Monday, March 31, 2014

Chapter 35 sections 1 and 2 questions

2.) It was Napoleon's empire was to take the place of the Holy Roman Empire.

3.) They kept retreating further into Russia and burned their villages and food supplies so the French wouldn't have anything. Hungry and without shelter, 500,000 of the French soldiers froze to death in the Russian winters.


2.) They wanted to build a peaceful and stable Europe, and they believed the best way was to give all the countries equal power. They were against democracy and brought back divine-right monarchy.

3.) Universal male suffrage spread to most northern and western European countries, workers who felt cheated began to form political parties, and soon, there was a socialist party in almost every European country.

Friday, March 21, 2014

understanding main ideas 1-6

1.) 1400s, they broke away from old ideas
     1500s, they learned that the earth was no the center of the universe
     1600s, Newton explained the theory of gravitation and how objects move through space

2.) More food meant longer lives and better health, the population increased and the demand for manufactured goods grew.


3) It allowed horse-drawn wagons to use the roads in all weathers and increase travel speeds.

4) Schools, orphanages, and hospitals were opened for the poor,  trade unions were made legal, children under 10 and women were prohibited from working in mines, work days were cut down to 10 hours. They also got better living conditions. Public sewer systems and better houses, every room had at least one window, every house had piped-in water, there were fewer epidemics, and clothing, food, and other products became cheap enough for the working class to afford.

5) Electricity, gasoline, the engine, and diesel engine.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

chapter 33 questions

Chapter 33 questions 1-2 on pg. 525

1. He invented the telescope and began to study the stars and planets. he learned that the moon's surface is not smooth but has mountains and craters. he learned that the Milky Way holds a cast number of stars and that the sun rotates on its axis. Galileo was strongly criticized by the Roman Catholic Church teaching that Earth revolves around the sun. Even so, Galileo's ideas spread throughout Europe.

2. Because the technology for today's rockets and space satellites is based on his work. 

Chapter 33 questions 2-3 on pg. 530

2. With the assembly line work could be divided, and many products could be put together at one time by unskilled workers. All of these discoveries and new techniques greatly increased production.

3. Because Raw materials and finished products had to be moved quickly and cheaply.

chapter 32 questions 1-6

1.) They wanted to be able to worship as they pleased, They beleived in hard work and plain living and did not like the Crown's free-spending ways.

2.) Because the change in monarchs took place without a shot being fired.

3.) The Stamp Act

4.) Angry Mobs formed in many cities. Tax officials were threatened, and stamps were destroyed. People through out the colonies decided to boycott British goods.

5.) Before the Revolution the French King had the most power. Later French became a republic and the people had kind of a Democracy. They could decide which government they wanted.

6.) They were afraid that these ideas would weaken  their own power.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

chapter 32 pg. 508 questions 2-4

2. Once again, Charles I accepted the laws Parliament passed and then disregarded them.

3. James II made many Roman Catholics have high power in the army and government. Next, he tried to repeal the Act of Habeas Corpus, a law stating that you couldn't go to jail without being charged with something. So Parliament offered the throne to his Protestant daughter.

4. The England Declaration of Rights stated that the Crown couldn't tax people or keep an army in peacetime without Parliament's consent.

Friday, March 14, 2014

chapter 32 1-5 questions

2.) First was the clergy, second was the nobility, third was everyone else in France.
3.) They issued the Declaration of the rights of Man and the Citizen.
4.) The people of France had grown more conservative.
5.) In Paris mobs began to form. On July 14, 1789 a mob in search of weapons attacked and captured the Bastille. This was an old fort used as a prison. To the mob it was a symbol of the tyranny or unjust use of power, of the monarchy. The mob then killed the mayor of paris and set up a new city government.
           News of what happened in Paris spread. In the countryside, there were rumors that the nobles were planning to hire brigands, or roving bandits, to destroy the peasants' homes and crops. so the peasants attacked and burned the house of the nobles and destroyed all records of feudal dues.