Download World History A Final Exam Study Guide CHAPTER 5 1. Know which

World History A
Final Exam Study Guide
CHAPTER 5
1. Know which thinker proposed the idea of
separation of powers in government.
2. Know what Enlightenment thinkers tried
to apply to the study of human behavior
and society.
3. Know from where the idea of natural law
emerged.
4. Know which Enlightenment thinker said
the job of government is to protect natural
rights.
5. Be able to identify why many
Enlightenment thinkers faced issues of
censorship.
6. Know who the government and church
officials justified their censorship.
7. Know what an “enlightened despot” was.
8. Know in which style the musical works of
Handel, Haydn and Mozart are classified.
9. B able to identify items subjected to
taxation by the Stamp Act.
10. Know how a federal republic divides
powers.
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11. Know what “bourgeoisie” is and which
groups of people made up the bourgeoisie.
12. Know which groups of people and the
percentage of the population that made up
the three estates of French society.
13. Be able to describe what effect the
national debt had on France.
14. Know how European monarchs and
nobles felt about the French Revolution.
15. Know why the revolutionaries wanted to
abolish the monarchy.
16. Be able to describe what Robespierre
believed needed to take place if France
was to achieve a “republic of virtue.”
17. Know what the Continental System was
and for what reason it was developed.
18. Know what the “scorched-earth policy”
was and how it affected the war between
France and Russia.
19. Know what the Congress of Vienna was
and what goals they attempted to achieve.
20. Know what event was the beginning of
Napoleon’s downfall.
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21. Be able to describe how life changed
during the Industrial Revolution.
22. Be able to describe the result of the
enclosure movement.
23. Know what an entrepreneur was.
24. Know what industry was the first to
develop the use of factories.
25. Be able to describe how the slave trade
contributed to the rise of industry in
Britain.
26. Know what a tenement was and from
which social class tenement dwellers
were.
27. Be able to identify several reasons most
early factory workers were women.
28. Be able to identify several long term
results of the Industrial Revolution.
29. Know who Thomas Malthus was and
about what topics he wrote and why he
discouraged vaccinations.
30. Know who Karl Marx was and what he
believed.
31. Be able to explain Karl Marx’s view of
the working class and the response to
Marxism.
32. Know what laissez-faire economists
believed was a cure for poverty.
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33. Be able would o describe what the
Concert of Europe was.
34. Know why liberals supported laissez-faire
economics and what they believed it
would bring.
35. Know which groups of people benefitted
from the Congress of Vienna decisions.
36. Be able to describe the result of the
revolutionary uprising in Belgium in the
1830s.
37. Be able to tell why Louis Philippe was
called the “citizen king.”
38. Know what resulted from the 1830 revolt
in Poland.
39. Be able to identify the effects of the
French Revolution of 1848 on Europe.
40. Know which country gained its
independence because of the efforts of
Toussaint L’Ouverture.
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41. Know who invented dynamite and be able
to cite several of its practical uses during
the industrial era.
42. Be able to identify reasons why Japan was
able to industrialize fairly quickly after
1868.
43. Know what the Bessemer process is and
be able to describe how it worked and for
what it was used.
44. Be able to describe why Russia did not
industrialize during the same time as other
European countries.
45. Be able to identify several reasons why
labor laws were passed in several
countries during the industrial age.
46. Know who developed the periodic table of
elements.
47. Know what Romanticism is and how it
responded to Enlightenment ideas.
48. Know who Paul Gauguin was and be able
to describe his works.
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49. Know what Realpolitik means and what
guided Bismarck’s implementation of it.
50. Know what happened when the Frankfurt
Assembly offered Frederick William IV
the throne.
51. Be able to identify several factors that
helped Germany to industrialize.
52. Be able to explain why Bismarck targeted
the Socialists and the Catholics.
53. Be able to describe why William II asked
Bismarck to resign.
54. Know who Guiseppe Garibaldi was and
for what he is known.
55. Know what a dual monarchy was, which
countries were involved and why it was
used.
56. Know who the Hapsburgs were and what
they were know for in Europe.
57. Be able to identify the nickname of the
Ottoman Empire.
58. Know what Russification was and which
czar implemented the program.
59. Know what a pogrom is.
60. Be able to list some of the reforms put in
place by Czar Alexander II.
61. Be able to identify the event that led to the
end of reform in 19th century Russia.
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62. Know what argument about Social
Darwinism was used by Western countries
to support imperialism.
63. Know what the Boer War was and by
what it was caused.
64. Be able to describe how Ethiopia was able
to remain independent when other African
nations were unable to maintain their
independence.
65. Know what European powers decided at
the Berlin conference.
66. Know which ruler was given the nickname
“father of modern Egypt and why he was
given that title.
67. Be able to identify what happened to the
Armenians and the group that carried out
the act.
68. Be able to identify how the British gained
control of the Suez Canal.
69. Be able to cite the main cause of the
Sepoy Rebellion and why something that
sounds so petty could lead to such a huge
problem.
70. Be able to describe how education played
a part in the growth of Indian nationalism
in the late 1800s.
71. Know what the Treaty of Nanjing was,
who benefitted from it and how they
benefitted.
72. Be able to explain what the Opium War
was and why it started.
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73. Be able to cite several results of the
Russo-Japanese War.
74. Be able to describe what the “March First
Movement” was.
75. Be able to describe what helped Japan
modernize during the Meiji period.
76. Be able to identify the features of the new
Japanese government after it was
reformed by the Meiji.
77. Be able to identify complaints the
Filipinos had about Spanish rule in the late
1800s.
78. Be able to describe why the Filipinos were
disappointed at the end of the Spanish
American War.
79. Know what the “Act of Union” was and
be able to cite some of the results of that
act.
80. Know what major political reform was
initially introduced in Australia.
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81. Be able to identify the specific event that
caused Great Britain to enter into the
Great War.
82. Be able to identify the countries that made
up the Triple Alliance.
83. Be able to identify the countries that made
up the Triple Entente.
84. Be able to cite several ways in which
nationalism increased tensions in Europe
before the war broke out.
85. Know what the Schlieffen Plan was and
for what it was designed.
86. Be able to describe why the Schlieffen
Plan failed.
87. Be able to describe why a stalemate
developed along the Western Front.
88. Be able to describe why the Ottoman
Empire was considered to be a valuable
ally.
89. Be able to describe the Zimmerman note,
to whom it was sent and what it was
asking and what it was promising.
90. Be able to identify several factors that led
to the United States’ entry into the war.
91. Be able to explain why the Allies
welcomed the overthrow of the Russian
Czar.
92. Be able to describe why Irish Americans
were opposed to the US entering WWI on
the side of the Allies.
93. Be able to describe what the general focus
was of the Treaty of Versailles.
94. Know which groups made up the “White”
armies.
95. Be able to describe why Lenin changed
some of the Marxist ideas to align with
Russian conditions.