World History 2

From the Enlightenment to the Cold War

 Course
Description
 Explain how the Renaissance has revotionalize the arts and the
sciences
I. Enlightenment Period
A. The Scientific Revolution
B. The Enlightenment in Europe
Course Outline C. The Enlightenment Spreads
D. The American Revolution
 Describe how economic and social inequalities in the
Old Regime helped cause the French Revolution.
II. The French Revolution
A. Causes of the French Revolution
Course Outline B. The Reign of Terror
C. Napoleon Bonaparte and His Empire
D. The Congress of Viena
 Explain how the Europeans have catapulted themselves in the
forefront of Age of Exploration
III. The Age of Exploration
A. The Europeans explored the East
B. China Limits European
C. Japan Returns to Isolation
Course Outline D. Spain Builds an American Empire
E. European Nations Settle in North America
F. The Atlantic Slave Trade
G. The Columbian Exchange and Global Trade 
  Examine the Causes of the Reformation
IV. The Reformation

Course Outline A. Martin Luther and the Reformation

B. The Counterreformation
 Describe how the Industrial Revolution Spreads

V. The Industrial Revolution

Course A. The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution

Description B. Industrialization in Europe

C. Industrialization Spreads
D. Reforming the Industrial World
 Explain how military built up, nationalistic feelings and rival
alliances set the stage for the World Wars.
VI. The World at War
Course A. World War I

Description B. World War II

 Course  The Cold War
Description
  Quizzes 30 %
 Performance Task 35%
 Examinations 35%
Grading System ____________________________
Midterm 50%
Finals 50%
  Attendance

Course  Participation

Requirements  Outputs
 1. The Enlightenment influenced revolutionary thought by
a. Encouraging the poor to take up arms
b. Stressing the importance of the monarchy
Let’s Try This c.
d.
Designing a common revolutionary strategy
Instilling a belief in the natural rights of man
 The American Revolution was motivated by the Enlightened
idea
a. Of a distinct class system
b. That all men are created equal
2. c. Of the rightful rule of a monarch
d. That government needs central authority
 He believed that every person was born with a tabula rasa,
or blank slate.
a. Locke
b. Voltaire
3. c. Montesquieu
d. Frederick the Great
 This class was unaffected by the Enlightenment…
a. Nobles
b. Bourgeoisie
4. c. Clergy
d. Lower class and peasants
 This philosophe separated the government into three
branches of government and argued for separation of
powers.
a. Voltaire
5. b. Montesquieu
c. Locke
 Diderot
 John Wesley founded this form of religion during the
Enlightenment.
a. Catholicism
6. b. Methodism
c. Christianity
d. Buddhism
 Enlightenment thinkers contributed to changes in
relationships between citizens and governments through
their belief that _______
a. Most changes in government are dangerous
b. Absolute monarchy is the most effective form of
7. government
c. Governments are instituted to protect citizens’ rights
d. Popular liberties should be limited by the need for social
order
 Which of the following identifies one of the ways
Enlightenment ideas influenced the actions of colonial
leaders in Latin America?
a. They strengthened the power of the Catholic Church
b. They shared their wealth with the lower classes
8. c. They demanded self-government from Spain and
Portugal
d. They abolished slavery throughout Latin America
 Colonists in North America protested against the taxes
imposed on them by the British following the French and
Indian War. What was the main reason the colonists were
upset about these taxes?
a. Colonists believed that because they lived so far from
Britain, they did not have to pay taxes on anything
b. Colonists were not represented in the British Parliament
9. and for that reason believed the taxes were unjust
c. Colonists drank less tea than people living in Britain, so
the tax was an unfair burden on them
d. Colonists had already paid a great deal to fund the
British effort in the French and Indian War.
 Which of these enlightened rulers made enlightened
reforms but completely failed?
a. Frederick the Great

10. b. Joseph II
c. Catherine the Great
d. Louis XVI
 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
includes several Enlightenment ideas. Which of the
following is not one of the Enlightenment ideas
incorporated into the document?
a. Citizens should have a voice in the decisions the
government makes on their behalf
b. People give rights to their governments to limit their
11. governments’ power
c. All citizens possess basic human rights (ie. freedom of
speech)
d. People are incapable of ruling themselves because they
are inherently disorganized and chaotic
 The application of science and reason to understanding the
world resulted in the 1700s being known for the
a. New Deal
b. Enlightenment
12. c. Progressive Movement
d. Reformation
 The discoveries of Isaac Newton had a major influence on
Enlightenment thinkers. In what way was this influence so
significant?
a. Enlightenment thinkers attempted to base their
philosophies on religious tradition
b. Enlightenment thinkers studied Newton’s writings about
the freedom of human beings and the proper role of

13. kings and governments

c. Enlightenment thinkers employed Newton’s scientific
method when exploring questions about human nature
and the responsibilities of the citizen
d. Enlightenment thinkers looked to the works of
Copernicus and Galileo, as Newton had, when seeking
answers about the nature of art and religion
 Montesquieu believed that to prevent tyranny in government
there should be a separation of powers. Which of the
following best illustrates this idea?
a. Absolute power in the executive branch
14. b. Splitting power among three or more countries
c. Total power in the legislative branch
d. Dividing power among three branches of government
 Which of the following is not an idea from the
Enlightenment?
a. People have natural rights
b. Problems can be solved by using reason
15. c. Kings ruled by divine right
d. Government should serve the people
 These are the three locations in which the Seven Years War
was fought.
a. Europe, North America and India
b. North America, South America, and India
16. c. Europe, India, and Africa
d. India, Africa, and Japan
 The willingness of people to hand over their rights to a ruler
in exchange for law and order in society was called the
a. Scientific method
b. Magna Carta
17. c. Enlightenment
d. Social contract
 The philosopher who believed that all people are born free
and equal, with the rights to life, liberty, and property was
a. John Locke
b. Thomas Hobbes
18. c. Galileo Galilei
d. Baron de Montesquieu
 The group of social critics in Enlightenment France were
called
a. Satirists
b. Philosophes
19. c. Stoics
d. Revolutionaries
 The new intellectual movement that stressed reason and
thought and the power of an individual to solve problems
was the
a. Scientific Revolution
20. b. Enlightenment
c. Great Awakening
d. Geocentric theory
B. II. Voices from the past

1. How do you think the observation of Galileo,

created a new view of the universe in the seventeenth
century?
Continuation

2. Why do you think Religious toleration was one of

the major themes during the Enlightenment?
 Group 1- The Beginning of The Scientific Period
A. Advances in Astronomy (Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo,
Newton,
B. Medicine and Chemistry (Andreas Vesalius, William

Activity No. 1 Harvey, Lavoisier ,

C. The Scientific Method (Descartes and Francis Bacon
 Group 2- The Enlightenment Period
A. The Beginning of the Enlightenment Period

Continuation B. The Philosophes (Montesquieu, Voltaire, Lock, Hobbes,

Diderot, Adam Smith, Beccaria, Rosseau, Wollstonecraft
 I. Names and Terms
1. Ptolemy
2. Heliocentric view
3. Robert Boyle
4. Copernicus
5. Geocentric view
6. Rene Descartes
Quiz No.1 7. Johannes Kepler
8. Isaac Newton
9. Francis Bacon
10.Galileo Galilei
11.William Harvey
 12. Philosophe
13.Baron de Montesquieu
14. Tabula rasa
15. Isaac Newton
16. John Locke
17. Adam Smith
18. Dennis Diderot
Continuation 19. Laissez-faire
20. Voltaire
21. social contract
22. Separation of Powers
23. John Jacques Roseau
24. Cesare Baccaria
 II.
Read this selection from John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government, an
Enlightenment document published soon after the Glorious Revolution in England.
“Man being born . . . with a title to perfect freedom, and an uncontrolled
enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature, equally with any
Quiz No. 1
other man, or number of men in the world, hath by nature a power, not only to
preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate, against the injuries and
One skill historians develop is the ability attempts of other men; but to judge of, and punish the breaches of that law in
to examine a current idea or event and others, as he is persuaded the offence deserves, even with death itself, in crimes
trace it back to its origins. They are then
where the heinousness of the fact, in his opinion, requires it.”
able to analyze all the
consequences that came about. Tracking
the influence of an idea through time
allows historians to see what ideas and How do you think that Locke’s ideas
events have been crucial to determining have influenced people’s perceptions
our world today of themselves and society over time?
Make a list of the natural rights that
you have just by being human. How
would you modify the list that Locke
originally proposed?
Quiz No. 1

 B.
III.
  Mary Wollstonecraft
1759–1797—English writer

Mary Wollstonecraft is considered by many to be the founder of the European and

Output No.1 American movements for women’s rights. Wollstonecraft was
largely self-educated. For a while, she earned a living as a governess but
soon moved to a writing career and worked for a magazine publisher.
All along, Wollstonecraft continued to develop her ideas on education
and women’s rights. She wrote in 1792: “Make women rational creatures,

People in and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; that is—if men
do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers!”

History Mary Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin in 1797.

She died shortly after the birth of their daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, who
wrote the famous novel Frankenstein.

 Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women are

entitled to the same rights as men.
In an essay, present an argument for
today’s audience on the same issue,
using evidence and logic.
C