Thanksgiving Reading Assignment for AP :)
Chapter 15: Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the 18th Century
Tradition! Tradition! Tradition!
Aristocracy
- Status of British nobility
- Status of French nobility
- Status of Eastern European Nobility
aristocratic resurgence
status of peasants and surfs
obligations of peasants
- seigneur
- robot
- barshchina
peasant rebellions
- Pugachev’s Rebellion
English Game Laws
family structures in europe
- Northwestern Europe
- Eastern Europe
- economics of family
- economics of women
- economics of children
Agricultural Revolution
- kicking ag old school
- Cornelius Vermuyden
- Jethro Tull
- Charles Townsend
- Robert Blakewell
- Arthur Young
- enclosure movement
- ag in Eastern Europe
population boom
Industrial Revolution (well, the first one…)
- expansion of consumer goods
- factoring surrounding the change in industrial methods
- Great Britain as IR leader
- changes in textile production
- Spinning Jenny
- Water Frame
- Steam Engine
- Iron
- women and the IR
growth of cities in Europe
- growth of cities, capitals and ports
- expansion of small towns
- urban lifestyle
- upper classes
- middle class
- artisans
- urban riots
- expansion of Jewish ghettos
Chapter 16: Transatlantic Economy, Trade Wars and Colonial Rebellion
Expansion of imperial empires
mercantilism
growth of the British-French rivalry
- West Indies
- East Indies
Spanish colonial system
peninsulares
creoles
Transatlantic slavery
- existence of Africans in the Americas
- the sugar economy
- expansion of sugar plantations
- expansion of slavery
- economics of slavery
- impact of slavery
- language
- culture
- daily life of slaves
- slaves and religion
- racial politics in Europe
War of Jenkins’ Ear
War of Austrian Succession
- Maria Theresa and Habsburg Europe
- British entrance into the war
“Diplomatic Revolution”
Seven Years’ War
- William Pitt
- Treaty of Paris
The American Revolution (please read over this section; details aren’t required)
Great Britain in the 18th Century
- George III
- John Wilkes
- parliamentary reforms
- Yorkshire Association Movement
- Impact of the American Revolution on Great Britain and Europe
