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FINAL EXAMS
Periods 6, 5, 0 Wednesday January 21st
Periods 1, 2 Thursday January 22nd
Periods 3, 4 Friday, January 23rd

Study Guide is attached

IDs (choose five - up to three for extra credit):
1)Aristotle, 2)Martin Luther, 3)Oliver Cromwell, 4)Glorious Revolution, 5)John Locke, 6) Mary Wollstonecraft, 7)Napoleon Bonaparte 8) Otto von Bismarck 9) Enclosure Movement, 10) Opium Wars

Essays: (Choose two) - 6 through 10 will be posted nest week. Please outline at least one esssay for Tuesday.

1) Compare and contrast Athenian (Greek) democracy to the form of democracy that we have in the United States today. Please state the similarities and differences between our government and their government.

2) What were some of the legacies left to Western society by the Roman Empire? Include Political, legal, architectural, and everyday ideas that we use today.

3) Explain the reasons the English Civil War was fought, the two periods that followed the end of the war and explain how all of these events led to England’s Glorious Revolution and what occurred during this “revolution”.

4) How did the Enlightenment influence the US Constitution and the US Bill of Rights?

5) Explain either the unification of Italy or Germany.

6) Explain the six different social steps in Latin American society. Make sure you discuss each step in order, what their racial make-up was and the positions they held in Latin American society.

7) Explain the difference between Communism and Capitalism. Make sure to give examples of each system and also mention who is considered the "father" of each system and what famous publication they wrote.

8) Explain why Britain and the United States were the first nations to industrialize. Be sure to explain what the factors of production are and how Britain & the US were both similar and different in their paths to industrialization.

9) Explain the scramble for Africa. Include why Europeans wanted Africa and how it was divided.

10) What is imperialism? Why does it happen, how does it happen, how is it justified, and what are the various forms of imperialism and methods of control? Be sure to include at least one example of imperialism.

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#59 Guided Reading 12:2

Japan notes are attached

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#58 US Economic Imperialism (1-6 due Wed 7-9 & B due Thursday)

Attached are US Imperialism Notes and Canal Building Notes

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Quiz: Imperialism

- Forms & methods of Imperialism (Chp 11, Sec 2)
- Scramble for Africa (Chp 11, Sec 1)
- Resistance to Imperialism (Chp 11, Sec 2)
- British Imperialism in India (Chp 11, Sec 4)
- Imperialism in SE Asia (Chp 11, Sec 5)
- Imperialism in China & Opium Wars (Chp 12, Sec 1)

IDs: Sepoy Rebellion/Mutiny, Opium Wars, Berlin Conference, Imperialism

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#57 King Mongkut of Siam

Notes on SE Asian Imperialism are attached

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#56 The Opium Wars

China notes attached

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#55 Reading Guide: Imperialism Case Study - Nigeria

Imperialism in India notes are attached

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#54 Menelik II (reading & questions)

South Africa timeline is attached

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#53 Guided Reading 11:1 (Ques 1-3 due on Tuesday) (Ques 4-6 & B due Wednesday)

Monday & Tuesday notes are attached

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#52 Industrial Revolution Inventions Project

Instructions are attached

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Unit 6 Test - The Industrial Revolution

-Start of Industrial Revolution in Britain (Chapter 9, Sec 1)
-Life During Industrialization (Chapter 9, Sec 2)
-Industrialization Spreads US/Europe (Chapter 9, Sec 3)
-Inventions during Industrial Revolution (Chapter 10, Sec 4)
-Reforming the Industrial World (Chapter 9, Sec 4)

IDs: John Stuart Mill, Enclosure Movement, James Watt, Robert Owen, Thomas Edison

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Explain the difference between Communism and Capitalism. Make sure to give examples of each system and also mention who is considered the "father" of each system and what famous publication they wrote.

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Explain why Britain and the United States were the first nations to industrialize. Be sure to explain what the factors of production are and how Britain & the US were both similar and different in their paths to industrialization.

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#51 Chapter 9 Review Sheet (attached)

Wednesday's notes are attached

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#50 Economy Worksheet. Front: Read the description and decide if it fits capitalism or communism. Back: Draw a picture describing capitalism (top) and communism (bottom)

Worksheet & notes are attached.

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#49 Reading Guide: Reforming the Industrial World

Monday's notes are attached

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#48 History Makers: James Watt (reading/questions)

Inventors Notes are attached

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#47 Elizabeth Bentley Parliament Testimony (Top half diary entry from the perspective of a child living during the industrial revolution , bottom half is 5 questions you would have asked Bentley if you were a Member of Parliament)

Life During Industrialization Notes are attached

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#46 Reading Guide: Industrialization Spreads (#1 due Wed #2-4 + chart due Thu)
- Make sure your US/British Industrialization Venn Diagram is complete

US Industrialization notes + venn diagram are attached

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Part Two - Cloze Activity. Use your textbook to fill in the blanks. Worksheet and today's notes are attached.

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#45 Guided Reading 9:1 (parts A & B)

British Industrialization notes are attached

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Unit 5 Test: Nationalism (Chapter 8)
-Latin American Revolutions (Haiti/St. Domingue, S. America, Mexico, Brazil) - Chp 8, Sec 1
-Nationalism in Europe (Idea of Nationalism and how it caused the decline of Austria, Ottomans, Russia) plus Louis-Napoleon in France Chp 8, Sec 2
-Unification of Italy & Germany Chp 8, Sec 3
-Romanticism Chp 8, Sec 4

IDs: Camillo Di Cavour, Simón Bolívar, Otto Von Bismarck, Toussaint L’Oveuture, Napoleon III (Choose Two)

Short Essay: (Choose One)

Explain the concept of Nationalism and what is needed to form a nation-state. In your short essay, be sure to discuss how Nationalism weakened at least one empire and how it unified at least one country.

Explain either the unification of Italy or Germany.

Explain the six different social steps in Latin American society. Make sure you discuss each step in order, what their racial make-up was and the positions they held in Latin American society.

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#44 History Makers: Beethoven (reading & questions)

Attached are Romanticism notes

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#43 Guided Reading 8:3 1-6 (due Tuesday) 7-9 (due Wednesday)

European Nationalism Notes (11/24-26 and 12/1-2) are attached

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#42 Guided Reading 8:2 (1-4 & B due on Tuesday, 5-8 due on Wednesday)

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Make sure your chart is complete by Monday. You can download the chart below but you must WRITE in your information on the table you were given in class. Also attached are the notes for the entire week (all Latin American Revolutions) and what your map should look like is also attached.

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You need to have 3-5 key facts about the Latin American leader you read about in class. Put your facts in the "KEY FACTS" column of the table. If you run out of room put any remaining facts in the "KEY DATES" column.

Attached are the documents (each leader) and the table

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#41 Chapter 7 Review Sheet (Congress of Vienna notes are attached)

Study for Quiz

- Reign of Terror (Chp 7, Sec 2)
- Napoloeon (Chp 7, Sec 3 & 4)
- Congress of Vienna (Chp 7, Sec 5)

IDs: Robespierre, Scorched-Earth Policy, Napoleon, Congress of Vienna

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#40 Guided Reading 7:4 (backside - Napoleon's Empire Collapses)

Three days of Napoleon notes are attached

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#38 Reading Guide: Napoleon Forges an Empire (period 6 due Monday)

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#39 Guided Reading 7:3. Part A- List the Napoleon's goals (why he wanted to do what is listed) and the result of what is listed

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#37 Gulliotine Homework (page 225)

1. Who was the guillotine named after and how did they justify the machine?
2. What group in France was executed the most?
3. When was the guillotine first introduced in France and how did crowds react to it?
4. What did many doctors believe happened after the execution?
5. Do you feel the guillotine is cruel and unusual punishment? Why/why not?

Reign of Terror Notes attached

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Midterm Exam
Format: 50 multiple choice questions, 5 map & document-based fill in the blanks, 5 reverse IDs, 3 extra-credit reverse IDs.

Unit 1 Foundations of Democracy
-Greeks & Romans: Prolouge Section 1
-Religion & Democracy: Prologue Section 2
-Magna Carta: Prologue pgs 18-20
-Reformation: Chapter 1 Sections 3 & 4

Unit 2 Absolute Monrachs
-English Civil War: Chapter 5, Section 5
-Absolutism in Spain: Chapter 5, Section 1
-Reign of King Louis XIV: Chapter 5, Section 2
-Hapsburgs of Central Europe: Chapter 5, Section 3

Unit 3: Enlightenment & American Revolution
-Pre-enlightenment: Atlantic Slace Trade: Chapter 4, Sec 3
-Pre-enlightenment: Conquest of Mexico pages 120-122
-Scientific Revolution: Chapter 6, Sec 1
-The Enlightenment: Chapter 6, Sec 2 & 3
-The American Revolution: Chapter 6, Sec 4

Unit 4: The French Revolution
-Reign of Louis XVI & the Start of Revolution: Chapter 7, Sec 1

- Study your maps & political cartoon

- Reverse IDs: I will give you the definition & significance you will write the term. there will be 5 reverse IDs and 3 extra credit reverse IDs.
Possible terms: Plato, Aristotle, Magna Carta, King Henry VIII, Martin Luther, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Glorious Revolution, Phillip II, Louis XIV, Geocentric Theory, Heliocentric Theory, Isaac Newton, Enlightened Despot, John Locke, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Cesare Beccaria, Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence.

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#36 French Revolution Document Packet

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#35 Reading Guide: The French Revolution Begins (#1 & 2 due Wednesday) (#3, #4, and front cause/effect chart due Thursday)

Tuesday/Wednesday notes are attached

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#34 American Revolution Reteaching Activity (fill out true or false - if false state why it is false)

Complete the join or die political cartoon if you didn't finish it in class.

Today's notes are attached.

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#33 Declaration of Independence (read & answer questions)

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#32 Enlightenment Essay
Which three Enlightenment thinkers had a significant impact on American democracy? Please explain why.

Fill out your details on the outline worksheet (attached). Outline is due Wednesday.
Final Draft is due Friday

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Break-up letter between American Colonies and King George/Parliament should be complete and you will share info from your letter during the warm-up.

#31 Guided Reading 6:4

American revolution notes are attached

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Quiz - Slave Trade, Conquest of Mexico, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment

IDs: John Locke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Voltaire, Cesare Beccaria

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#29 Guided Reading 6:2 - Questions 1 & 2 due Friday, Questions 3 & 4 due Monday, Questions 5 & B due Tuesday.


Enlightenment Notes Attached

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#30 A Vindication of the Rights of Women

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#28 Guided Reading 6:1

Scientific Revolution notes are attached

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#26 Group Work: Primary Source Document Worksheet - The Broken Spears (Due in class Monday)

#27 Temple Massacre: Picture Analysis (Due Tuesday)

Attached are #27, Conquest of Mexico notes & Broken Spears jigsaw (that was completed in class)

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#25 Equiano's Story & Roots Video Questions

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#24 RG: Atlantic Slave Trade

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#22 Reading Guide: Louis XIV
#23 Photo Analysis: Monarchs in FRance

Unit 2 Test: Absolutism

English Civil War/Protectorate/Restoration/Glorious Revolution (Chp 5, Sec 5)
Absolutism in Spain - Phillip II (Chp 5, Sec 1)
Central European Monarchs Clash - Hapsburgs (Chp 5, Sec 3)
Absolute Rulers of Russia - Peter the Great (Chp 5, Sec 4)
Absolute Rulers of France - Richelieu/Louis XIV (Chp 5, Sec 2)

IDs: King Phillip II, Louis XIV, The Seven Years War, The Thirty Years War, Peter the Great

Short Essay Questions:
Explain the reasons the English Civil War was fought, the two periods that followed the end of the war and how all of these events led to England’s Glorious Revolution.

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What is an Absolute Monarch? Describe all of the general characteristics of an Absolute Monarch. Then in your short essay, choose two of the monarchs that we studied from England, Spain, France, Austria, Prussia, or Russia and describe how that person ruled and the various conflicts or problems that arose due to their rule.

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#21 Absolute Rulers of Russia

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#20 Guided Reading Chapter 5, Section 3: Central European Monarchs Clash

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#18 Venn Diagram English Bill of Rights vs. US Bill of Rights. Use your copy of the US Bill of Rights (or look at assigment #10's attachment) and draw a venn diagram comparing England's Bill of Rights (handed out in class) and the US Bill of Rights


QUIZ - ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

James I - Glorious Revolution (Chapter 5, Section 5)

IDs: Divine Right, King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Glorious Revolution

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#19 Spain's Empire & Absolutism

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#17 William of Orange reading & questions

Attached are Glorious Revolution Notes

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#15 English Civil War Playing Card

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#16 Guided Reading 5:5

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Weekly Reading: Chapter 5, Section 5
Attached are Monday & Tuesday's notes

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If you didn't finish your pair-share questions the documents are attached below and finish the questions by Thursday

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#14 Cromwell Video Questions

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Class notes on Counter Reformation & Henry VIII are attached
Unit One Test

Multiple choice covers: Democracy & government, Ancient Athens/Greece, the Roman Empire, Religion & Democracy, the Magna Carta and the Reformation.
Textbook: Prologue Section 1, Pgs 12-15, 18-20, 50-51, and Chapter 1 Sections 3 & 4

IDs (state definition & significance): Answer two - two more for extra credit)
Aristotle, Martin Luther, Magna Carta, Twelve Tables, Henry VIII


Short Answer Essay (1/2 page essay): Answer one of two:
Compare and contrast Athenian (Greek) democracy to the form of democracy that we have in the United States today. Please state ideas that we use today from the Greeks and also major differences between our government and their government.

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What were some of the legacies left to Western society by the Roman Empire? Include Political, legal, architectural, and everyday ideas that we use today.

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Reformation Project - See attached file for instructions.

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#11 Guided Reading: Chapter One, Section 3

Please Read the section above and answer the causes/effects for each of the events listed. Also don't forget section "B" and define the terms listed.

Reformation notes are attached

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#10 Magna Carta vs. US Bill of Rights Venn Diagram. Compare these two documents using a venn diagram - only applies to Magna Carta in one circle, only applies to Bill of rights in the other circle, similarities where the circles overlap.

Use your Magna Carta jigsaw & the Bill of Rights that I gave out in class. Both are also attached.

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Study for Quiz

- What is Democracy
- What is Government
- Ancient Greece/Athens (Solon, Cleisthenes, Pericles, Direct Democracy)
- Greek Philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle)
- Roman Republic
- Religion and Democracy

IDs: Solon, Cleisthenes, Plato's Republic, Representative Democracy, Justinian Code

HW: Ten Commandments Prmary Source Analysis

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#8 Justinian I (read and answer questions)

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#7 Legacy of Ancient Greece & Rome (answer #3 & 4 only - fill out the rest of the graphic organizer)

Please make sure your Rome textbook questions are complete. Keep them in your notes. The questions/answers are attached below.

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#6 Plato's Republic

Make sure you have read pages 5-9

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# 5 Create a Government (was finished in class today)

HW: Page 9 - Juries in Athens

Answer the following questions in your NOTES:

A. How big were juries in Athens?
B. How was a jury selected?
C. What was the difference between a hollow and solid disk?
D. Answer Question #1 on page 9
E. Answer Question #2 on page 9

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#4 What is a democracy? Determine which description fits a democracy and which does not. If a non-democracy please list why type of government it is. use your notes to help answer the questions (notes & assignment are attached below).

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#2 Previewing Your History Textbook (please finish this if you didn't finish in class)

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#3 Democracy Map (use the prologue section of the book [pg 2] - use main ideas, timeline, and reading to answer the significance part of the activity)

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