In response to changing economic conditions and new ideas about sovereignty, people revolted against old political systems and created new ones.

The Long Nineteenth Century was a period of epic political change. Ideas like the nation-state, sovereignty, and liberalism led to revolutions with enduring effects.

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.

Orient yourself in time and space as you begin Unit 2, by using maps to make predictions about the revolutionary changes you will learn about in this unit.

A full-color political map of the world in 1750 CE, highlighting the major states, communities, and cities you’ll learn about in WHP.

A black and white version of the world in 1750 CE, that can be cropped to specific regions and easily printed.

More personalized vocab, this time for Unit 2. Students will add to it throughout the era.

Back to the full class word wall, this time for Unit 2 vocabulary.

This vocab guide provides a summary of the key vocabulary for the unit.

Vocab cards for each of the key words in this unit.

It’s time to explore the Unit 2 Problem. Remember: you’ll have a chance to return to this worksheet at the end of the unit when you have more evidence!

Learning to read and evaluate charts is an important skill. This guide will be a useful reference as you encounter different charts in this course.

This activity introduces students to the Three Close Reads for Data tool by providing step-by-step instructions as they read the first Data Exploration on population.

There are a lot of humans living on the planet today. But for most of our history, our population was much smaller. Demography provides one window into our shared history.

They look and sound similar, and they share similar meanings. So what is the difference between revolution and evolution?

This video is one explanation for the changing views of the world that led to new ideas about politics and eventually to political revolutions and nationalism.

Reading historical documents is more than just understanding words on a page. Here, with the help of the HAPPY tool, you’ll dive into the skill of sourcing.

The Enlightenment was a movement, a culture, and a passion for understanding. But it didn't include everyone, and not everyone agreed about how revolutionary it should be.

Analyzing quotes from Enlightenment thinkers not only helps us understand that moment in time, it also helps us see how Enlightenment ideas impact the world today.

Paris in 1750 was a mix of old and new. Nothing shows this more than the Encyclopedia, which collected how things were done and proposed new visions for the future.

Did Enlightenment philosophy inspire revolutionary thinking? Use the Quick-Sourcing Tool to assess the sources in this collection to find out!

Did Enlightenment philosophy inspire revolutionary thinking? The primary sources in this collection will help you respond to this question.

Sovereignty is the idea that people can govern themselves. This may sound obvious, but it actually was a pretty revolutionary idea to most people in 1750.

The “father of modern conservatism” was a British political figure and philosopher who was an important leader of the liberal transformation of the eighteenth century.

How do we decide who to believe? Who can we consider “authority”? And what does Taylor Swift have to do with figuring out when and where the Enlightenment began?

New ideas may have provided a framework for revolution and nationalism, but there were concrete reasons why enslaved people, peasants, and the middle classes wanted change.

Causal maps are a great tool to track causes and consequences. In this activity students will apply their understanding of revolutions to a causal map.

Explore the melodic side of revolutions in this short opening activity.

An era of political revolutions swept the Atlantic world, each unique but all connected, and some more revolutionary than others.

Was West Africa as “revolutionary” in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as all those other revolutions that were taking place? This article argues it was!

The Haitian Revolution defeated the French Empire, abolished slavery, and shook the foundations of the Atlantic slave economy. But the struggle didn’t end there.

What makes someone “revolutionary”? Learn more about the women throughout history who have fought for change.

Manuela Sáenz was a Latin American woman who strove to reconcile feminism with support for revolution. She and her compatriots Jonotas and Natan were spies and revolutionaries.

In 1680, Pueblos in Nuevo México revolted against their Spanish colonizers. It was the first successful revolt against European colonialism in the United States.

A dash of unrest here, a sprinkle of bad harvests there, tossed in with some new ideas… boom, you’ve got yourself a revolution!

Anger over taxation and Enlightenment ideas about liberty helped cause the American Revolution. But in the new republic, liberty was unevenly distributed.

The French Revolution changed the world. Political inequality and expensive bread inspired people to overthrow the king. But things quickly got out of control.

For 300 years, Latin America had been ruled by the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. In the early nineteenth century, a racially diverse revolution erupted across the region.

We talk a lot about testing claims in this course, but you also need to learn how to make claims. Oh, and don’t forget the evidence!

Zoom in to a personal scale in this activity to think about identity. This will set the stage for examining developments in identity that led to nationalism in this unit.

As the influence of traditional sources of authority declined, people looked for a new way to identify themselves. In the Long Nineteenth Century, many turned to nationalism.

Nationalism has been the most impactful ideology of the modern world. It has allowed mass cooperation and produced mass violence. Is it good or bad?

In this final vocab activity of the unit, students move beyond simply defining words to applying them, therefore solidify their understanding and use of the words in context.

This vocab guide provides a summary of the key vocabulary for the unit.

Vocab cards for each of the key words in this unit.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, dozens of conflicts erupted across a world that had been connected by colonialism and industrialization. Coincidence? Not so much.

What's the gist? What info is here and why does it matter? Use Three Close Reads to dive into the article!

Our sense of responsibility to our community often shifts depending on what scale we are talking about.

Histories of nations and nationalism is very personally relatable… if you’re a famous man. Let’s take the point of view of one of the countless women history has forgotten.

In the nineteenth century, nationalism enflamed passions all across Europe. The Prussia minister, Otto von Bismarck, used these passions to build a German nation-state.

In many multi-ethnic empires, people discovered their ethnicities and embraced nationalism in the nineteenth century as opportunities to achieve independence.

Rifa’a al-Tahtawi was an Egyptian scholar and imam who traveled to France in the nineteenth century. Upon his return, he wrote a book reconciling Islam and modern science.

How did political revolutions impact communities and networks? Use the Quick-Sourcing Tool to assess the primary sources in this collection to find out!

How did political revolutions impact communities and networks? The primary sources in this collection will help you formulate a response to this question.

How has your understanding changed since the beginning of the unit? Time to revisit the Unit Notebook!

In the nineteenth century, nationalism erupted all over the place. Old empires collapsed and new nations rose. John Green explains how this process played out in Japan.

It’s time review the map predictions you made at the beginning of the unit, and examine a series of new maps to help you think about the unit problem.

A full-color political map of the world in 1750 CE, highlighting the major states, communities, and cities you’ll learn about in WHP.

A full-color thematic map of Empires, Enslavement, and Revolutions in 1750 CE, meant to help you support, extend, and challenge the frame narratives.

It’s difficult to write something when you’re not sure what you’re being asked to do! This is the first in a series of activities in which you’ll practice analyzing prompts.

Before you can write a good claim, you need to know how to find one! In this activity, you’ll use the Writing Rubric to evaluate the claim and focus of an essay from the course.

In this Warm-Up activity, you’ll look closely at the Claim and Focus row of the WHP Writing Rubric to fine tune your writing skills.

Revolutions don't just start out of nowhere. Analyze documents to help you understand and evaluate the origins of political revolutions of the long nineteenth century.

These DBQ writing samples provide example essays to help support writing instruction in different ways—use as you see fit in your classroom!

Now that you’ve written, it’s time to revise! This activity will help you identify areas to improve your writing based on the Claim and Focus row of the WHP Writing Rubric.

Between 1775 and 1825 several revolutions occurred around the Atlantic Ocean, all influenced by Enlightenment ideas and provoked by economic problems.

Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French and conquered much of Europe. Did he end the French Revolution, or put its principles into action?

Scholars explaining the roots of the American Revolution often look to centuries of English democratic traditions. Are they right?

So by now you know that revolution = big change. Which of the revolutions you’ve studied in this unit caused the greatest enduring change for the most people?