WHAP REVIEW: Unit 5
Review Before You Review! Know the REQUISITE SKILLZ
Unit 5: The Industrial Era, c.1750 to 1900 CE
- Historical Thinking Skills: A Refresher
- we are going to need all of these in our bag for the test, look it over
- WHAP Course Themes
- (S) Social Interactions - The process by which societies group their members and the norms that govern the interactions between these groups and between individuals influence political, economic, and cultural institutions and organizations.
- (P) Governance - A variety of internal and external factors contribute to state formation expansion, and decline. Governments maintain order through a variety of administrative institutions, policies, and procedures, and governments obtain, retain, and exercise power in different ways and for different purposes.
- (I) Humans & The Environment - The environment shapes human societies, and as populations grow and change, these populations in turn shape their environments.
- (C) Cultural Developments & Interactions - The development of ideas, beliefs, and religions illustrates how groups in society view themselves, and the interactions of societies and their beliefs often have political, social and cultural implications.
- (E) Economic Systems - As societies develop, they affect and are affected by the ways that they produce, exchange, and consume goods and services.
- (T) Technology & Innovation - Human adaption and innovation have resulted in increased efficiency, comfort, and security & technological advances have shaped human development and interactions with both intended & unintended consequences.
Unit 5: The Industrial Era, c.1750 to 1900 CE
- College Board Unit 5 Standards - a MUST read before starting your review
- Standard-Specific Content Review Lesson Links
- 5.1 The Enlightenment
- Learning Objective: CUL Explain the intellectual and ideological context in which revolutions swept the Atlantic world from 1750 to 1900.
- Required Knowledge:
- Enlightenment new ways examine nature and people
- Challenge public religion, emphasize reason
- New political ideas incl natural rights and social contract
- Leads to questioning tradition
- Learning Objective: SOC Explain how the Enlightenment affected societies over time.
- Required Knowledge:
- Expansion rights: incr suffrage, abolitionism, end serfdom
- Emerging feminism and women’s suffrage demands
- Suggestions:
- Women: Wollstonecraft, Olympe de Gouges, or Seneca Falls Convention
- Review Lessons:
- 5.2 Nationalism and Revolutions in the Period from 1750 to 1900
- Learning Objective: GOV Explain causes and effects of the various revolutions in the period from 1750 to 1900.
- Required Knowledge:
- Unity based language, religion, social custom, territory
- Revolutions = new nation-states
- Discontent with monarchs = democracy and 19th-century liberalism
- American colonies: U.S. (inspire others), Haiti, Latin American
- Enlightenment influence in Declaration of Independence, French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, and Bolivar’s Jamaica Letter
- Nationalism challenges borders or seek unify territories
- Suggestions:
- Nationalism:
- Propaganda Movement in Philippines
- Maori & New Zealand wars
- Puerto Rico: Lola Rodríguez de Tió
- German and Italian unifications
- Balkan nationalism
- Review Lessons:
- 5.3 Industrial Revolution Begins
- Learning Objective: ENV Explain how environmental factors contributed to industrialization from 1750 to 1900.
- Required Knowledge:
- Causes:
- Proximity to waterways; access to rivers and canals
- Geographical distribution of coal, iron, and timber
- Urbanization
- Improved agricultural productivity
- Legal protection of private property
- Access to foreign resources
- Accumulation of capital
- Factory system = specialization labor
- Causes:
- Review Lessons:
- 5.4 Industrialization Spreads in the Period from 1750 to 1900
- Learning Objective: TECH Explain how different modes and locations of production have developed and changed over time
- Required Knowledge:
- Steam industry = growth Europe/US, decline Asia and Middle East
- Diffusion from NW Europe to US, Russia, Japan and to other parts Europe
- Suggestions:
- Decline: shipbuilding India/SE Asia, iron in India, textiles in India and Egypt
- Review Lessons:
- 5.5 Technology of the Industrial Age
- Learning Objective: TECH Explain how technology shaped economic production over time.
- Required Knowledge:
- Fossil Fuel revolution= coal, oil, steam engine, internal combustion engine
- 2nd Industrial Revolution: steel, chemicals, electricity and precision machinery
- Railroads, steam ships, telegraph incr communication, exploration, and development = more trade + migration
- Review Lessons:
- 5.6 Industrialization: Government’s Role from 1750 to 1900
- Learning Objective: GOV Explain the causes and effects of economic strategies of different states and empires.
- Required Knowledge:
- Some states try to sponsor Industrial Rev
- Meiji Restoration and industrialization
- Suggestion:
- States: Muhammad Ali’s cotton textiles in Egypt
- Review Lessons:
- 5.7 Economic Developments and Innovations in the Industrial Age
- Learning Objective: ECON Explain the development of economic systems, ideologies, and institutions and how they contributed to change in the period from 1750 to 1900.
- Required Knowledge:
- European shift towards Adam Smith’s laissez-faire capitalism and free markets
- Global trade = transnational businesses relying on new banking
- Increased standards living for some, improved manufacturing, = more & cheaper consumer goods
- Suggestion:
- Transnational business: HSBC, Dutch-British Unilever in British West Africa and the Belgian Congo
- Finance: stock markets, LLCs
- Review Lessons:
- 5.8 Reactions to the Industrial Economy from 1750 to 1900
- Learning Objective: SOC Explain the causes and effects of calls for changes in industrial societies from 1750 to 1900. Required Knowledge:
- Responses include govt, orgs, and individuals try political, social, educational and urban reforms
- Labor unions and parties: improve working conditions, hours, wages
- Socialism, Communism, Marx
- Ottoman, Qing & others in Asia/Africa try to modernize but meet elite resistance
- Review Lessons:
- Learning Objective: SOC Explain the causes and effects of calls for changes in industrial societies from 1750 to 1900. Required Knowledge:
- 5.9 Society and the Industrial Age
- Learning Objective: SOC Explain how industrialization caused change in existing social hierarchies and standards of living.
- Required Knowledge:
- New classes incl middle class & industrial working class
- Poor women and children work, middle-class more restricted to home
- Urbanization cause: pollution, poverty, crime, public health crises, housing shortage, lack infrastructure
- Review Lessons:
- 5.10 Continuity and Change in the Industrial Age
- Learning Objective: Explain the extent to which industrialization brought changes from 1750 to 1900.
- Review Lessons:
- 5.1 The Enlightenment
- Whole-Unit Content Review Lesson Links
- Stephanie Gorges - Unit 5 Review
- Jim Rhodes - Unit 5 Overview
- Freemanpedia - Unit 5 Review
- AP Test Information and DBQ Writing Skillz
- Other Resources:
- Strayer chapter outlines
- Strayer chapter note cards
- Shererhistory.com (you're on it!)
- Freemanpedia
- Khan Academy
- World History Connections
- Crash Course
- Crash Course World History
- Crash Course European History
- Crash Course American History
- Crash Course World History 2.0
- really cool thematic approach; topics like war, disease, migration, etc.
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