Tuesday, March 10, 2015

March 10


I started a lecture today on "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism", which I will finish on Thursday. Please remember that there is no school tomorrow due to Parent-Teacher Interviews. Don't forget that you are writing the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test on Friday.



This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Friday, March 13th. This test covers material from Chapter 3 and part of Chapter 4.

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

I started a lecture today called "Allied Victory to the Paris Peace Conference", which I will be able to finish on Thursday. Please remember that there is no school tomorrow due to Parent-Teacher Interviews.

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