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Revolutions

Driving Question: How did people transform the political systems under which they lived, and were these changes felt equally around the world and within communities?

Revolutionary ideas emerged as individuals began to feel social and political inequalities. Enlightenment thinkers played a crucial role in shaping those revolutionary ideas. The combination of new thinking, economic inequality, and political grievances sparked movements that toppled kings and built a world of nation-states.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Analyze the roles sovereignty, individualism, and equality played in political revolutions.
  2. Use the course frames to evaluate how revolutions reshaped human communities in the long nineteenth century.
STEP 1

Opener: Revolutions

As you may have guessed from its title, this unit is all about revolutions. So what is a revolution? Look at some revolutionary song lyrics to consider the definition.

STEP 2

Looking Ahead

STEP 3

Revolutions: 1750 to 1914

New ideas can spark new hopes and dreams for the future. In the late eighteenth century, revolutionary visions aimed to transform social, economic, and political structures.

Unit 4 Overview External link

In response to changing economic conditions and new ideas, people revolted against old political systems and imagined a new future.

Key Ideas

As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.
STEP 4

Framing Unit 4

This video and activity will help us use the frames to evaluate the causes and effects of political and national revolutions during the long nineteenth century.

Unit 4 Frames External link

The emergence of the nation-state dramatically changed the kinds of communities in which people lived, but empires and other kinds of states remained important.

Key Ideas

As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.
STEP 5

Closer: Revolutions

Extension Materials
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Essay Review: Analysis and Evidence

A great way to improve your own writing skills is to evaluate writing samples. In this activity, you’ll use your own writing or a sample essay to evaluate the use of analysis and evidence.