CLEP Western Civilization II case studies
CLEP Western Civilization II · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Western Civilization II is one of the subject examinations in the College Board's CLEP (College-Level Examination Program) family, which lets students earn college credit by demonstrating introductory-course knowledge on a standardized test rather than by sitting the course. This page is an independent study resource for candidates preparing for that exam; it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the College Board, and all official policies, fees, and score requirements must be confirmed directly with CLEP and with the college that would award credit. The CLEP Western Civilization II case studies are 5 cases and about 4,564 words.
1The Intendant, the Dragoons, and the Silk Weavers: Enforcing the Revocation
The intendant of the generality of Lyon must answer Versailles within three weeks. Since the revocation of the Edict of Nantes eleven months earlier, roughly 340 Protestant households - many of them master silk-weavers and dyers - have petitioned for passports to leave for Geneva and Amsterdam.
870 words, about 4 min2The Rector's Telescope: Newtonian Physics in a Jesuit College, 1749
The rector of a Jesuit college in a French provincial city of about 22,000 must settle the curriculum for the coming year. Enrollment has fallen from 240 to 180 in four years; the Oratorians opened a rival school in 1746 with a physics cabinet and a reputation for modern subjects.
906 words, about 5 min3The Lancashire Mill and the Four Inspectors: Judging the Factory Act of 1833
The owner of a Lancashire cotton-spinning mill with 780 hands - 236 of them under fourteen, 41 under ten - must decide how to respond to the Factory Act that took effect on 1 January. The Act bars children under nine from textile mills, limits those aged nine to thirteen to eight hours a day and 48 a week, requires two hours of daily schooling for them, and obliges the mill to hold a surgeon's certificate of age for every child.
952 words, about 5 min4Ending Passive Resistance: Berlin, September 1923
24 September 1923, Berlin. The cabinet must decide whether to abandon passive resistance in the Ruhr, now in its ninth month.
909 words, about 5 min5Prague, July 1947: The Marshall Plan Invitation and the Limits of Sovereignty
Prague, 9 July 1947. The Czechoslovak cabinet has already voted, on 4 July, to accept the Anglo-French invitation to the Paris conference on Marshall's aid offer.
927 words, about 5 min