Modern Europe- Cooke
January, 2016
Name:___________________________________
Modern Europe Midterm Study Guide
LOGISTICS OF THE MIDTERM:
• The exam is on Friday, January 22nd at 8:00 am (arrive by 7:50 am).
• Location: C345, C346 and C348 (exact room assignments for each student will be on the
doors of the classrooms on the morning of the midterm exam)
• The midterm exam is worth 10%-20% of your Semester 1 grade
WHAT YOU SHOULD BRING WITH YOU TO THE MIDTERM:
• 2 sharpened pencils/2 pens to the exam. You can write the essay in pen.
• A one-page outline for the exam essay. This outline must follow the guidelines on page 2 of
this guide.
The mid-term exam will cover and consist of the following:
Units Covered:
• Renaissance & Reformation
• English Civil War
• Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment
• French Revolution, Napoleon & Congress of Vienna
• Industrialization
Exam Format:
• 40 Matching (1 point each=40 points total) (Part I-no outline allowed)
• 10 “Who am I?” (1 point each=10 points total) (Part I-no outline allowed)
• 50 Multiple Choice (1 point each=50 points total) (Part I-no outline allowed)
• 1 Essay (100 points) (Part II-outline allowed)
• Total= 200 points
What you can do between now and the end of classes: We will spend 2-3 days in class reviewing for
the exam. The more you have studied at that point, the more effective the review session/time will be to
you. You should be sure that you are not missing any notes, handouts, study sheets, etc. If you are missing
anything, check the website or ask a classmate whether you can copy their notes. At a minimum, between
now and the end of classes, I would suggest that you at least read over the essay question and begin
thinking about how you might outline it. If you are so inclined, I would also suggest pulling together
definitions for the terms on this review sheet from test/quiz review sheets.
Extra Help: I will be available for extra help as always during blocks 4, 5 and 7 or before/after school by
appointment.
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Key Terms
While I would not focus exclusively on terms, you should be familiar with all of the following terms:
Renaissance
Renaissance
Humanism
da Vinci
Secular
Medicis
Gutenberg
Reformation
Martin Luther
Anabaptists
Council of Trent
Act of Supremacy
Indulgences
Ignatius of Loyola
Predestination
The Inquisition
John Calvin
Henry VIII
Justification by Faith
Council of Trent
English Civil War
Magna Carta
Absolute Monarchy
Petition of Right
William Laud
James II
Glorious Revolution
Divine Right of Kings
Parliament
Ship Money
Cavaliers/Roundheads
Oliver Cromwell
Whigs/Tories
James I
Charles I
19 Propositions
Charles II
Constitutional Monarchy
Act of Settlement
The Scientific Revolution
Nicolas Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton
Johannes Kepler
William Harvey
Enlightenment
Voltaire
Baron de Montesquieu
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Locke
Mary Wollstonecraft
Thomas Hobbes
French Revolution
Louis XVI
March to Versailles
Great Fear
Reign of Terror
Tennis Court Oath
National Assembly
Maximilien Robespierre
Directory
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte
Battle of Waterloo
Battle of Trafalgar
Louis XVIII
Continental System
Battle of Austerlitz
The Napoleonic Code
The Burning of Moscow
Talleyrand/France
Tsar Alexander/Russia
Adam Smith
Communism
Tories/ Whigs
Laissez-faire
Congress of Vienna
Metternich/Austria
Castlereagh/Great Britain
Industrialization:
Enclosure Acts
Capitalism
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Estates General
Sans-culottes
Girondists
Jacobins
Key Questions and Concepts
Look through your notes and handouts from all of the units. You should familiarize yourself with
the following concepts and ideas: (Note: The following questions are drawn from the many review sheets you
have been given this year – they are not new questions.)
Renaissance
1. What were the causes of the Renaissance?
a. What factors came together to cause the Renaissance to start in Italy?
2. What were the effects of the Renaissance?
a. What were the major six art innovations during the Renaissance?
b. Why did the Renaissance spread?
c. How was the Northern Renaissance different than the South Renaissance?
Reformation
1. What were the causes of the Reformation?
a. Why were followers unhappy with the Catholic Church before the Reformation?
b. How did the Renaissance help to lead to the Reformation?
c. How was Martin Luther involved in the Reformation?
2. What were the effects of the Reformation?
a. What new religions and movements emerged?
b. What were the goals of the Counter-Reformation?
English Civil War
1. What was life like in England before the English Civil War?
a. What divisions existed in England before the English Civil War?
2. What caused the English Civil War to happen during the rule of Charles I?
a. What events led to the English Civil War and caused it to happen? (focus on the
political, economic and religious events)
3. What happened during the English Civil War? How did it end?
a. What groups of people joined each side? What was the significance of the English
people picking sides during the English Civil War?
4. What happened after the English Civil War in England?
a. What kind of government existed in England after the Civil War? Through what
chain of events did England go back to a monarchy?
b. What rights did the Bill of Rights guarantee? How was the Bill of Rights a reflection
of England’s past problems?
5. You should also be able to identify the different countries that make up the United
Kingdom and Great Britain on a map.
Scientific Revolution
1. What was the Scientific Revolution and when did it begin?
2. Who was threatened by the Scientific Revolution and why?
3. What is the Scientific Method? What was its impact?
4. What were the results of the Scientific Revolution? (ie what changes did it bring)?
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Enlightenment
1. What was the Enlightenment and when and why did it begin?
2. What were the core beliefs of the Enlightenment?
3. How did the Enlightenment spread?
French Revolution
1. What were the causes for revolt during the French Revolution?
2. What was the estates system? Who made up each estate and what power did they have
(if any)? Who was taxed?
3. What was the significance of the storming of the Bastille?
4. What rights were given to French citizens in the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
What conditions in France did it respond to?
5. Explain the political spectrum. What is left-wing? Right-wing? What side is pro-change?
Anti-change?
Napoleon
1. How did Napoleon rise to power?
2. How were the revolutionary reforms changed under Napoleon?
3. How did Napoleon build and defend his empire?
Congress of Vienna
1. What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna? (what were the guiding principles?)
2. What were lasting impacts of the Congress of Vienna?
Industrialization:
1. What was the Industrial Revolution? When did it happen?
2. Why did England experience the Industrial Revolution first?
3. What are the differences between the domestic system and the factory system?
4. What effects did the Industrial Revolution have on life in England?
5. What were conditions like for workers in factories?
6. What did England do to solve the problems that laissez-faire capitalism caused?
7. How did England change as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
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Part II: Essay
In Part II, you will be asked to write a full-length (five paragraph) exam essay. Below is the essay question you
will respond to on the exam. In preparation for the essay, you should create a ONE-SIDED, ONE-PAGE
OUTLINE for that essay question. You may use your outline only during the essay portion of the exam. You
will hand in the outline with your exam. On Google Classroom, there is an essay prep document to help you
prepare for making your outline.
There are certain requirements for this outline (if you do not meet these requirements, you will lose 10 points):
1. You may only write on ONE side of the paper (8.5” x 11”)
2. You may only write in outline form–you cannot have a pre-written essay. You may, however, write out
your thesis, topic sentences and primary source quotes. Otherwise, everything should be in note form
only.
3. If you choose to TYPE the outline, the font cannot be smaller than 12 point font, and the margins
must be at least 1 inch on all sides. If you choose to HANDWRITE your outline, you must single-space
it and maintain margins so as to be fair to those who choose to type.
I will be grading your essay on the following components:
1. The essay demonstrates careful preparation—utilizing specific references to specific examples and
quotes when appropriate (remember primary source quotes are good pieces of specific evidence!)
2. The essay is carefully organized in terms of topic and sequence, easy to follow, fairly well-written and
avoids use of casual language.
3. The essay has an introduction with a clear thesis statement and 3 body paragraphs, which include
information on at least THREE different units we covered this semester. Within each paragraph you
need at least TWO clear, detailed examples to support the main idea of the paragraph. In total,
your paper should have AT LEAST SIX SPECIFIC EXAMPLES to support your thesis.
4. The essay is supported with specific examples/historical evidence (quotes, statistics, etc.) that you use
to back up your main ideas.
Essay Question:
At the start of year (way back in September!), we started off by examining different types of power
(political, religious, economic, artistic, social, education and scientific/technological). As we have studied
England and France and their roles in European history from 1450-1900, we examined changes to all of
these categories of power within both countries. For your midterm essay, you will need to pick one of the
countries we have studied this term (either England or France) and three types of power (political,
religious, economic, artistic, social, education or scientific/technological) to answer the following question:
Between 1450 and 1850, how did power shift within England or France? What was the overall
impact of all these changes on that country?
You will write a five-paragraph essay answering this question. In each body paragraph, you will identify the
main players (individual leader, institutions, groups of people) who secured that specific power and who
lost that specific power. I have included a bit about the format below, my grading criteria and an outline for
you to layout your argument.
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Name:
Midterm Exam Essay Prep
You will write a five paragraph that answers the following prompt: Between 1450 and 1850, how did power
shift within England or France? What was the overall impact of all these changes on that country?
In preparation for the essay, you should create a ONE-SIDED, ONE-PAGE SET OF NOTES (OUTLINE FORM
ONLY) that essay question. You may use your outline during the essay portion of the exam. You will hand in the
outline with your exam.
Use the sheet below to begin preparing for the essay portion of the exam.
Introduction:
Country: France or England (pick ONE)
Introduce the time period, what was happening, etc. in Europe between 1450-1850
Thesis (answer the bolded question above):
Body Paragraph 1:
Unit: ______________________
Type of power:______________________
Topic sentence (what are you arguing in this paragraph?):
EVIDENCE (include at least 2 SPECIFIC, DETAILED examples to support your argument):
Who got the specific power, why & when:
Who lost the specific power:
Overall impact of this change in power:
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Body Paragraph 2:
Unit: ______________________
Type of power:______________________
Topic sentence (what are you arguing in this paragraph?):
EVIDENCE (include at least 2 SPECIFIC, DETAILED examples to support your argument):
Who got the specific power, why & when:
Who lost the specific power:
Overall impact of this change in power:
Body Paragraph 3:
Unit: ______________________
Type of power:______________________
Topic sentence (what are you arguing in this paragraph?):
EVIDENCE (include at least 2 SPECIFIC, DETAILED examples to support your argument):
Who got the specific power, why & when:
Who lost the specific power:
Overall impact of this change in power:
Conclusion: How did these power shifts impact Europe? SO what?
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