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His 102

Exam Three Study Guide

Chapter 20

1. What was the agricultural revolution and who did it effect the industrial revolution; what was the enclosure movement?
2. What other factors lie behind England’s industrial revolution?
3. Be able to identify the following:  James Watt; Richard Arkwright; James Hargreaves; The Crystal Palace; Robert Owen; Edwin Chadwick; the Luddites; Chartism
4. What were the social consequences of the Industrial Revolution?
5. What were the government responses to the Industrial Revolution?

Chapter 21

1. What was the Congress of Vienna and its goals
2. Know the basic characteristics of nationalism, conservatism, liberalism, utopian socialism, and Marxism (chapter 22)
3. Where were the successes and failures of the Concert of Europe, and why did they happen like they happened?
4. How did conservative politics dominate the internal politics of the European states in the early 1800s?  You should focus on the Germanic Confederation; Russia and Tsar Nicholas I; Great Britain and the Tories; France and Louis XVI & Charles X
5. What were the ideas of Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo and how did their ideas fit into the general idea of laissez-faire?
6. Who was John Stuart Mill and why is he an important figure?
7. Compare and contrast utopian socialism with Marxian socialism (You should know Marx’s take on history and his labor theory of value).
8. Assess the 1830 revolutions, especially in France and England.
9. Assess the 1848 revolutions in the German Confederation, France, and Austria.  Were they victories for liberalism or conservatism?
10. What was the Romantic movement all about?  What did it have in common with nationalism?  Who were the important figures and literature and art, and what were the important themes?

Chapter 22

11. What were the important characteristics of Napoleon III’s government?  How did he come to power and alter his power?
12. What were the causes and results of the Crimean War? 
13. What were the major events that led to the unification of Italy and Germany?  You should know important individuals such as Cavour; King Victor Emmanuel II; Giuseppe Garibaldi; King William I; Otto von Bismarck
14. What did unification of these countries mean for each as well as for Europe?
15. What were other transformations occurring in other places in Europe:  Austria; Russia; Great Britain; and the United States?
16. How did the belief that the world should be viewed realistically manifest itself in science, art, and literature during the second half of the nineteenth century – Darwinism; Pasteur and germs; Auguste Comte & scientific methodology applied to society; literary work of Flaubert, Thackeray, and Dickens; art realism in the work of Courbet & Millet; music in Wagner