AP World History: 1750 - 1900: 'What Students Should Know'

1750-1900What students are expected to know:Major Developments1. Questions of PeriodizationContinuities and breaks; causes of changes from the previous period and within this period2. Changes in global commerce, communications, and technologyIndustrial Revolution (transformative effects on and differential timing in different societies;mutual relation of industrial and scientific developments; commonalities)Changes in patterns of world trade3. Demographic and environmental changes (migrations; end of the Atlantic slave trade; new birthratepatterns; food supply; medicine)4. Changes in social and gender structure (Industrial Revolution; commercial and demographicdevelopments; emancipation of serfs/slaves; tension between work patterns and ideas aboutgender; new forms of labor systems)5. Political revolutions and independence movements; new political ideasUnited States and Latin American independence movementsRevolutions (France, Haiti, Mexico, China)Rise of nationalism, nation-states, and movements of political reformRise of democracy and its limitations: reform; women; racism6. Rise of Western dominance (economic, military, political, social, cultural and artistic, patterns ofexpansion; imperialism, colonialism, and neocolonialism) and different cultural and politicalreactions (dissent; reform; resistance; rebellion; racism; nationalism; impact of changingEuropean 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 interpretationsWhat 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 debatesapply to industrialized areas, and how do they apply in colonial societies?What are the debates over the causes of European / British technological innovation versusdevelopment 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

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