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The Renaissance approx. 1300 ? 1525
POLITICAL
City States: No national government
Florence, Genoa, Venice
Some were rule by despots (Milan)
Others were controlled by condottieri, or military men who were independent war lords
Florence was a republic
In the later years of the Renaissance, these states warred with each other and left them prone ot
outside attack. This happened when Charles V?s troops attacked in 1527, thereby ending the
Renaissance in Italy.
AP European History Study Guide
The Renaissance
*The Causes of the Renaissance*
- The Middle Ages, which began around 500 AD, finally came to an end around 1450 AD.
- Though the beginning of the Renaissance, which signaled the end of the Middle Ages, occurred in the city-states of Italy, the same reasons that caused the Renaissance to begin in Italy caused it to appear in the rest of Western Europe.
- The conditions that led to the Renaissance in Italy are as follows:
Study Guide for Chapter 25
The Treaty of Versailles:
To Ratify or Reject?
Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key
Content Term listed below.
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Big Four
war-guilt clause
Treaty of Versailles
reservationists
irreconcilables
internationalists
Key Content Questions Consult History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals
and your reading notes to answer the following questions.
Study Guide for Chapter 24
The Home Front
Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. Women?s Peace Party
Committee on Public Information
Liberty Bonds
Great Migration
Espionage Act
Sedition Act
Wobblies
Schenck v. United States
Key Content Questions Consult History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals
and your reading notes to answer the following questions.
Identify the main ways in which people demonstrated their opposition to U.S. participation in World War I.
Study Guide for Chapter 23
The Course and Conduct
of World War I
Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key
Content Term listed below.
Selective Service Act
American Expeditionary Force
369th Regiment
convoy system
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
Key Content Questions Consult History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals
and your reading notes to answer the following questions.
1. How did the United States recruit and train the thousands of soldiers
needed to make a difference in the war?
Study Guide for Chapter 22
From Neutrality to War
Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below.
Central powers
Allied powers
U-boat
Lusitania
unrestricted submarine warfare
Sussex pledge
preparedness movement
Zimmerman note
Key Content Questions Consult History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals
and your reading notes to answer the following questions.
Explain how conditions in Europe caused an assassination to turn into a global conflict.
Study Guide for Chapter 20
The Spanish-American War
Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key
Content Term listed below.
Yellow journalism
USS Maine
Rough Riders
San Juan Hill
Anti-Imperialist League
Platt Amendment
Key Content Questions Consult History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals
and your reading notes to answer the following questions.
Study Guide for Chapter 14
Labor?s Response to Industrialism
Key Content Terms Define and explain the significance of each Key Content Term.
Working class
Child labor
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Haymarket Affair
Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike
Key Content Questions Consult History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals and your reading notes to answer the following questions.
Summarize the effects of industrialization on the living and working conditions of the working class.
Chapter 12 Study Guide
Key Content Terms (2 points each) Define and explain the significance of each Key
Content Term listed below.
Chisholm Trail
transcontinental railroad
Dawes Act
Homestead Act
Exodusters
Populist Party
Key Content Questions (3 points each) Consult History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals
and your reading notes to answer the following questions.
How did the growth of railroads affect the U.S. economy and geography?
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