Friday, September 25, 2009

September 25


You did your in-class political cartoon analysis assignments in today's class. Next Friday (October 2nd), you will have a 55 question multiple choice test that covers material from Chapter 3 and the first half of Chapter 4. Please see the study guide below.

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations:

  • "The Development of Classical Liberalism"
  • "Responding to Classical Liberalism"

2. Be familiar with key concepts introduced in Chapters 3 and 4.

3. The Industrial Revolution:

  • understand fundamental economic, social and political changes that were caused by the Industrial Revolution
  • understand the connection between the Agricultural Revolution and the Enclosure Acts and the Industrial Revolution
  • understand the differences, advantages and disadvantages of the cottage system and the factory system

4. Review material in the "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet

5. Key Beliefs of the Various Ideologies (review the spectrums briefly); also review this material from the "Responding to Classical Liberalism" PowerPoint presentation:

  • Adam Smith
  • laissez faire economics/capitalism (key ideas)
  • John Stuart Mill
  • Karl Marx (key ideas and beliefs associated with Marx, Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, withering away of the state, dictatorship of the proletariat, view of history, etc. ) and Friedrich Engels (see "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet)
  • Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

6. Some questions may require you to make connections between this year's material and what you learned in 10-1 and 20-1 as well


You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Quiz today. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Written Response Assignment I (3 source analysis) in class time on Monday, September 28th. You also have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Thursday, October 1st, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

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