Saturday, December 20, 2008

Review terms and essay questions

Greetings students,

Here is Ms. Christmas's list of review terms as well as the essay questions for the students in the foreign languages college.

best,
Conrad

Final Exam for English-Speaking Countries’ Society and Culture

1. Divine Right of Kings
Magna Carta
War of the Roses
Tudors
Queen Elizabeth I
Spanish Armada
Mercantilism
Stuarts
English Civil War
Glorious Revolution
Bill of Rights
Hanovers
2. Seven Years’ War
American Revolution
Queen Victoria I
Opium Wars
Sepoy Mutiny
Scramble for Africa
Suez Canal
Fashoda Incident
Second Boer War
World War I
3. Charles Darwin
Herbert Spencer
Social Darwinism
4. William Shakespeare
Sonnet
Romantic Era Poetry
Charles Dickens
Victorian Era Novels
5. British Invasion
Rolling Stones
M.I.A.
The Clash
The Beatles
Punk Music
6. Hudson Bay Company
Quebec
Welfare State
Nunavut
7. Hinduism
Mahatma Gandhi
Outsourcing
8. Indigenous Australians
Australian Wildlife
9. Statute of Westminister
Nuclear Weapons
10. Laissez-Faire
Capitalism
Gilded Age
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
John Pierpont Morgan
Progressive Era
Great Depression
Warren Buffet
11. John Locke
Federalism
Separation of Church and
State
Checks and Balances
Electoral College
12. Catholicism
Protestant Reformation
Puritans
Pilgrims
Quakers
Second Great Awakening
Mormons
Protestant Work Ethic
Evangelicals
Intelligent Design
13. Three-Fifths
Compromise
Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation
Indian Wars
Crazy Horse
Transcontinental Road
Chinese Exclusion Act
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
14. Isolationism
Domino Effect
Unilateralism
15. Globalization
Sweatshops
Free Trade Agreements

Essay Questions
1) Compare and contrast the treatment of indigenous groups in two of the following countries: Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and/or the United States.
2) Discuss three ways in which English language and culture has spread throughout the world.
3) Discuss the social, cultural, and political characteristics of the Victorian Era in the British Empire.
4) Discuss the social, economic, and political influences of Protestantism on American history.
5) Discuss the significance of China and Chinese people in the past and present of three different English-speaking countries.

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