Review Sheet for History 102, Examination #2
Dr. Michael Lewis
Complete Study Guide
Part I: Be prepared to provide several sentences explaining (a) what this thing is/who this person is, (b) approximately when it happened/lived, (c) where (d) why it is important/historically significant.
Friedrich
Engels
Reign of Terror
Haiti
Philosophes
U.S. Revolution
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Declaration of the Rights of Women Third Estate Committee for Public Safety
Robespierre
Simon Bolivar Jose
de San Martin
Artistic Realism Napoleon Bonaparte Beethoven
Louisiana Purchase Cholera Urbanization
Concert
of Europe
James Watt’s Steam Engines
Battle of Waterloo
British
Textile Industry
Utopian Socialism
Romanticism
Anarchism Jean-Jacques Dessalines Touissant L'Ouverture
American Anti-Imperialism League Wilhelm II Dadabhai Naoroji
Nationalism
Conservatism East India
Company
Karl
Marx
Liberalism
Chadwick Report
Lord
Cornwallis
Aurangzeb
Battle of Plassey
First
War of Indian Independence “White
Man’s Burden”
Henry Stanley
Sokoto
Caliphate International
Berlin Conference on Africa
King Leopold II
Social
Darwinism
Khartoum
Open Door Policy
Lord
George Macartney
Opium War
Lin Zexu (Lin Tse-Hsu)
Muhammed
Ali
Suez Canal
Ismail
George Washington William E. D. Morel Roger Casement
Omdurman
Foot Binding
Philippines
Part
II: Be prepared to answer these
questions as a fully developed essay, with paragraphs, a thesis, and detailed
historical evidence to prove your argument. In every one of these essays I
expect for you to use evidence from King Leopold’s Ghost.
We
have spoken of two primary types of “Freedom” introduced during this time
period: the political freedom espoused by the Enlightenment and the (somewhat)
global growth of democracy, and the increasing freedom from hunger, want, and
brutalized labor resulting from the agricultural and industrial revolutions.
Describe how these two changes occurred, and their benefits and
shortcomings. Who was benefiting
from these changes? Who was not?
Explain
the rise of industrialism – why did it happen when and where it did? – and
then the rise of social protests against industrial society (including reformers
and revolutionaries). How did these
twin processes of industrialization and social reaction transform industrial
nations?
There
were three distinct types of “slavery” during this time period:
the literal African slave trade, the figurative slavery of the industrial
poor in Europe and the U.S., and the societal slavery of imperialism.
Compare and contrast these three systems. Were they linked at all? Taken
together, what do they tell us about the culture and values of the Western world
during this period? Use specific
examples, not mere generalizations.
Using
Leopold and Morel as your starting place, how should we understand the impact of
the West (including Europe and the U.S.) on the world during the period from
1700-1900? Ultimately, were
the Western civilizations a force for good or evil in this period – for
freedom or slavery? Explain your position carefully, using evidence from both
sides while constructing your argument. Be
sure to consider the impact of the Enlightenment, of the US and French
Revolutions (and Democracy), of the Industrial Revolution, and of Imperialism.
Discuss
the ways in which the Industrial Revolution and Imperialism were linked between
1700 and 1900. Could you argue that
the roots of the Industrial Revolution were connected with imperialism? Is there
a common way of seeing human rights? Of
seeing Europeans versus the people of the rest of the world? How did these two
things reinforce each other? And
how do you reconcile the stories of exploitation (of the working poor, and of
colonized nations) with philosophies of political freedom and human rights in
Europe?
What
can you explain of the history of the period 1700-1900 through an analysis of
the custom and content of British High Tea (the formal tea served at 4:00 pm)? I
would encourage creativity here – how much can you include?