Objectives
Unit 4

International Relations

1. Identify the major participants (both country and person) at the Congress of Vienna and their role in the final terms.
2. List the terms of the Congress of Vienna and discuss the alliances that grew out of this conference.
3. Distinguish between the Concert of Europe and the Congress of Vienna.
4. Determine the impact of the Congress of Vienna.


Industrial Revolution

1. Describe the development of the technological innovations that were essential to the Industrial Revolution and their interdependence upon each other.
2. Describe how the Agriculture Revolution contributed to the Industrial Revolution.
3. Identify where the Industrial Revolution began and list the factors of production and explain their importance to the process of industrialization.
4. Describe how the development of the technological innovations impacted society during the 18th and 19th centuries.
5. Describe the stages of the Industrial Revolution
6. Describe how the factory system changed working and living conditions during the Industrial Revolution.
7. Identify the elements that made mass production possible.
8. Describe the pattern known as the business cycle.
9. Identify the economic theories of Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and philosophers John Mills and Jeremy Bentham.
10. Discuss the theory of scientific socialism formulated by Karl Marx
11. Distinguish between socialism, communism, utopian socialism, modified market economy, and capitalism.
12. Discuss the reasons for population growth after the Industrial Revolution.
13. Describe the changes in life style that took place in Europe during the 1800's and how the Industrial Revolution effected these changes.
14. Summarize the contributions made to the social, physical and medical sciences during the 1800's.

Victorian Era (1800s)

1. Trace the development of reforms made in Great Britain between 1832 and 1867 and the early 1900's.
2. Describe social & political environment in Europe(world) the 19th century.
3. Identify the reasons for the French revolutions of 1848.
4. Describe the internal political problems faced by France in the late 1800'S.
5. Explain the causes of and the forces at play during the revolutions of 1848.
6. Identify the leaders of the Italian unification movement.
7. Trace the events and movements leading to Italian unification.
8. Describe the problems facing Italy after unification.
9. Discuss the major events in Germany's unification .
10 List the factors that made Germany's rapid industrialization possible.
11. Describe the government of the German Empire.
12. Summarize the social reforms adopted under Bismarck made after the unification.
13. Explain the aims of the Russian foreign policy.
14. Discuss the conditions present for revolution in Russia at the turn of the century.
15. Discuss why the Revolution of 1905 failed.
16. Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the Dual Monarchy.
17. Explain the reasons for the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

Imperialism

1. Identify the political, economic, and social motives for imperialism.
2. Outline the steps in the colonization of Africa.
A. Identify the different types of Colonial Rule.
3. Describe European competitions for control of Africa.
4. Compare the costs and benefits of imperialism for Africans.

6. Explain the purpose of the Berlin Conference and the effects on African Tribes.
7. Explain the development of the Meiji Restoration in Japan.
 

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