Reading Assignments:
For each reading complete the terms by using the acronym IBAD (IDENTIFY, what happened BEFORE, what happened
AFTER , and what happened DURING), also complete the Reading Activities. Along with the Terms and Reading
Activities, come with TWO QUESTIONS to discuss during the lecture.
The Atlantic System
Pages 665-676
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consumer society
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slavery
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buccaneers
Java
calico
consumer revolution
Reading Activities:
1. Explain the reasons for the decline in the death rate from 1600 to 1750.
2. Analyze the correlation between consumerism and slavery during the age of the Atlantic System.
New Social Patterns
Pages 676-683
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agricultural revolution
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The Spectator
rococo
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Novel
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Pietism
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13. Jansenists
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1. Analyze the social and cultural consequences of the agricultural revolution.
2. Describe and analyze the signs of social distinction between the classes.
Consolidation of the European State
Pages 683-695
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War of the Spanish Succession
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Sir Robert Walpole
Bank of England
Peter I
Westernization of Russia
Table of Ranks
Great Northern War
Frederick William I
War of the Polish Succession
secret diplomacy
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Edward Jenner
Reading Activities:
1. Explain how William Petty’s works brought about changes in Public Hygiene and Health Care.
2. Analyze the role of the Irish in Constitutional England.
Enlightenment
Pages 695-721
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Immanuel Kant
Encyclopedia
Salons
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Moses Mendelssohn
romanticism
Goethe
Great Awakening
Hasidim
Methodism
Reading Activities:
1. Explain the major issues in the early decades of the Enlightenment.
2. Analyze the role of women in the Enlightenment.
3. Explain why France was the center of the Enlightenment.
Society and Culture
Pages 722-743
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War of the Austrian Succession
Diplomatic Revolution
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civil service
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Pugachev Rebellion
The Wilkes affair
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1. Analyze and explain the reasons for the limits despots put on reforms.
2. Explain the rise of public opinion as a factor in politics in the 1700s.
Revolution
Pages 747-763
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Atlantic Revolutions
Dutch Patriots
Free Corps
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King Poniatowski
Financial Crisis in France
Louis XVI
Marie-Antoinette
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Abbe Sieyes
National Assembly
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Jacques Necker
Bastille
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
Olympe de Gouge
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The Constitution
Civil Constitution of the Clergy
Brunswick Manifesto
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September Massacres
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The Mountain
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1. Explain the reasons the Revolution turned radical after 1789.
2. Analyze the rise of so many different revolutionary groups during the French Revolution.
Terror
Pages 763-783
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Danton
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The Directory
War with Austria
Gustavus III
Edmund Burke
Kosciuszko
Toussaint L’Ouverture
First Consul
Reading Activities:
1. What factors can explain the Terror?
2. To what extent was the Terror simply a response to a national emergency or a reflection of deeper problems
within the Revolution?
3. Which aspect of the French Revolution most disturbed the commentators?( see Pages 774-776)
Napoleon
Pages 787-805
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French Colonial Reforms
Confederation of the Rhine
Continental System
Nationalism
Invasion of Russia
The end for Napoleon
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1. Outline or timeline Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power in France. From consul to consul for life.
2. Why was Napoleon a successful military leader?
“Restoration” of Europe
Pages 805-819
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Congress of Vienna
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Robert Castlereagh
Charles Talleyrand
Conservatism
Edmund Burke
Religious revival
Industrial Revolution
Working class
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Railroad
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Jeremy Bentham
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Robert Owen
Henri Saint-Simon
Charles Fourier
Nationalism
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Lord Byron
William Wordsworth
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Caspar David Friedrich
Joseph Turner
Beethoven
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1. Diagram the structure of the new French Government.
2. What ‘old regime’ policies did the congress bring back?
Challenges of Conservative Order
Pages 819-826
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Greek Independence
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Belgian Independence
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Reform Bill 1832
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Industrialization, Urbanization, Revolt
Pages 829-840
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1. Opium
2. Urbanization
3. Factory Act of 1833
4. Epidemics
Reading Activities
1. Diagram the spread of Industrialization throughout Europe.
2. Why were cities seen as dangerous?
Reforming Social Order
Pages 840-858
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Charlotte Bronte
George Sand
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Horace Mann
Temperance
Domesticity
Imperialism
Opium Wars
Guiseppe Mazzzini
Zollverein
Corn Laws
Lajos Kossuth
Flora Tristan
Louis Blanc
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Communism
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engles
Chartism
Alexander Dumas
Chopin
Charles Lyell
Reading Activities
1. Why did ideologies have such a powerful appeal in the 1830s and 1840s?
2. Diagram communism and its influence.
Revolutions of 1848
Pages 858-870
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Hungry Forties
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Guiseppi Garibaldi
Frederick William IV
Crystal Palace
Reading Activities
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Describe Europe after 1848.