4e History : American revolution

To revise : American Revolution

Dates to know:

1773 : Boston tea party

4^th July 1776 : Declaration of Independence

1776-1783 : American Revolution (or ‘war of independence)

1778 : Alliance between France and the USA

1781 : Battle of Yorktown

1783 : Treaty of Paris

1787 : American Constitution

1789 : Washington elected president of the USA

People to know :

Washington, La Fayette, Franklin, Louis XVI

What you must be able to explain :

-           What were the "13 colonies" (location, origins of the people, ...)

      Why did the Americans revolt against the British ?

-          The human rights according to the Declaration of Independence

-          Why did France play a key role in the American Revolution ?

-          The differences branches in the American constitution -who is in charge / How they are chosen / What their powers are / length of time of their mandates

VVocabulary :

C    Constitution, executive branch, legislative branch, judicial branch, a term, president, vice president, congress, secretaries, House of Representatives, Senates, senators, Supreme court, justices, 

4e : Chapter 2 : World trade

What you must remember

Case study : the Ipod : itinerary from Shenzhen to New York
Explain the different mean of transport (advantages and disadvantages) + transport in containers ==> in order to ease the transshipment
Share of the price (components, assembling, transport, design, marketing)

World trade today :
- growth of the World trade since 1960
Different types of products exported and their share in the total (agricultural goods, oil and minerals, manufactured goods) + evolution since 1960
- the most important areas for world trade : Asia and Pacific, North America, Europe

World map :
- names of the continents and the oceans and their location
- strategic seaways : location of the different straits and canals

What you must be able to do :
- to describe the itinerary of a boat
- to read a graph and to make a comentary about it

vocabulary : GDP

4e ; Chapter 1 : revolutions in England during the 17th century

Stuart England: How did England become a limited monarchy?

Important dates :

1642 : beginning of the Civil War

1649 : trial and execution of Charles I + beginning of the Commonwealth

1653 : Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth

1658 : Oliver Cromwell’s death

1660 : Restoration

1679 : the Habeas Corpus Act

1688 : Glorious revolution

1689 : Bill of Rights + Toleration Act

+ The dates of the reign of the kings or the queens of England from 1603 to 1714

What you must be able to explain :

-          Why there was a Civil war from 1642 to 1649.

-          Why monarchy was restored in 1660.

-          What is the Habeas Corpus about.

-          Why there was a revolution in 1688 and why it is called ‘the Glorious revolution’.

-          What is the Bill of rights about.

-          Who were Newton, Halley, Hooke.