Thursday, October 03, 2013

October 3

Sorry for the later post tonight...
I went through some detailed notes on monetary and fiscal policy today. The "Sweden: The Welfare State" booklet is due tomorrow. One week from today you will have your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test". Please see the study guide below.

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Thursday, October 10th.

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 Test today. Please make sure that you read the "Causes of World War I" reading from your blue Social 20-1 study booklets. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, here's the study guide.
We finished off Episode 5 of "The Civil War", and started Episode 8 today. Your Episode 5 Questions are due on Monday. You have a current events quiz tomorrow. We'll try to finish off Episode 8 tomorrow and then move on to Episode 9.

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