Midterm Study Guide:
World History:
Overview of Midterm:
The midterm exam consists of a document-based essay response for 100 points. You will have the entire class period to complete the midterm exam. The document essay question will focus on the theme of economic, political, and social reordering of the world from 1750-1900. The midterm will cover chapters 15-17 from the text book, Worlds Together Worlds Apart.
To provide historical context and evidential support to your essay, you should review chapters 15-17 in the textbook and the power point presentations provided on Moodle as well as your lecture and class discussion notes and the assigned documents (see list below) for the midterm.
Assigned Documents for Midterm:
- Declaration of Independence of American colonies (1776)
- Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution (1791)
- National Assembly, Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
- Andrew Ure, The Philosophies of Manufactures (1835)
- Frederich Engels, Conditions of the Working Class in England (1844)
- Louis Blanc, the Organization of Labor (1839)
- People’s Charter (1838)
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Seneca Falls Declaration and Sentiments (1848)
- Frederick Douglass, First Editorial of the North Star (1847)
- John Stuart Mills, On Colonies and Colonization (1848)
- Zongli Yamen, Circular Letter on the Unequal Treaties (1878)
- Yukichi Fukuzawa, Good-bye Asia (1885)
For the midterm, I will provide excerpts from the assigned documents above for you to reference and use in your essay response. If I do not provide a specific excerpt from the document you wish to use as evidential support, just paraphrase the reference and provide a citation in your essay to the document.
Study Guide for Midterm World History II:
Directions for Essay Response: For your essay response, you should have an introduction that introduces your focus, providing historical context to your focus, ending your introduction with a well-defined thesis statement. Your thesis statement should include a counterargument to your position on the question. Your introduction should also define any historic terms that you will use throughout your essay, so that you are establishing a clear foundation for your reader to follow your argument.
You should develop your thesis statement in the body of your response with clear topic sentences for each paragraph and selected evidential support from the excerpts of the assigned documents that you interpret in support of your thesis statement. Be sure to connect your review of the documents to the historical context of the time period of 1750-1900. Historical context will stem from your readings of the text book and lectures. Your response should have a conclusion that summarizes your major points and redirects the reader’s attention back to your thesis statement, underscoring how you have proven your position on the question.
Your response should engage one of the political documents of the Atlantic Revolutions and explore economic transformation of the Industrial Revolution.
Your response should acknowledge one of the alternative visions of the nineteenth century that challenged the dominant perspective of the Atlantic Revolutions in reshaping the world order from 1850-1900 as your counterargument.
You should write at least a five-paragraph response. At a minimum, you should use excerpts from three (3) documents to support your thesis statement.
Be sure to provide citations to the documents in your response. Please note: You do not have to cite completely (or transcribe completely) a quote provided for the midterm exam. Select key sentences from each quote that you wish to use to support your position on the question or you may paraphrase a key passage in a document to support your position, just remember to put a citation to the document within your sentence.
Here is the Essay Question:
Q: Examine the world order that emerged within the nineteenth century in light of the revolutions in the Atlantic world (both political and industrial).
How did these revolutions alter the world order of the nineteenth century? What, if any, were the limitations of these revolutions?