AP European History
UNIT 5 STUDY GUIDE -- “The Dual Revolution, 1789-1850”
I.
Timeline: 4 weeks
II.
Area of Emphasis: liberty and equality; the American Revolutionary Era; the French Revolution; World War and
Republican France, 1791-1799; the Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815; the Industrial Revolution; industrialization in
Continental Europe; capital and labor
III.
Chapters: 21 and 22
IV.
Key Terms: Listed below are important events, people, and terms you need to know for this unit as you outline
the chapter. Optional extra credit: create flashcards for 35 of these words. You must create flashcards for the
terms in bold print and then you may select any other terms you wish to complete the 35. You should have the
term on one side and the term’s definition as well as significance to European history on the other side. Not all
of the terms will be in your textbook. Extra credit flashcards are due the day of the unit exam. Completion of
extra credit flash cards for each unit makes you eligible for a 2% bump in your scholarship grade at the end of
the semester.
Chapter 21
Classical liberalism
 Liberty
 Equality
 Popular
sovereignty
 Natural rights
American Revolution
Marquis de Lafayette
The French Revolution
Old Regime
3rd Estate
bourgeosie
Parlements
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Abbe Sieyes
Tennis Court Oath
National Assembly
Storming the Bastille
Great Fear
Women’s March
Declaration of the Rights of
Man
Olympe de Gouge
Mary Wollstonecraft
Chapter 21 Cont.
Edmund Burke
Declaration of Pillnitz
National Convention
Girondins
Jacobins
sans-culottes
Robespierre
Reign of Terror
Levee en masse
Thermidorian Reaction
Directory
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleonic Code
Concordat of 1801
Treaty of Tilsit
Continental System
Peninsular War
Grand Army
Invasion of Russia
Chapter 22
Dual Revolution
industrialization
Factory system
Textiles
Hargreaves’s spinning jenny
Arkwright’s water frame
Cartwright’s power loom
Energy crisis of the 18th
century
James Watt
George Stephenson
Liverpool-Manchester
Railway
Crystal Palace Exposition
John Stuart Mill
Thomas Malthus
David Ricardo
Protective tariff
Zollverein
Chapter 22 Cont.
Luddites
Socialism
Friedrich Engels
proletariat
Real wages
Robert Owen
Sadler Commission
Factory Act of 1833
Sexual division of labor
Separate spheres
Patriarchal tradition
Combination Act of 1799
Grand National Consolidated
Trade Union (GNCTU)
Craft unions
Chartism
THEMATIC COURSE OUTLINE TOPICS FOR UNIT FIVE
These topics should be a guide as you read through the textbook chapters. Keep your focus on these topics as
you create your outlines and disregard information from the textbook chapters unrelated to these topics.
XVII. The French Revolution (covered in Ch. 21)
A. French social hierarchy prior to the Revolution
B. Long-term and short-term causes
C. National Assembly (1789-91)
D. The role of women
E. The Revolution and the rest of Europe
F. Legislative Assembly (1791-92)
G. National Convention, the Terror, the Directory (1792-99)
H. Napoleon Bonaparte (1799–1814)
I. Congress of Vienna and the Restoration (1814-15)
XVIII. The Industrial Revolution/Industrialization (covered in Ch. 19 & 22)
A. Roots of the Industrial Revolution
B. Conditions favorable to the Industrial Revolution in England
C. Important inventions
D. Transportation Revolution
E. Continental Europe industrializes after 1815
F. Social implications of the Industrial Revolution
1. Urbanization
2. Struggle between labor and capital
3. Working conditions
4. Economics: the “dismal science”
5. Liberal reforms to address the plight of industrial workers
6. Eventual rise in the standard of living