March 12

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 1 position paper today in the Blenheim Room. You'll get the results back in all likelihood after Spring Break.

Social 30-1

We finished off the lecture on "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" today. You're writing the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test (Chapter 3-4 Test) tomorrow; please see the study guide below.

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is on Friday, March 13th. This is a multiple choice test.

 1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations:

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

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. 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 
•  Edmund Burke and classical conservatism 

 5. 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

IB 30/35

You did the jigsaw activity today with each member of your group taking 15 minutes to teach the others in the group their section of the Cold War. For the last 35 minutes of class your group should have produced a detailed outline to answer one of the two essay questions that you were given. Please have a hard copy of the outline and question sheet to hand in tomorrow. I want to check it over to make sure that you did it right.

March 11

Social 30-1

I started a lecture on "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" today, which I will try to finish off tomorrow. This lecture covers part of Chapter 4 and Chapter 6. On Friday, you are writing the Chapter 3-4 Test (Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test), please see the study guide below.

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is on Friday, March 13th. This is a multiple choice test.

 1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations:

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

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. 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 
•  Edmund Burke and classical conservatism 

 5. 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

Social 10-1

We were able to do an activity based around the story "The Rabbits". This book addresses some of the themes that we'll be looking at Unit 2, such as cultural contact, assimilation, imperialism, differing world views, and residential schools. We spent a fair bit of time looking at the symbolism in the book and some of the themes that the book introduces. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday. You are writing the Unit 1 WRA II position paper tomorrow in the Blenheim Room. 

IB 30/35

I started a lecture today on "US Foreign Policy in Latin America", please go through the remaining slides are your own. We also watch the "Backyard" episode of the CNN Cold War series. I've posted notes on the IB 30/35 wiki for this episode. Please be ready for tomorrow's activity!

October 23

SOCIAL 30-1

I wrote notes on the board about the leaders of the Soviet Union, so if you missed class today, you need to get these notes from a classmate. We talked about perestroika, the Four Modernizations, and market socialism today as well. We also started talking about different types of dictatorships. You completed an exit slip at the end of class.  You're writing the Market and Mixed Economy Test tomorrow, please see the study guide below. 

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Thursday, October 24th

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
• nationalization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession

SOCIAL 20-1

I continued the PowerPoint presentation today called "Ultranationalism in WWII". You can go through the last 8 slides on your own. We watched an excerpt from the movie "Pearl Harbour" to look at the Japanese surprise attack that pulled the USA into the Second World War. 

IB 30/35

You wrote the Social 30-1 WRA II position paper today in the Red Lab. Tomorrow, Thursday, October 24th, you're writing the Market and Mixed Economy Test (please see the study guide below). I would recommend looking at "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" PowerPoint presentation for this test as well. You can find it on the IB 30 History wiki, under the Unit 2 tab. 

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Thursday, October 24th

• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• nationalization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies 
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession 

October 22

IB 30/35

We did a little review of how to write the Social 30-1 WRA II position paper today. If you missed class today, you need to see me tomorrow during tutorial to go over how to organize your essay. I also strongly recommend that you check out my PowerPoint lecture on the IB 30/35 wiki called "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" in preparation for the Market and Mixed Economy Test this Thursday. You can find it under the Unit 2 link on the sidebar navigation (Unit 2 under Social Studies 30-1). It will cover a lot of the economic concepts that we covered in class as well. 

You are writing the Social 30-1 WRA II position paper tomorrow in the Red Lab, please go there directly in Period 2. 

On Thursday, October 24th, you're writing the Market and Mixed Economy Test (please see the study guide below). 

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Thursday, October 24th

• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• nationalization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies 
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession   

SOCIAL 20-1

I taught you a mnemonic device today about the League of Nations (FAILURe), make sure to get these notes from a classmate if you missed class today. We started looking at the PowerPoint presentation today called "Ultranationalism in WWII". We'll continue this lecture tomorrow with Italy. I also gave you about 25 minutes to work on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Friday, October 25th. 

SOCIAL 30-1

We talked about the Canadian Federal Election for about 25 minutes today. I showed you a documentary today (A & E Biography) called "Joseph Stalin: Red Terror". While you watched this video you should have completed the film study in your Social 30-1 course books.  

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Thursday, October 24th

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
• nationalization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession

October 21

IB 30/35

We did a little review of supply-side and demand-side economics today. I strongly recommend that you check out my PowerPoint lecture on the IB 30/35 wiki called "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism". You can find it under the Unit 2 link on the sidebar navigation (Unit 2 under Social Studies 30-1). It will cover a lot of the economic concepts that we covered in class as well.

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Thursday, October 24th

• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• nationalization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies 
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession

SOCIAL 30-1

We looked at the command economy notes in your Social 30-1 coursebooks today. You were responsible for going through the notes on Marx, Lenin,and Stalin in your coursebooks this past weekend, so make sure that you have done this. 

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Thursday, October 24th

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
• nationalization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession

SOCIAL 20-1

You read over the section in your Social 20-1 coursebooks called "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" We watched the BBC 20th Century History series video "Why Appeasement?", and while you watched the video you should have completed the film study, which took most of the period. We'll keep looking at the road to World War II tomorrow.

October 9

Social 30-1

We finished off the "Evolution of Modern Liberalism" lecture today. There are a couple of slides that you should probably print off as single pages because they are hard to read otherwise. Tomorrow, you are presenting in your small groups about the party platforms of your assigned political parties, and profiling the candidates running for election in Calgary Nose Hill, Calgary Confederation, and Calgary Rocky Ridge. One week from today you are writing the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test. This is a multiple choice format test, and it corresponds to material in Chapter 3 and the first half of Chapter 4. Please see the study guide below.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

This test is on Wednesday, October 16th. 

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations: 

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

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. 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 
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

5. 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 

Social 20-1

We started looking at the Allied victory in WWI and the subsequent Paris Peace Conference today. We'll continue looking at the Treaty of Versailles tomorrow. The mnemonic device that I started teaching you today (GARGLe) is a helpful way to remember the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. We'll look at specific terms of the treaties tomorrow and their impacts.

IB 30/35

Most of today's class was spent in the Red Lab working with your partner on the Google Doc chart comparing and contrasting the Great Depression in Canada and Latin America. You will have tomorrow's class to work on this as well.

October 4

Sorry, I forgot to post this yesterday.

IB 30/35

We continued with the "FDR and the New Deal" Google Slides lecture today. I also showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "FDR and the New Deal". On Monday, please come to Room 111, then we'll be going down to the Library to work on the New Deal Programs Chart. I will share this Google Doc on the IB 30/35 wiki on Monday morning during class. 

This weekend you should be working on the "Challenges to the New Deal Assignment", which is due on Monday, October 7th. 

Please go to the D2L shell called "Social Studies 30-1_cohort IB HL", find the IA Submissions folder in the Assignments folder and upload your IA. Thanks!

SOCIAL 30-1

I started "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" lecture today. I'll continue this lecture on Wednesday. We're booked into a computer lab on Monday and Tuesday, learning about the federal election, the party platforms for each party. You'll have to do a presentation on the political parties on Thursday of next week. On Monday, please come to Room 111, then we'll go down to the computer lab together. 

SOCIAL 20-1

You wrote the Chapter 3-4 Test today. The Unit 1 Final Exam is on Monday, October 7th. Please see the study guide below. You're writing the Unit 1 WRA I on Tuesday, October 8th, you'll be allowed to use the writing guide in class. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, October 8th. 

SOCIAL 20-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

You will be writing the Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, October 7th. It is a multiple choice  format exam. Make sure that you have read Chapters 1-4 in Exploring Nationalism. Please make sure that you know the key concepts from Unit 1 (see below). Also review the PowerPoint presentations that you should have in your notes. They are also on the Social 20-1 wiki under Unit 1 Presentations.

These are the presentations that you should review:

1. Nation and Identity
2. The French Revolution
3. The Napoleonic Age
4. Contending Loyalties

• nation
• nation-state
• nationalism
• patriotism
• self-determination
• sovereignty
• sovereign
• civic nation
• civic nationalism
• ethnic nationalism
• collective consciousness
• French Revolution
• Estates-General
• Louis XVI
• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• cahiers de doléances
• Ancien Régime
• bourgeoisie
• feudal system
• philosophes
• Declaration of the Rights of Man
• National Assembly
• Tennis Court Oath
• constitutional monarchy
• Jacobins
• Girondins
• National Convention
• levée en masse
• Robespierre
• Danton
• Marat
• Reign of Terror
• Napoleon
• Napoleonic Code
• Continental System
• contending loyalties
• cultural pluralism
• reasonable accommodation
• sovereignists
• federalists
• royal commission
• expressions of nationalism
• non-nationalist loyalty
• alienation
• segregation

March 18

Social 20-1

I showed you the A & E Biography "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler" today. Please make sure that you read the Interwar Years section in your Social 20-1 course books (pages 127-134). I gave back your Unit 1 WRA I Chart Assignment today. Tomorrow, you will get back your Unit 1 WRA I three source interpretation assignments. The Unit 1 WRA I will count rather heavily on your overall mark until we do another writing assignment.

Social 30-1

I finished off the PowerPoint lecture "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" today. I also went through how demand-side and supply-side economics deal with a recession. It's good to visualize the percolator and the coffee maker to get the difference between the two.

March 14

Social 30-1

I continued with the "Evolution of Modern Liberalism" lecture today, but I didn't finish it. Hopefully, I'll be able to finish this lecture off next week. Please remember that you have the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test tomorrow, please see the study guide below.

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Friday, March 15th. 

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. 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 
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

5. 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 

Social 20-1

I finished off the "Allied Victory in WWI and Paris Peace Conference" presentation today. I went through Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points as well today. We started an activity from your course books called "Making Peace" which should help you to understand more the national interests, goals and objectives of key participants at the Paris Peace Conference, namely Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George. We were interrupted by the fire drill, so we'll have to finish off this activity tomorrow.

March 13

Social 30-1

I showed you the video "Welfare a la carte" which is a case study on Norway's "womb to the tomb" economics ("cradle to the grave" economics). You should have taken notes on this video in your course books on the backside of page 81. Next, I started my lecture on "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism", which I will continue tomorrow. You're writing the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test on Friday, please see the study guide below. This test covers Chapter 3 and the first half of Chapter 4 material.

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Friday, March 15th. 

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. 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 
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

5. 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 

Social 20-1

I started to lecture today on "Allied Victory and the Paris Peace Conference". I taught you the mnemonic GARGLe to remember the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. I'll finish off this lecture tomorrow.

October 17

Social 30-1

We polished off the last of the "Evolution of Modern Liberalism" PowerPoint lecture and then we covered how supply-side and demand-side economics deals with a recession, and then we moved on to Russian history. I started showing a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia". The video was interrupted by the fire drill, so we'll have to finish it off on Friday.

Next Wednesday, you will be writing the Market and Mixed Economy Test, please see the study guide below. 

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Wednesday, October 24th

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
• nationalization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (percolator)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (coffee pot)

Social 10-1

I started a lecture today on "Historical Globalization and Imperialism". We're really getting into Unit 2 material now. Make sure that you have your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions ready for Friday's class.

IB 20 HOTA

We discussed the causes of the French Revolution and Napoleon's domestic policies. I did a homework check on your Napoleon's Domestic Policy Assignment. On Friday, I'm going to re-teach you how to write a three source interpretation (WRA I) in advance of your WRA I on the French Revolution that you're writing next week. Please have a look at the upcoming important dates for IB 20. You also have your French Revolution DBA due on Tuesday. 

UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES FOR IB 20 HOTA:

• French Revolution WRA I is on Monday, October 22nd
• IA research session, Blue Lab booked Tuesday, October 23rd
• French Revolution DBA Assignment is due October 23rd
• French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Test is on Wednesday, October 24th (please see the study guide below)

UNIT 5 TEST STUDY GUIDE: (FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEONIC AGE TEST) 

This test will have a mixed format: matching section, short answer section and a multiple choice section. This test will be written on Wednesday, October 24th. Please use the following study guide tips.

• study "The French Revolution" Google Slides presentation (on the IB 20 wiki)
• study "The Napoleonic Age" Google Slides presentation (on the IB 20 wiki; this presentation also contains information on the Congress of Vienna)

1. Study the following key terms, key events and key people associated with the French Revolution: (check the glossary of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age that is on the wiki; also check out the Timetoast timeline links on the IB 20 wiki)

• cahiers
• Law of Suspects
• Marat
• the “Plain”
• National Assembly
• the Directory
• Civil Constitution of the Clergy
• Danton
• Committee of Public Safety
• the Three Estates
• Louis XVI
• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• Clergy
• Nobility
• Bourgeoisie
• “nobles-of-the-sword”
• “nobles-of-the-robe”
• “nobles-of-the-bell”
• corvée
• gabelle
• vingtièmes
• Levée en Masse
• National Convention
• September Massacres
• Reign of Terror
• Robespierre
• Parlement du Paris
• the Tennis Court Oath
• the National Guard
• the Marquis de Lafayette
• Paris Commune
• National Guard
• émigrés
• Jacobins
• Girondins
• Estates-General
• Republic of Virtue
• Revolutionary Tribunal
• Declaration of the Rights of Man

2. Other study tips:

• know the causes of the French Revolution (short term, long term, economic, political, social, intellectual)
• know the structure of French society during the Old Regime
• know Napoleon's domestic policy
• know Napoleon's foreign policy (Continental System in particular)
• know key battles in the Napoleonic Wars (results of the Battle of Trafalgar, Russian campaign, the Battle of Leipzig, and the Battle of Waterloo)
• know chronology of key events in the French Revolution
• know the chronology of key events in the Napoleonic Age
• know the key players at the Congress of Vienna (country and representatives)
• what were the major decisions of the Congress? what were the guiding principles at the Congress of Vienna
• know the 19th century political spectrum (please see the graphic below; values and characteristics of the various positions on the spectrum; what groups are represented on the various positions on the spectrum?; what phases/accomplishments of the French Revolution are represented on the spectrum?)

3. Study the 19th century political spectrum (click on the graphic to enlarge it)