His 3110, Mid-Term Review, 1660-1783 (exam changed to Feb. 17) [3 exam booklets each turned in by Thurs., 10 Feb.]

Part I short answer, id, and multiple choice [Be able to define the terms below] (40%).

1660-1714: Bucholz and Key, Early Modern England, pp. 288-301; and Willcox, ch. 1; ch. 2 (skip "England and Scotland," "Administration and Politics in Wartime")

–Test Act, Exclusion Crisis, Jacobite, Whig, Tory,

–William and Mary, the Protestant Wind, Bill of Rights, Battle of the Boyne, Toleration Act,

–Act of Settlement, Treaty of Utrecht, War of the Spanish Succession, Duke and Duchess of Malborough, Financial Revolution, Bank of England,

–party politics (Whigs vs. Tories), Dissenters (sectaries), Church of England (Anglicanism), Court vs. Country, High and Low Church.

1714-1760: Willcox, ch. 3 (especially through “The Farmers,” 49-63), ch. 4 (all, but skip section on "Local Government"); ch. 9 (through “Prerequisites”)

–entail, enclosure, crop rotation, London, Poor Law,

–Hanover, George I, George II, Sir Robert Walpole, Jacobite, South Sea Bubble, management,

–Robinocracy or Old Corps Whigs (corruption or political stability?), the Pelhams (Henry and the Duke of Newcastle), blue water policy vs. Hanoverian interests, asiento and war of Jenkin’s Ear and the war of the Austrian Succession, Jacobite risings of 1715 (Riot Act and Septennial Act) and 1745, the unreformed House of Commons (franchise, composition, pocket and rotten boroughs).

1760-1783: Willcox, chs. 5 (especially from “War of the Austrian Succession” to the end, 112-30), 7, 8, & 9

–William Pitt the Elder, Lord Bute, John Wilkes, Hessians, George III, Declaratory Act (1766),

–Lord North, Gordon Riots, Lord Shelburne, Treaty of Paris (1783),

–private acts of Parliament, East India Company, India Act

Part II matching politicians and monarchs [James II, William and Mary, Duke and Duchess of Malborough, Anne, George I, Sir Robert Walpole, William Pitt the Elder, Lord Bute, John Wilkes, George III, Lord North, Lord Shelburne] with achievements (20%).

Part III (40%) Write one essay comparing two short passages out of several selected from: Key and Bucholz, Sources and Debates, pp. 258-64 & 280-7 (handout: House of Commons Debates the Lords’ Amendments to the Declaration of Rights, February 5, 1688; The Bill of Rights, 1689; The Toleration Act, 1689); BLAKELEY, docs. 6, 9, 15 (The Hat Act, 1732, and the Iron Act, 1750, William Hogarth, Prints, 1725-1763, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 1770); docs. 14, 16 (William Pitt, Speech in Commons, 1766, The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America, 1776); docs. 17, 19, 20, 25, 26 (Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776, James Ogden, A Description of Manchester, 1783, Archeology and the Industrial Revolution, An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices, 1802). Explain, compare and contrast the writers' argument and intention, the particular historical era or crisis indicated by the document, and, if possible, any particular biases of the writer or holes in his or her argument. Focus on the passages cited.