Unit XII:

Chapter 24 Industry, Empire and Everyday Life, 1870-1890

Chapter 25 Modernity and the Road to War, 1890-1914

 

 

Resources

Blank Note Sheet

Chapter Review Sheet

Essays

 

Objectives:

  1. Analyze how governments, businesses, and individuals responded to economic instability

  2. Outline the consequences of imperialism on Africa and Asia

  3. Describe how relations changed between workers and employers and between male and female workers

  4. Describe the cause of the rise of leisure time and compare and contrast the activities that each class participated in

  5. Evaluate how Social Darwinism shaped Europeans’ view of their society and their response to perceived problems in it

  6. Analyze the major trends in population and identity in the late 19th century

  7. Describe the changes in science, philosophy and art and evaluate how they reflected an age of new thinking

  8. Identify how women, minorities, and labor groups protested their conditions

  9. Summarize the factors that brought about the shift toward independence in colonies

  

Imperialism

 

Social and Cultural Changes

 

Political Changes

 

 Topic A: The Advance of Industry

  1. Industrial Innovation 917-920

  2. Facing Economic Crisis  920-921

  3. Revolution in Business Practices 921-924

 Topic B: The New Imperialism

  1. Taming the Mediterranean 924-925

  2. Scramble for Africa 925-928

  3. Acquiring Territory in Asia 928-930

  4. Japan’s Imperial Agenda 930-931

  5. The Paradoxes of Imperialism 931-933

 Topic C: European Imperialism Contested

  1. The Trials of Empire 985-988.

  2. The Russian Empire Threatened  988-990

  3. Growing Resistance to Colonial Domination  990-992

 

Topic A: The Transformation of Culture and Society

  1. The “Best” Circles and the Expanding Middle Class 933-936

  2. Professional Sports and Organized Leisure 936-937

  3. Working People’s Strategies 937-939

  4. Reform Efforts for Working-Class People 939-942

  5. Artistic Responses to Industrial and Imperial Change 942-945

 Topic B: Private Life in the Modern Age

  1. Population Pressure 961-964

  2. Reforming Marriage 964-965

  3. New Women, New Men, and the Politics of Sexual Identity  965-966

  4. Sciences of the Modern Self  966-970

 Topic C: Modernity and the Revolt in Ideas

  1. The Challenge to Positivism 970-971

  2. Revolutionizing Science  971-972

  3. Modern Art  972-974

  4. Musical Iconoclasm 974-975

 

 Topic A: The Birth of Mass Politics

  1.  Workers, Politics, and Protest 945-947

  2.  Expanding Political Participation in Western Europe 947-950

  3. Power Politics in Central and Eastern Europe 950-954

 

Topic B: Growing Tensions in Mass Politics

  1.  Labor’s Expanding Power 976-977

  2.  Rights for Women and the Battle for Suffrage 977-978

  3.  Liberalism Modified 979-980

  4.  Anti-Semitism, Nationalism, and Zionism in Mass Politics  980-985

 
 		  

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