1. Global 10 Midterm Review

2. Part 1 – 49 multiple choice questions
General social studies/9th Grade (3-6)
Absolutism & English Civil War (3-6)
Scientific Rev. & Enlightenment (2-4)
French Rev. and its impacts (8-12)
Industrial Rev. and its impacts (7-9)
Nationalism (2-4)
Causes and impacts of Imperialism (10-15)

3. Part 2 - DBQ 9 Documents on three different concepts/people/events
They are somehow related
14 scaffolding questions based on the documents
DBQ essay will focus on 2 of the 3 concepts/people/events
Must reference specific info from 4 to 5 documents
Must include outside information
Must be coherent and well organized (and written in pen)

4. Example…

5. Key Themes

6. Protestant Reformation
Causes and impacts
Upset at RC Church for selling indulgence and being “too worldly” and corrupt
Led to a significant decline in power of the RC Church
Significance of Martin Luther
Wrote 95 Theses
Challenged the RC Church’s power
Followers called themselves Protestants/Lutherans

7. Age of Absolutism Goals of Absolute Monarchs
To centralize and strengthen their power
Divine Right and its impact
Louis XIV of France
“Sun King”, palace of Versailles, persecuted Protestants because he could
Peter the Great of Russia
Modernized/Westernized (be able to provide specifics), Expanded Russian borders, navy and military, wanted access to a warm-water port

8. Responses to Absolutism
The English Civil War
Causes (Who should have more power, Monarch or Parliament?)
Cavaliers vs. Roundheads
Results (Leads to English Bill of Rights and Limited Monarchy)
Parliament becomes more powerful than England’s monarch
Rights for commoners increase (Habeas Corpus, voting increases)
Ideas of John Locke
Government should have limited power and come from the people (consent of the governed)

9. Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment
Use of observation and reason
Questioned long held beliefs
Ex: heliocentric theory
Copernicus, Galileo, Newton
Scientific Method, inspired Enlightenment thinkers
Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire
Questioned Church and State
Stressed the importance of reason

10. The French Revolution Causes Impacts Key people Key events
BEAT, Louis 16th & Marie Antoinette
Impacts
Democracy & Natural Rights win!
Latin American independence begins
Key people
Louis XVI, Robespierre, Napoleon, etc.
Key events
Estates General, Storming the Bastille, Reign of Terror, Napoleonic Wars, Congress of Vienna, etc.

11. Latin American Independence Movements
Key people
Simon Bolivar, Toussaint L’Ouverture
Causes
French Rev. inspired men like L’Ouverture
Spain’s power was in decline
Creoles wanted more say in their country
Disliked the peninsulares
Effects
Haitian revolution
All of Latin America eventually gains independence

13. Industrial Revolution
Why did it start in Great Britain?
Ample coal/iron, good rivers/harbors, large labor force, strong economy
Causes
Agricultural Revolution’s impact
Importance of laissez-faire and capitalism
Adam Smith
Free Market leads to innovation

14. Industrial Revolution
Problems of early industrialization
Overcrowding in cities, poor working/living conditions
Impacts
On transportation (steam engine)
On products (better quality and lower prices)
Population shift (more people now live in cities = urbanization)
On workers (labor unions)
Karl Marx and the emergence of socialism
Communist Manifesto (workers should overthrow the capitalists)
Leads to industrialized nations beginning to imperialize

15. Irish Potato Famine Nationalism Unification of Germany
Otto von Bismarck
Breakup of the Ottoman Empire
Balkan “powder keg” (many conflicting ethnic groups all want self-rule)

16. Imperialism Causes White Man’s Burden
Industrialized nations of Europe wanted more raw materials and new markets to sell products
White Man’s Burden
Used to justify imperialism
Similarities to mercantilism and colonialism
Mercantilism=mother country=materials/markets

17. African Imperialism Berlin Conference Boer War Zulu Resistance
Led to the division of Africa by Europeans
Boer War
Led to British control of southern Africa
Zulu Resistance
Failed due to “western advantage”
Impacts on Africa
Africa ruined by imperialism (go w/the negative answer)

18. Indian Imperialism British East India Company
Set up system to ship cotton to Britain and finished products to India
Sepoy Mutiny (causes and effects)
Impacts on India
India adopts several British ideas, better transportation & communication systems
Gandhi’s nationalist/independence movement
Methods, goals, problems
Partition of India

19. Chinese Imperialism Opium War causes and effects
Britain wanted to trade something besides silver for Chinese tea
Chinese resisted but lost due to lack of modern military technology
Treaty of Nanjing
Boxer Rebellion causes and effects
Spheres of Influence

20. Japan’s Meiji Restoration
Japan wanted to compete w/European powers and avoid China’s fate
M – modernize
E – improve the economy
I – industrialize
J – Japan
I – imperialize due to lack of natural resources

21. Good Luck! 