AP European History
Unit Assignment for Chs. 15 – 17
Mr. Mahon
Date
Day
Class Topic
Nightly reading
10/21
Mon
In class reading
pp. 433 - 439
10/22
Tue
Social History – The Old Regime
pp. 439 – 445
10/23
Wed
Agricultural Revolution
pp. 446 - 453
10/24
Thu
BA
DBQ Reading: Industrialization
pp. 453 – 461
10/25
Fri
BB
DBQ Reading: Industrialization
pp. 453 – 461
10/28
Mon
Urban Society and Economy
pp. 462 – 468
Ch. 15 IDs and RQs are due Tuesday, October 29
10/29
Tue
Mercantilism and Colonial Trade Rivalry
pp. 469 – 473
10/30
Wed
The Transatlantic Economy
pp. 473 - 478
10/31
Thu
BB
DBQ Essay Test
pp. 478 - 481
11/1
Fri
BA
DBQ Essay Test
pp. 478 - 481
11/4
Mon
The Wars of Mid-Century
pp. 492 - 498
Ch. 16 IDs and RQs are due Tuesday, 11/5
Enlightenment: the Philosophes
pp. 498 - 504
BB
Enlightenment: Soc/Rel/Econ
pp. 504 - 511
BA
Enlightenment: Soc/Rel/Econ
pp. 504 - 511
Fri
Enlightenment: Political Thought
pp. 511 - 524
11/11
Mon
Veterans Day, NO SCHOOL
11/12
Tue
Enlightened Absolutism
11/5
Tue
11/6
Wed
11/7
Thu
11/8
Ch. 17 IDs and RQs are due Wednesday, 11/13
11/13
Wed
Enlightened Absolutism
11/14
Thurs BA
Unit Test
11/15
Fri
Unit Test
BB
pp. 524 - 528
Ch. 15 IDs and RQs
Family economy
The English Game Laws
Jethro Tull
Charles “turnip” Townshend
The enclosure movement
Cottage Industry (the “putting out system”)
James Watt
The water frame
Spinning Jenny
1. A.
B.
C.
What kinds of privileges separated European aristocracy from other social groups?
How did their privileges and influence affect other people living in the countryside?
What was the condition of serfs in central and eastern Europe?
2. A.
B.
C.
What caused the Agricultural Revolution?
How did the English aristocracy contribute to the Agricultural Revolution?
Why did peasants revolt in the 18th century?
3. A.
B.
C.
D.
How did population growth affect consumption?
What was the Industrial Revolution and what caused it?
Why did Great Britain take the lead in the Industrial Revolution?
How did consumers contribute to the Industrial Revolution?
Ch. 16 IDs and RQs
The Four Periods of European Overseas Empires
Mercantilism
Transatlantic Triangle of Trade
War of Jenkin’s Ear
The War of the Austrian Succession
The Diplomatic Revolution of 1756
The Seven Year’s War
Silesia
William Pitt, the Elder
1. A.
B.
C.
D.
What were the fundamental ideas associated with mercantile theory?
Did they work?
Which European country was most successful in establishing a mercantile
empire? Why?
Which country was least successful? Why?
2. A.
B.
C.
D.
What was the nature of slavery in the Americas?
How was it linked to the economies of the Americas, Europe, and Africa?
Why was the plantation system “unprecedented”?
How did the plantation system contribute to the inhumane treatment of slaves?
3. A.
B.
What were the results of the Seven Year’s War?
Which countries emerged in a stronger position and why?
Ch. 17 IDs and RQs
Voltaire
The Encyclopedia
Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations
Beccaria
Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws
Jean – Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract
Enlightened Absolutism
Joseph II
Catherine II
Frederick II
Partitions of Poland
1. A.
B.
C.
2. A.
B.
C.
D.
3. A.
B.
C.
D.
How did the Enlightenment change basic Western attitudes toward a) reform, b) faith,
and c) reason?
What were the major formative influences on the philosophes?
How important were Voltaire and The Encyclopedia in the success of the Enlightenment?
How did the views of the mercantilists about the earth’s resources differ from those of
Adam Smith in his book The Wealth of Nations?
Why might Smith be regarded as an advocate of the consumer?
How did his theory of history work to the detriment of the less economically advanced
non-European peoples?
How did some Enlightenment writers criticize European empires?
How did the political views of Montesquieu differ from those of Rousseau?
Was Montesquieu’s view of England accurate?
Was Rousseau a child of the Enlightenment or its enemy?
Which did Rousseau value more, the individual or society?
4. A.
B.
C.
D.
Were the enlightened monarchs true believers in the ideals of the philosophes, or was
their enlightenment a mere veneer?
Was their power really absolute?
What motivated their reforms?
What does the partition of Poland indicate about the spirit of enlightened absolutism?