The midterm exam will be held in the lecture hall on Thursday, October 13.

You will have 50 minutes to complete the exam. Make sure to manage your time in order to complete the whole exam. The exam will not be given early for any reason.

Part I: Terms, Events, and People (20%)

Eight of these terms from the lecture outlines will appear on the exam. You will be asked to select and write an answer for five of them (Five questions at 4% each). For each term, event, or person listed below, you should be able to (1) identify (who, what, when, where) and (2) explain the significance of each (why, significance, so what?). Return to the lecture outlines, your lecture notes, and the textbook for review.

Versailles

The Parish Church

Serfdom

The Jefferson Bible

John Wesley

Essay on Population (1798)

Manchester

The Bastille

Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)

Robespierre

Toussaint L’Ouverture

The Civil Code

Congress of Vienna

Separate Spheres

Lyrical Ballads (1798)

Hungry Forties

Das Kapital (1867-)

Joseph Lister

James Clerk Maxwell

The Origin of Species (1859)

T. H. Huxley

Otto von Bismarck

The Subjection of Women (1869)

Metternich

Essay (80%)

Two of the following questions will appear on the exam. You will choose one and only one of those two to answer. Be as detailed as possible, and also be sure to answer all parts of the question. You must provide specific examples from lecture, the textbook, and the primary sources when appropriate to make your points (this does not need to be in the form of verbatim quotes). Be sure to make explicit connections between your evidence and the larger point(s) that you are discussing. The purpose of the essay is not to show breadth of knowledge, but to demonstrate that you can argue about the significance and meaning of historical information.

1. For a person living in an area affected by industrialization before 1860, what were the two greatest benefits of the industrial revolution?  What were the two greatest disadvantages?  On the whole, was the Industrial Revolution a good or a bad thing?

2. Choose three ideals of the eighteenth century Enlightenment. In what ways can you see the influence of these ideals at work in the achievements of the French revolutionaries and Napoleon?

3. Which ideas of the Romantic movement in art and literature did people find the most interesting, exciting, and attractive? Why?

4. In what ways did Napoleon consolidate the achievements of the French Revolution?  In what ways did he undermine them?  Was the overall impact of his rule to undermine them or to consolidate them?

5. Nineteenth century conservatives found many social and intellectual changes deeply threatening.  Choose two of the following and explain in detail why a conservative would object:  romanticism, liberalism, socialism, secularism, industrialization, votes for women.  Discuss whether or not their fears were justified.

6. Why were slavery and serfdom abolished in the western world, despite their enormous social and economic importance?

7. As industrial capitalism generated unprecedented levels of wealth, its critics multiplied.  What were the strongest criticisms of capitalism?  The weakest?

8. The Christian churches of Europe faced new internal and external challenges in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the French revolution, Liberalism, Biblical criticism, Natural History, Social Darwinism, Positivism, and Marxism. Choose three of these, and explain how they challenged European religion.

9. Explain how German unification changed the balance of power established at the Congress of Vienna.