Semester I Exam Review Sheet 2024-25

Modern World History 9 Semester I Exam Review Sheet
Enlightenment and Revolution
I. The Scientific Revolution
Main Ideas.
1. What changes led to the dawn of modern science?

2. What was the Scientific Revolution?
3. How did scientific ideas move beyond the realm of science and affect society?
II. The Enlightenment
Key People. (Be able to identify the following people’s main contribution(s) to
Enlightenment thought)
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. John Locke
3. Baron de Montesquieu
4. Voltaire
5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6. Mary Wollstonecraft
7. Adam Smith
Main Ideas.
1. What was the Enlightenment?

2. What new views did philosophers have about government?
3. What new views did philosophers have about society?
4. How did Enlightenment ideas spread?
III. The American Revolution
Main Ideas Questions.

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1. What were some of the causes of change and crisis in the American
colonies?
2. How was the struggle for independence affected by Enlightenment concepts?
3. How did American colonists form a new government?
The French Revolution and Napoleon
I. The Revolution Begins
Key Terms & People.

1. King Louis XVI
2. Marie-Antoinette
3. bourgeoisie
4. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
5. radical
Main Ideas.
1. What were the main causes of the French Revolution?

2. Describe the Old Order. Discuss the rights and responsibilities of each
Estate.
3. How did the French create a new nation?
II. The Republic
Key Terms & People.
1. Maximilien Robespierre
2. guillotine
3. counterrevolution
Main Ideas.
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1. What changes did the radical government make in French society and politics?
2. What was the Reign of Terror, and how did it end?
III. Napoleon’s Europe
Key Terms & People.
1. Napoleon Bonaparte
2. coup d’état
3. plebiscite
4. Continental System
5. nationalism
Main Ideas.
1. Describe Napoleon’s rise to power in France.

2. How did emperor Napoleon come to dominate Europe?
3. What were the most important changes that Napoleon brought to France?
4. Did Napoleon uphold the principles of the French Revolution?
IV. Napoleon’s Fall and Europe’s Reaction
Key Terms & People.

1. The Hundred Days
2. Exile
Main Ideas.
1. What events caused disaster and defeat for Napoleon?

2. What were Napoleon’s last campaigns?
3. What is the legacy of the French Revolution in France? Throughout the rest
of the world?
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The Industrial Revolution
I. A New Kind of Revolution

Key Terms and People
1. Industrial Revolution
2. enclosure movement
3. factors of production (Land, labor and capital)
4. cottage industry
5. factory
6. industrialization
Main Ideas.
1. List and describe the five factors behind the development of industry in Great
Britain.
2. Where did the Industrial Revolution spread beyond Great Britain?
II. Factories and Workers

1. labor union
2. strike
3. interchangeable parts
4. assembly line
Main Ideas Questions
1. How was production organized before factories?
2. What were some benefits of the cottage system of production?
3. What are some facts that illustrate the difficulties of factory work?
4. What were factories and factory towns like?
5. What was mass production, and what were its effects?
III. New Ideas in a New Society

1. laissez-faire
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2. Adam Smith
3. Invisible Hand
4. Capitalism
5. Socialism
6. Karl Marx
7. Friedrich Engels
8. Standard of living
9. Middle class
10. Child labor
Main Ideas Questions
1. Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of both capitalism and socialism.
2. How did the Industrial Revolution affect society?
3. What are the benefits and drawbacks of technology?
The Age of Imperialism (Time permitting)

1. Social Darwinism
2. Suez Canal
3. Berlin Conference
4. The White Man’s Burden
Main Ideas
1. What changes set the stage for European imperialism in Asia and Africa?
2. What were the causes and effects of Imperialism in the 1800s?
3. How did British rule over India change its economy and society?
4. How did imperialism impact China in the 19th century?
5. How did European rule give rise to nationalism in Asia and Africa?
6. What advances in technology made European domination of Africa possible?
7. Discuss short term and long-term effects of European imperialism in Africa.
8. Briefly describe American involvement in Latin America and the Philippines
during the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
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Modern World History 9 Semester I Exam Review Sheet

Enlightenment and Revolution

I. The Scientific Revolution

1. What changes led to the dawn of modern science?

II. The Enlightenment

1. What was the Enlightenment?

III. The American Revolution

Main Ideas Questions.

The French Revolution and Napoleon

I. The Revolution Begins

Key Terms & People.

1. What were the main causes of the French Revolution?

II. The Republic

Key Terms & People.

III. Napoleon’s Europe

Key Terms & People.

1. Describe Napoleon’s rise to power in France.

IV. Napoleon’s Fall and Europe’s Reaction

Key Terms & People.

1. What events caused disaster and defeat for Napoleon?

I. A New Kind of Revolution

II. Factories and Workers

III. New Ideas in a New Society

The Age of Imperialism (Time permitting)

Key Terms and People

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