World Studies
First Semester Exam Review Guide
*Be able to define, analyze, describe, and explain all of the following:
Geography
Birth Rate
Death Rate
Life Expectancy
Infant Mortality
Per Capita GDP
Population
Charts
Graphs
Political Cartoons: Be able to look at a political cartoon and tell what it means
Government
Dictatorship
Theocracy
Presidential Democracy
Parliamentary Democracy
Absolute Monarchy
Constitutional Monarchy
Enlightenment
John Locke
Baron de Montesquieu
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire
Thomas Hobbes
Scientific Revolution
Catholic Church: know the church’s involvement in the European Monarchy’s
Divine Right
Revolutions
Junta
Jihad: A holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty; a bitter strife or crusade undertaken in the spirit of a holy war.
Coup d’etat
Civil Disobedience/Nonviolent Protest
Civil War
Guerilla Warfare
Urban Terrorism: terrorist attacks that are aimed at urban areas. The hope is that more people will die and there will be more of an affect.
War for Independence
American Revolution
Causes of the American Revolution
Stamp Act: tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
Townsend Act: taxes on glass, paper, teas, paints and other goods shipped to the colonies from Britain.
Boston Massacre
Impacts of the American Revolution
Declaration of Independence/Thomas Jefferson
Common Sense
Boston Tea Party
Patriot: one who loves and defends his or her country
French Revolution
First Estate
Second Estate
Third Estate
Estates General
Louis XVI
Tax System
Bourgeoisie: French Middle Class
National Assembly
Storming of the Bastille
Declaration of the Rights of man: Document approved by the National Assembly of France (created by the Third Estate) that was similar in the U.S. Declaration of Independence in that it listed the grievances that the French had against Louis XVI.
Napoleon Bonaparte: Became leader of France after the French Revolution, the people of France accepted his rule because they wanted him to bring stability to France.
Robespierre/Reign of Terror
Results of the French Revolution
Congress of Vienna: Meeting of remaining Monarchs in Europe to settle issues in Europe after The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Worked to reestablish political boundaries in Europe.
Latin American Revolution
Toussaint L’ Overture
Simon Bolivar
Colony
Mestizos (Mulattoes)
Creoles
Haiti
Industrial Revolution
Industrialization
Urban
Rural
Sanitation
Labor Unions
Child Labor
Systems of Transportation
Railways
Stagecoach
Coal
Natural Resources
Agricultural (Agrarian) Revolution
Enclosure Movement
Empire
Textiles
Reform: Changes in working conditions
Imperialism
Nationalism
Imperialism
Colonization
Empire
Three types of Imperialism
Sepoy Mutiny
Opium War
Boxer Rebellion- Attempt to drive foreign influence out of China.
The Great Game
World War I
The MAIN Causes of WWI
Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia