World History Specific Objectives Unit 4
Literature Objectives
International Relations

1. Identify the major participants (both country and person) at the Congress of Vienna and their role in the final terms.
2. List the terms of the Congress of Vienna and discuss the alliances that grew out of this conference.
3.  Identify and explain reasons for the failure of the Concert of Europe.
4. Distinguish between the Concert of Europe and the Congress of Vienna.
5. Determine the impact of the Congress of Vienna.

Industrial Revolution

1. Describe the development of the technological innovations that were essential to the Industrial Revolution and their interdependence upon each other.
2. Describe how the Agriculture Revolution contributed to the Industrial Revolution.
3. Identify where the Industrial Revolution began and list the factors of production and explain their importance to the process of industrialization.
4. Describe how the development of the technological innovations impacted society during the 18th and 19th centuries.
5. Describe the stages of the Industrial Revolution
6. Describe how the factory system changed working and living conditions during the Industrial Revolution.
7. Identify the elements that made mass production possible.
8. Identify the economic theories of Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and philosophers John Mills and Jeremy Bentham.
9. Discuss the theory of scientific socialism formulated by Karl Marx.
10. Distinguish between socialism, communism, utopian socialism, modified market economy, and capitalism.
11. Discuss the reasons for population growth after the Industrial Revolution.
12. Describe the changes in life style that took place in Europe during the 1800's and how the Industrial Revolution effected these changes.
13.  Outline steps in the creation of a world economic system.
14. Summarize the contributions made to the social, physical and medical sciences during the 1800's.

Victorian Era (1800s)

1. Trace the development of reforms made in Great Britain between 1832 and 1867 and the early 1900's.
2. Describe social & political environment in Europe(world) the 19th century.
3.  Identify and explain characteristics of romanticism.
4.  Identify and explain characteristics of realism.
5.  Identify and explain evidence of anti-Semitism in Europe.
6. Identify the reasons for the French revolutions of 1848.
7. Describe the internal political problems faced by France in the late 1800'S.
8. Identify and explain reasons for revolutionary outbursts in Europe.
9. Explain the causes of and the forces at play during the revolutions of 1848.
10.  Explain how developments within Latin America led to Revolutions.
11. Identify the leaders of the Italian unification movement.
12. Trace the events and movements leading to Italian unification.
13. Describe the problems facing Italy after unification.
14. Discuss the major events in Germany's unification .
15. List the factors that made Germany's rapid industrialization possible.
16.  Describe the government of the German Empire.
17. Summarize the social reforms adopted under Bismarck made after the unification.
18.  Explain the aims of the Russian foreign policy.
19. Discuss the conditions present for revolution in Russia at the turn of the century.
20.  Discuss why the Revolution of 1905 failed.
21. Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the Dual Monarchy.
22. Explain the reasons for the decline of the Ottoman Empire.
23.  Describe the results of international rivalry and war in the Balkans.
24.  Describe developments in the United States.

Imperialism

1. Identify the political, economic, and social motives for imperialism.
2.  Name the European countries that colonized the different regions of Africa.
3. Outline the steps in the colonization of Africa & identify the different types of Colonial Rule.
4. Describe European competitions for control of Africa.
5.  Explain how the combination of resources, cultural differences, and location led to the establishment of colonial states in Southern Africa.
6. Compare the costs and benefits of imperialism for Africans.
7.  Compare the costs and benefits of imperialism for India
8.  Explain the effect of British rule on the economy, politics, and culture of India.
9. Explain the purpose of the Berlin Conference and the effects on African Tribes.
10. Explain the development of the Meiji Restoration in Japan.
11.  Discuss the impact of colonialism on the economies and cultures of Southeast Asia.

Literature Objectives

1.   To compare and contrast the nineteenth century movements of Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, and Symbolism in England.
2.   To analyze the political, social, economic, scientific, and cultural foundations of these movements.
3.   To interpret and respond to nineteenth-century literature orally and in writing.