Chapter 17: Take Home Test; Due Date Changed to 1/10/2011

Take Home Test Chapter 17: The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, & Colonial Rebellion
All work must be HANDWRITTEN & submitted in class on January 10, 2011
Part 1: Read handout “Excerpts from Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, 1776” & answer questions (1-7) that follow.
Part 2: Answer review questions 1-6 on pp. 578 & 579 (Kagan) in complete sentences using support from the readings.
Part 3: Define & explain the significance of the following:
Mercantilism
Casa de Contratacion (House of Trade)
William Pitt
John Wilkes
Yorkshire Association Movement
The Seven Years War
Diplomatic Revolution of 1756
Triangle trade
Intolerable Acts
Stamp Act
Part 4: Answer each of the following questions in 5-7 complete sentences using evidence from your readings for support:
1. To what extent and in what ways were the reforms of the Spanish Bourbons effective?
2. What were the pros and cons of slave trade in the 18thc century?
3. Explain how mercantilism reflected the “marriage of politics and economy”. What challenges did it face?
4. In what ways did each of the major wars of the 18th century contribute to the next war?
5. What were the causes and effects of the Diplomatic Revolution?
6. In what ways did the mid-18thc Wars reflect the instability of the state
7. Do a Cost/Benefit analysis of mercantilism during the 18thc.
8. Compare and contrast the War of Spanish Succession and the Seven Years War.
9. To what extent and in what ways did the Wilkes affair and the Yorkshire Association movement reflect the problems and solutions of 18thc English politics?
10. Read the article, “The Columbian Exchange: Disease, Animals, & Agriculture” on pp. 582-585 in the Kagan text. Answer the question on p. 585 that follows the article.

Chapter 16 Review Questions

CHAPTER 16
REVIEW QUESTIONS

1. What kinds of privileges separated European aristocrats from other social groups? How did their privileges and influence affect other people living in the countryside? What was the condition of serfs in central and Eastern Europe?



2. How would you define the term family economy? How did the family economy constrain the lives of women in preindustrial Europe?



3. What caused the Agricultural Revolution? How did the English aristocracy contribute to the Agricultural Revolution? Why did peasants revolt in the eighteenth century?



4. Why did Europe’s population increase in the eighteenth century? How did population growth affect consumption?



5. What was the Industrial Revolution and what caused it? Why did Great Britain take the lead in the Industrial Revolution? How did consumers contribute to the Industrial Revolution?



6. How did the distribution of population in cities and towns change? How did the lifestyle of the upper class compare to that of the middle and lower classes? What were some of the causes of urban riots?



7. Where were the largest Jewish populations in eighteenth-century Europe? What was their social and legal position? What were the sources of prejudices against Jews?

Literacy in the Old Regime DBQ Thesis

Post your thesis for the DBQ: Literacy in the Old Regime before class on 12/16. Please comment on a classmate's thesis before class on 12/17. Comment should explain why you agree with their thesis, or CONSTRUCTIVELY critical of their thesis. All posts must be approved by Mr. Meli before they appear on the blog, so be patient...it will post.

December Reading/Assignment Schedule

APEH Reading/Assignment Schedule Chapters 16 & 17

Tuesday 12/14:
Sherman: pp. 83-84, “Letter to a Lady R., 1716: Women and the Aristocracy,
& “Women of the Third Estate”
Kagan: pp. 514-524 (stop at Children & the World of the Family Economy)

Wednesday 12/15:
Sherman: pp. 88-91 (all sources)
Kagan: pp. 524-529 (stop at Industrial Revolution)

Thursday 12/16:
Kagan: pp. 529-539 (stop at Growth of Citites)
Post DBQ thesis on class blog before class

Friday 12/17:
Kagan: pp 539-546
Comment on classmate blog post before class

Monday 12/20:
Kagan: p. 547, q. 1-6 Due
Social History Charts Due
Chapter 16 Test: Multiple Choice & FRQ
DBQ Essay & Chart Literacy in the Old Regime Due

Tuesday 12/21:
Kagan: pp. 552-560 (stop at Black African Slavery)

Wednesday 12/22:
Kagan: pp. 560-568
Sherman: pp. 82-83 “The Slave Trade”

Thursday 12/23:
Kagan: pp. 568-578

Monday 1/3/2011:
PERSIA Chart, Chapter 17 Due
Kagan: pp. 578-579, questions 1-6 due
Take Home Test, Chapter 17 Due