Essay Questions:
Answer each exam question with a well-designed essay. The exam is open book, open notes.
1. The age of industrialization introduced a machine-driven world that radically altered family life.
What transformations occurred once factories organized life and work? How did these changes
affect men, women, and children?
2. What were the economic and ideological causes of the American, the French, and the Haitian
Revolutions? Compare and contrast the outcomes of the American, the French, and the Haitian
revolutions.
3. Trace the development of imperialism in Oceania beginning in the late 18th century and
continuing through the 19th century? How did indigenous peoples respond to the arrival of
European and American traders, missionaries, and settlers?
4. How did the arrival of American forces prompt change in Japan during the mid-1800s? In what
ways did the Japanese respond?