AP World History

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AP World History

• 1750 1914 Overview
• (Periodization Question Why 1750 1914?)

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Industrialization changed Production

• Britain was the center (geography, distribution
  of coal and iron, demographic changes/urbanization
  , B. entrepreneurialism access to foreign
  resources through colonialism, capitalism)
• Factories and fossil fuel-based machines
• Colonialism search for raw materials markets
  new patterns of trade, capitalism and New
  Imperialism (China, India)
• IR contributed to decline of agriculturally-based
  economies
• Mining imp gold/silver/diamonds (S. Africa,)

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Changes in Global Commerce, Communication and
Technology

• Modes of Transportation/ communication
• Impact of railroad, steam, telegraph
• Suez Canal, Panama Canal

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Changes in Global Commerce, Communication and
Technology

• Industrial Revolution Financial Institutions,
  Responses
• Rationale of capitalism Adam Smith,
  laissez-faire
• Stock market expansion, transnational businesses
• Impact of I.R. on family and work
• Relationship of nations during I.R.
• Have/have-nots, nation response (Egypt,China
  vs. Japan, Meiji reforms)
• Intellectual responses to I.R. Marxism,
• socialism, utopianism, unions - govts create
  state pensions, suffrage, education

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Power loom
Fatcat
Milltown
Miner
Streetchildren
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Demographic/Environmental Changes

• Migration Immigration
• Why?
• Where?
• Global Urbanization
• Women take new rolesMigrant Males (labor)
• Prejudice, racism laws(Chinese Exclusion Act)
• New transplant culture think IS DBQ, Chinese
  railroads, convict labor in Australia

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Demographic and Environmental Changes

• End of Atlantic Slave Trade capitalism and
  Indentured servitude, voluntary migration
• New Birthrate Patterns
• Disease prevention
• and eradication
• Food Supply
• Population RISES

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Changes in Social and Gender Structure

• Industrial Revolution women working and then
  VICTORIAN ERA at home
• Commercial developments
• Tension between work patterns and ideas about
  gender
• Emancipation of Serfs
• Slaves
• Suffrage

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Changes in Social and Gender Structure

• Womens emancipation movements

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European women 19th century
Queen Victorias family
British family in India
Russian peasant family
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Nationalism, Revolution, Reform

• Enlightenment thought political individual
  rights freedoms (Voltaire, Rousseau, Locke,
  Montesquieu) REVOLUTIONS!
• New documents (Declaration of Independence,
  Declaration of Rights of Man)
• Abolition of slavery, expanded suffrage
• Development of nationalism (language, religion,
  culture, tdentiity byt erritory)
• Revolutions in Americas led to New Imperialism
• Anti-colonial movements (Boxer Rebellion) led to
  reforms (Tanzimat, Self-strengthening movements)
  and new ideologies (socialism, communism)
• Europeans self-superiority conservatism, new
  imperialism, social darwinism
• Womens Rights (Seneca Falls, Declaration of the
  Rights of Women, Wollstonecraft)

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Political Revolutions and Independence Movements

• Revolutions
• Why Revolution now?
• Where?
• United States (1776)
• France (1789)
• Haiti (1803)
• Mexico (1910)
• China (1911)

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Political Revolutions and Independence Movements

• Latin American Independence Movements
• Why?

Simon Bolivar
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Political Revolutions and Independence Movements

• Haitian Revolution

Toussaint LOuverture
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Political Revolutions and Independence Movements

• Mexican Revolution

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Political Revolutions and Independence Movements
Dr. Sun Yat Sen

• Chinese Revolution

Manchus
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New Political Ideas

• Rise of Nationalism
• Growth of Nation-states/ empires

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New Political Ideas

• Movements of Political Reform ag. Govt.
• Jacobins in France
• Taiping Rebellion in China

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New Political Ideas

• Rise of Democracy and its limitations
• Reform
• Women
• Racism
• Social Darwinism
• Herbert Spencer

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Rise of Western Dominance, New Imperialism
Nation-States

• Imperialism/Colonialism
• WHY3 Gs economic, national pride, social just.
• HOW Use of force, technology, cures, take
  advantage of African rivalries
• Changes Old (colonialism) to New Imperialism
• ie. African continent, much of Asia, and Oceania
• Ethiopia, Liberia and Siam are the only
  independent countries

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Imperialism Nation-State Reaction

• Industrial powers create transoceanic empires
  British (India), Dutch (Indonesia), American and
  Japan
• Use of warfare diplomacy to create empires
• Europeans establish settler colonies (British in
  S. Africa, Australia and New Zealand)
• Economic Imperialism (US and Britain in Latin
  America, Opium Wars in China, US influence over
  Tokugawa Japan leads to Meiji Transformation)
• Anti-Imperial Resistance Movements
• Social Darwinism facilitated and justified
  imperialism
• Social Darwinism, facilitated justified
  imperialism

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Rise of Western Dominance

• Scramble for Africa

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Rise of Western Dominance

• Cultural and Political Reactions to western
  dominance (reform, resistance, rebellion, racism,
  nationalism)
• Japan Commodore Perry and Meiji Restoration
• Russia Reforms and Rebellions
• Siam and Ethiopia-- defensive modernization
• China--Boxer Rebellion
• Islamic and Chinese responses compared
• Impact of Changing European Ideologies on
  Colonial Administrations

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Rise of Western Dominance

• Japan Commodore Perry and Meiji Restoration

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Rise of Western Dominance

• ChinaBoxer Rebellion

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Rise of Western Dominance

• Economic, Political, Social, Cultural, Artistic

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Ottomans in 19th century attempts at reform,
but sick man of Europe
Young Turk Revolutionaries
The Last Sultans
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CCOT and CC ideas

• Industrial revolution in western Europe and Japan
  (causes and early phases)
• Revolutions (American, French, Haitian, Mexican,
  and Chinese)
• Reaction to foreign domination in Ottomans
  empire, China, India and Japan.

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Comparisons and CCOT

• Nationalism changes/continuities over time
  compare between regions
• Difference in forms of intervention in 19th
  century Latin America and Africa
• Roles and conditions of upper/ middle versus
  working/ peasant class women in western Europe

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Conclusions

• What are the global processes that are at play?
  Which have intensified? Diminished?
• Predict how the events of the 19th century are a
  natural culmination of earlier developments.
• Speculate what historical events in the 19th
  century would have most surprised historians of
  earlier eras.