Viault
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Chapter 25
Lecture topic: Napoleon III to Nation Building in Italy And Nation building in
Germany
HW Ps. 823-830. Video HW
Lecture topic: Modernization of Russia, Revolution of 1905, to the responsive nation
state. HW. Ps. 846-850.
Lecture Topic: Republican France to Marxism and unions. HW: Ps. 850-860. Video
Map assignment in class
1. How was Germany unified? Describe Bismarck’s methods. What were the long
term results?
2. How did nationalism become a universal faith in Europe between 1850 and 1914?
3. Why did the voters of France elect Louis Napoleon president in 1848? What
happened a few years later?
4. Explain Napoleon’s political system and why it eventually broke down.
5. What were the 3 basic approaches to Italian unification? Which one prevailed?
6. What was the significance of Garibaldi’s liberation of Sicily and Naples? Why
was Cavour nervous about Garibaldi?
7. Why did the Prussian liberals support Bismarck after 1860?
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8. What was the status of the Russian serf in the early nineteenth century?
9. What was Bismarck’s relationship, after 1871, with the Catholic Church, the
liberals, and the socialists?
10. What were the German social-welfare laws?
11. What were the major political developments and issues in Britain and Ireland in
the late nineteenth century?
12. How were ethnic rivalries and growing anti-Semitism related in the AustroHungary?
13. What were the general arguments of the revisionist socialist? Why did Marxism
seem to lose its push in Europe?
People to know
1. Benjamin Disraeli
2. Sergi Witte
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3. Alexander II
4. Cavour
5. Edward Berstein
6. William Gladstone
7. Garibaldi
8. William II
9. Bismarck
Key Ideas
1. People’s Budget
2. Napoleon III coup d’etat
3. Blood and iron
4. Establishment of the Austro-Hungarian Monarch
5. Paris Commune of 1871
6. Ulster revolt of 12/1913
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