Acc World History 2011-2012
Mr. Burrell
Society in the Old Regime, Transatlantic Economy, Trade
Wars, & Colonial Rebellion
Objectives:
1. Describe the various privileges and powers of Europe’s aristocracies
2. Understand family structure and the typical family economy
3. Explain the transformation of Europe’s economy from agrarian to industrial and list the
various inventions which accompanied it
4. Explain the process of urbanization and its effects
5. Describe the various privileges and powers of Europe’s aristocracies
6. Understand family structure and the typical family economy
7. Explain the transformation of Europe’s economy from agrarian to industrial and list the
various inventions which accompanied it
8. Discuss the various mercantile economies which exist in Europe
9. Describe how slavery was seen as essential in the plantation economies
10. Understand the motivations for maintaining American colonies and the effects that their
separation had on European countries
Calendar:
Wed 10/19
Turn in CE#6
Unit III Exam- Multiple Choice
HW: Read Kagan pg. 480-488
Thu 10/20
The Agricultural Revolution
HW: Read Kagan pg. 488-493
Fri 10/21
The Industrial Revolution (Why England & Key Inventors)
HW: Read Kagan pg. 493-497
Mon 10/24
Compare Middle Ages to Old Regime (up to 18th century)
Mercantilism & the Old World Economics
HW: Read Kagan pg. 497-504
Finish Ch. 15 HW Pckt (Magic Score is 128)
Tue 10/25
Turn in Ch. 15 HW Pckt / HO Ch 16 HW Pckt
Begin Social Class Posters
HW: Read Kagan pg. 514-519
Finish CE#7
Wed 10/26
Turn in CE#7
Finish Social Class Posters
HW: Read Kagan pg. 519-523
Study Hall
Thu 10/27
18th Century Wars
HW: Read Kagan pg. 523-527 up to “Slavery and the Transatlantic...”
Fri 10/28
American Revolution- “The British Version”
HW:
Read Kagan pg. 473-475, 527-535 begin with “Slavery and the
Transatlantic...”
Mon 10/31
Gather information on Social Classes
Happy Halloween- Lets talk about Witchcraft
HW: Read Kagan pg. 535-542
Tue 11/1
Jeopardy Review
HW: Study for exam
Finish CE#8
Finish Ch. 16 HW Pckt
Sorry – No Study Hall this week 
Wed 11/2
Turn in CE#8
Turn in Ch. 16 HW Pckt
Unit IV Exam
Reminder for Notecards:
You should be continuing research on your sophomore project topic. Our final round of
notecards will be due on Nov. 14. You should have a total of at least 100 notecards and a minimum
of the following sources:
Regular Encyclopedia
Specialized Encyclopedia
Information Plus or Issues & Controversies
4 books
3 internet sources
Unit IV Review Sheet
Chapter 14- Continuing Superstition
Maleficium, sabbats, village origins of witchcraft, cunning folk, widows, midwives, healers,
ending of the hunts
Chapter 15- Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century
The Four Features of the Old Regime, sumptuary laws, British nobility, French Nobility,
nobles “of the sword”, nobles “of the robe”, hobereaux, taille, vingtieme, corvees, Eastern European
nobility, szlachta, Charter of the Nobility, “aristocratic resurgence”
Serfs, banalities, seigneur, robot, barshchina, cift, peasant rebellions, Pugachev’s Rebellion,
English Game Laws, higglers, poaching
Households of Northwestern Europe, nuclear family, neolocalism, servants, Eastern
European Households, Family economy, women & children
Agricultural Revolution, Dutch improvements, Jethro Tull, fallow, Charles “Turnip”
Townshend, crop rotation, Robert Bakewell, Arthur Young, Annals of Agriculture, enclosure,
population explosion, maize & the potato
Industrial Revolution, Consumption, Josiah Wedgewood, leadership of Great Britian,
domestic or putting out system, James Kay, flying shuttle, James Hargreaves, spinning jenny,
Richard Arkwright, water frame, Edmund Cartwright, power loom, James Watt, steam engine,
Thomas Newcomen, Matthew Boulton, John Wilkinson, charcoal, coke, Henry Cort, puddling, slag,
Priscilla Wakefield
Chapter 16- The Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion
Stages of European contact, Mercantile empires, goals of Mercantilism, practices, problems,
French-British rivalries, East India Company, Compagnie des Indies, factories
Spanish colonial system, Queen Isabella (r.1474-1504), viceroyalty, audiencias,
corregidores, Casa de Contraction(House of Trade) in Seville, Consulado, flota, system of Spanish
trade monopoly, reform under the Spanish Bourbon monarchs, Philip V(r. 1700-1746), Ferdinand
VI(r.1746-1759), Charles III(r.1759-1788), intendants, more viceroyalties, peninisulares, Creoles
Black African slavery, where did slaves come from, majority found in Brazil and West
Indies (sugar), triangular trade, Kongo wars, conditions of slave passage over the Atlantic,
seasoning, nations, daily life of a slave, Christian influence, European attitudes towards slavery
Treaty of Utrecht (1713), asiento, Portobello, Robert Jenkins, War of Jenkin’s Ear, War of
Austrian Succession, Frederick II seized Silesia, Maria Theresa and the Habsburg empire, France
and Great Britain enter the war, Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1744), “Diplomatic Revolution” (1756),
Convention of Westminster, Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), Frederick II invades Saxony, France
and Austria form alliance, Elizabeth of Russia dies in 1762, Tsar Peter III, treaty of Hubertusburg
(1763), William Pitt the Elder, Pitt’s focus for the war, Treaty of Paris(1763), effects and the
settlement of the Treaty
American independence, Sugar Act (1764), George Grenville, Stamp Act (1765), Sons of
Liberty, Declaratory Act, Charles Townshend, Townshend Duties, Lord North, Intolerable Acts,
Quebec Act, First Constitutional Congress. Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Commonwealthmen,
Thomas Gordon, Cato’s letter’s, George III (r. 1760-1820), John Wilkes, The North Briton,
Parliamentary Reform, Yorkshire Association Movement, William Pitt the Younger, implications of
the revolution
Unit IV: Guided Questions
Please remember, some of these guided questions may refer to material that we have already learned. Don’t expect to be
able to find all of the answers in a certain chapter. This is why they are called guided questions.
Chapter 14: Continuing Superstition
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4.
Describe the typical “ profile” of an accused witch.
Why was this profiled individual especial targeted?
What was the theological view of women in the 16c and 17c in Europe?
What was the importance of social and economic conditions in explaining the witchcraft
hysteria?
5. Why did the peasants experience increased economic and social difficulties at the end of
the 16c?
Chapter 15: Major Features of Life in the Old Regime- Ancient Regime
6. How was the 17c society organized? What were the possibilities for social mobility
among various social groups?
7. Contrast the interest and attitudes of common people – artisans, peasants, and workerswith those of their “ social betters” in the 18c.
8. How was traditional village life changing in the 17c? What were some of the forces of
that change?
9. Why did the peasants experience increased economic and social difficulties at the end of
the 16c?
Chapter 15: The Revolution of Agriculture
10. What were some of the results of the population increase in Europe in the 18c?
11. How did English farming become more productive during the 18c?
12. Why was the open- field system an inefficient way to engage in agricultural activities?
13. How did enclosure differ from the open- field system?
14. What was the impact of enclosure on large landowners? On poor tenant farmers? On the
English countryside?
15. How did serfdom differ in Prussia and the Hapsburg Empire from the rest of Eastern
Europe?
16. What obligations did the peasants have to their landlords? To their kings?
17. How was the economic status of the French peasants somewhat different from the
peasants in other Western Europe countries?
Chapter 15: The Industrial Revolution of the Eighteenth Century
18. Why had the putting-out system reached its organizational and technological limits by
the early 18c?
19. What new 18c inventions made the creation of the modern factory system possible?
20. What is the connection between industrialization and the enclosure movement?
Chapter 15: The Growth of Cities ( AP ONLY)
21. What were some of the characteristics of urban life in the 17c?
Chapter 16: Mercantilism, 18th Century Wars, Slavery & Trade
22. How was mercantilism an economic monopolistic system?
23. Why did the British win the French and Indian War?
24. What were the causes of the Seven Years’ War? What were the new political and
diplomatic realignments that took place before the war?
25. What were the results of the Seven Years’ War on the continent of Prussia? Austria?
26. What were the major components of the 1763 Treaty of Paris?
27. What role did slavery play in 18c global commercial activities?