1750-1900

What students are expected to know:

Major Developments

1. Questions of Periodization

Continuities and breaks; causes of changes from the previous period and within this period

2. Changes in global commerce, communications, and technology

Industrial Revolution (transformative effects on and differential timing in different societies;

mutual relation of industrial and scientific developments; commonalities)

Changes in patterns of world trade

3. Demographic and environmental changes (migrations; end of the Atlantic slave trade; new birthrate

patterns; food supply; medicine)

4. Changes in social and gender structure (Industrial Revolution; commercial and demographic

developments; emancipation of serfs/slaves; tension between work patterns and ideas about

gender; new forms of labor systems)

5. Political revolutions and independence movements; new political ideas

United States and Latin American independence movements

Revolutions (France, Haiti, Mexico, China)

Rise of nationalism, nation-states, and movements of political reform

Rise of democracy and its limitations: reform; women; racism

6. Rise of Western dominance (economic, military, political, social, cultural and artistic, patterns of

expansion; imperialism, colonialism, and neocolonialism) and different cultural and political

reactions (dissent; reform; resistance; rebellion; racism; nationalism; impact of changing

European ideologies on colonial administrations)

7. Patterns of cultural and artistic interactions among societies in different parts of the world

(African and Asian influences on European art; cultural policies of Meiji Japan)

8. Diverse interpretations

What are the debates about the causes and effects of serf and slave emancipation in this period,

and how do these debates fit into broader comparisons of labor systems?

What are the debates over the nature of women’s roles in this period? How do these debates

apply to industrialized areas, and how do they apply in colonial societies?

What are the debates over the causes of European / British technological innovation versus

development in Asia / China?

Major Comparisons and Analyses: Examples

Compare the causes and early phases of the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and Japan
Compare the Haitian and French Revolutions
Compare reaction to foreign interference in the Ottoman Empire, China, India, Southeast Asia and Japan
Compare nationalism in the following pairs: China and Japan, Egypt and Italy, Pan Africanism and the Indian Congress Movement
Explain forms of Western intervention in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia
Compare the roles and conditions of elite women in Latin America with those in Western Europe before 1850

Examples of the types of information students are expected to know contrasted with examples of what students are not expected to know for the multiple-choice section:

Causes of Latin American independence movements, but not specific protagonists
The French Revolution of 1789, but not the Revolution of 1830
Meiji Restoration, but not Iranian Constitutional Revolution
Boxer Rebellion, but not the Crimean War
Suez Canal, but not the Erie Canal
Muhammad Ali, but not Isma’il
Marxism, but not Utopian socialism
Social Darwinism, but not Herbert Spencer
Women’s emancipation movements, but not specific suffragists

	Created by scottpcoen over 10 years ago

Note on AP World History: 1750 - 1900: 'What Students Should Know', created by scottpcoen on 18/03/2014.