Name:________________________________Period:______Date:__________________
Ms. Ramos
World Honors
Final Exam Review
Final Exam Date & Time:________________________________________________
The final will cover:
 Chapter 16: Atlantics Revolutions and their Echoes
 Chapter 17: Revolutions of Industrializations
 Chapter 19: Empires in Collision
 Chapter 20: Collapse at the Center
Questions to Consider:
1. What Enlightenment ideas influenced the Atlantic Revolutions? Provide 3
examples from various revolutions that illustrate the use of these principles.
2. What made the Atlantic revolutions revolutionary in world history?
3. What were the driving forces behind the abolition of slavery?
4. Among the Atlantic revolutions, why is the French Revolution considered to be
more radical than the American Revolution?
5. What did humankind gain from the Industrial Revolution, and what did it lose?
6. In what ways was the Industrial Revolution a global phenomenon?
7. What lay behind the peasant rebellions of the nineteenth century?
8. What lay behind the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century?
9. How did Japan’s relationship to the larger world change during its modernization
process?
10. What explains the disasters that befell Europe in the first half of the twentieth
century?
11. In what ways were the world wars a motor for change in the history of the
twentieth century?
12. To what extent were the two world wars distinct and different conflicts, and in
what ways were they related to each other? In particular, how did the First World
War and its aftermath lay the foundations for World War II?
Chapter 16: Atlantic Revolutions and their Echoes
Words of Significance:
popular sovereignty, North American Revolution, French Revolution, Declaration of
Rights of Man and Citizen, Tennis Court Oath, the Terror, Estates General, Napoleon
Bonaparte, Haitian Revolution, Toussiant Louverture, Latin American Revolutions,
Miguel Hidalgo, José Morelos, nationalism, Declaration of the Rights of Woman,
maternal feminism, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Conference
Comparing Atlantic Revolutions
Main beneficiaries of revolutions
Core notion of Atlantic revolutions
What Atlantic revolutions shared
Ways Atlantic revolutions differed
The North American Revolution 1775-1789
Causes of American Revolution
Major goal of American Revolution
Political Outcomes of American Revolution on colonial societies
The French Revolution 1789-1815
How French Revolution was distinct from American Revolution
Estates General (who made up each of the three estates)
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
Tennis Court Oath
Terror of 1793-1794
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Haitian Revolution 1791-1804
Distinct feature of the Haitian Revolution
Grands blancs
Petits blancs
Gens de couleur libres
Toussaint Louverture
How land was distributed post revolution
Spanish American Revolutions 1810-1826
Reasons why independence movements were limited
Causes of Spanish American revolutions
Reasons Spanish colonies were unable to unite
Miguel Hidalgo and José Morelos
The Abolition of Slavery
How the end of the Atlantic slave trade affected Africa
Where abolition of slavery meet most resistance
Freetown, Sierra Leon
Nations and Nationalism
Nationalism
Examples of states that unified as a result of nationalism
Civic nationalism and examples of countries that use this ideology
How nationalism affected the relationships among European rivals
Non-European examples of nationalism
Feminist Beginnings
Achievements of the feminist movement
Maternal feminism
Seneca Falls Conference
Arguments against feminism
Chapter 17: Revolution of Industrialization
Why Europe?
Reasons Europe industrialized
Why Great Britain?
Reasons Britain industrialized first
The British Aristocracy
The Middle Classes
How much this class benefited from Industrial Revolution
Values of the middle class
Samuel Smiles and Self Help
Role of women and work
“Shopping”
The Laboring Classes
How much this class benefited from Industrial Revolution
Characteristics of urbanization
Role of women and work
Social Protest Among the Laboring Classes
Robert Owen
Marx’s beliefs about communism
Factors Marx did not envision within capitalistic societies
Role of the Labour Party
Bourgeoisie
proletariat
Comparing Industrialization in the U.S. and Russia
Common characteristics of industrialization wherever it occurred
Ways industrialization differed in various countries
Adam Smith’s arguments for capitalism
The United States: Industrialization without Socialism
Reasons socialism failed in U.S.
Progressives
Populists
Russia: Industrialization and Revolution
Role of state (in regards to change and industrialization)
Unique characteristic of industrialization in Russia
Reforms enacted after 1905 Revolution
Role of WWI
After Independence in Latin America
Political views of conservatives
Political views of liberals
Caudillos
Changes in social life after independence
Facing the World Economy
Way(s) Latin America was connected to global economy
Becoming Like Europe
Elites vision for Latin America
Country to have successful nationwide revolution
Features of dependent development
Chapter 19: Empires in Collision
New Motives New Means
Ways Industrial Revolution drove 19th century imperialism
New Perceptions of Others
Reasons Europeans changed their attitudes towards Asians and Africans
Ways Europeans tried to “civilize” weaker races
CHINA
The Crisis Within
Causes of the Taiping Uprising
Effect of the Taiping Uprising
Western Pressures
Causes of the Opium Wars
Effects of the Opium Wars
The Failure of Conservative Modernization
Self Strengthening policies
OTTOMAN EMPIRE
The Sick Man of Europe
Factors that contributed to the decline of the Ottoman Empire
Territory lost by Ottoman Empire
Reform and Its Opponents
Goal of Tanzimat Reforms
Goal of Young Turks
Goal of Young Ottomans
Outcomes: Comparing China and the Ottoman Empire
JAPAN
The Tokugawa Background
Tokugawa shogun
Daimyo
Samurai
American Intrusion and the Meiji Restoration
Unequal treaties
Modernization Japanese Style
Causes of the Meiji Restoration
Effects of the Meiji Restoration
Japan and the World
Anglo – Japanese Treaty
Territories gained by Japan
Chapter 20: Collapse at the Center
An Accident Waiting to Happen
States that unified in Europe before WWI
Reasons for the outbreak of WWI
Role of Europe’s colonies in WWI
Legacies of the Great War
Provisions of the Treaty of Versailles
New nations that emerged after WWI
Woodrow Wilson’s role at the Paris peace conference
Effect of WWI on women
Capitalism Unraveling: The Great Depression
Least successful country at recovering from the Great Depression
Effects of the Great Depression on the United States, Europe, and the world economy
The Fascist Alternative in Europe
Features of fascism in Italy
Hitler and the Nazis
Features of fascism in Germany
Reasons for popular support of Hitler
Factors the Nazis put forward that made war desirable
Japanese Authoritarianism
Ways Japan experience was similar to Germany in the 1920s-1930s
The Road to War in Asia
Japan’s motives for going to war
Origin of WWII in Asia
Rape of Nanking
The Road to War in Europe
Territorial expansion of Germany
WWII Outcomes of Global Conflict
Ways WWI and WWII were similar
Ways WWI and WWII were different
International organizations set up after WWII
The Recovery of Europe
Marshall Plan