The era from 1750 to 1900 was certainly revolutionary! Political and industrial revolutions led to significant changes in all aspects of life.

The period from 1750 to 1900 is often called an age of revolution. New political systems, industrialization, and societal changes all shaped our modern world.

Orient yourself in time and space as you begin Unit 5, by using maps to make predictions about industrialization and urbanization in the long nineteenth century.

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.

An individualized tracker for new words encountered in Unit 5. Add to it as the unit progresses.

In Unit 5, continue the routine of building a class word wall, an important visual cue and literacy support.

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

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

What themes will be featured in this unit? Evaluate the statements and try your best to figure it out!

Children have always worked. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, reform movements sought to limit this labor, but even today 265 million children still work.

A dictionary definition isn’t much help when trying to grasp the important concept of sovereignty. But understanding how radically it changed people’s personal and political lives is a good start.

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.

The Enlightenment was a period in history named not for its battles, but for its ideas. Still, the intellectual and cultural changes it introduced certainly contributed to many political revolutions around the world.

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.

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.

The world changed at the end of the eighteenth century. People took to the streets to protest their material conditions. One revolution shook the foundations of the capitalist world economy.

Did Enlightenment philosophy inspire revolutionary thinking? Use your quick-sourcing skills to assess primary sources and formulate a response.

It would be a mistake to think that Enlightenment ideas pointed everyone in the same direction. These primary sources shed light on how new notions of liberty were interpreted.

Revolutions can be contagious. In five short decades from 1775 to 1825, several revolutions in the Americas and Europe brought down the colonial system and European monarchies that had been profiting from it.

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.

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

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

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.

As the influence of traditional source 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 activity, students are asked to take context clues to help them figure out a vocabulary word from this unit in order to strengthen their understanding.

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.

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.

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!

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

This activity will introduce students to the concept of urbanization, both as a shift in demographics and as a shift in the physical environment resulting from the rise of industrialization.

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin? There are big debates surrounding this question, and these debates tell us a lot about both history and the present.

During the long nineteenth century, Britain had several advantages that allowed it to industrialize first. What were they? Nick Dennis travels to England to mine for answers.

Abundant fossil fuels like coal led to innovative machines, like engines. These inventions launched an era of accelerated change that continues to transform human society.

It’s time to make some more claims! This time industrialization is the focus.

All aboard! Learn how trains changed how humans understood travel and work. It’s trains not TARDIS, but they transformed our ideas about time and space.

They sound similar, and they share similar meanings. So what is the difference between technology and innovation?

The Industrial Revolution transformed life in Britain. But the transformation of the British economy had consequences for people in every corner of the world.

In 1793, the global economy was centered in East and South Asia, not in Europe. The British embassy led by Lord Macartney wanted to change that. He failed.

The arrival of American warships in 1853 destabilized Japan’s political system and launched a transformation that made Japan into a major world power in less than 25 years.

A petty samurai by birth, Iwasaki Yatarō seized the opportunities of industrialization to create the Mitsubishi corporation and to help industrialize the city of Nagasaki.

In this activity, you’ll examine the similarities and differences between how Egypt and Japan industrialized.

The modernization of Japan can best be expressed in the following haiku: You threaten us with Industrialization? We can win that game.

During the nineteenth century, Egypt became a major producer of cotton and started building an industrialized economy. But Egypt’s industrialization failed. Why?

How did India go from producing clothing, to producing cotton? Doing business with Britain seemed like a good idea at the time, but it led to India’s de-industrialization.

Explore pre- and post-industrialization images to identify changes and continuities over time.

Gain insight into two economic systems that will play a big role in this unit. More importantly, get some treats while you’re at it!

Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution each contributed to the growth of the other. But their combined effects created socialism as people struggled to respond to changes.

Social class was not new to this time period. However, industrialization led to a new social class structure that created extreme divisions between the rich and the poor.

The Industrial Revolution and capitalism helped to create a whole new class of people. The proletariat were urban workers who had nothing to sell but their own labor.

What did it feel like to work on an assembly line in the 1800s? Why did business owners prefer assembly lines? Explore these questions AND make some greeting cards!

Ottilie Baader became a leader of the German labor reform movement, but she also lived a life of work, not unlike many industrial workers of her time.

Slaving and slavery existed alongside capitalism. But were they rival economic systems, or did they support each other?

Harriet Forten Purvis was an African-American woman who fought against slavery while pioneering the struggle for women’s suffrage.

Industrialization and the rise of the proletariat created a lot of social problems. But it also helped launch a lot of attempts to solve those problems.

In this activity, you will analyze Ottoman and Qing primary sources to understand different responses to industrialization and imperialism.

The idea of childhood did not always exist. How did industrialization change ideas of childhood and child labor?

Work, school, or being ignored—what is a modern child to do? That’s what reformers wanted to know.

How did the revolutions of this era impact politics, economics, society, and culture? Use the Quick-Sourcing Tool to analyze the documents to find out!

How did the revolutions of this era impact the themes of governance, economic systems, social interactions, and cultural developments? The primary sources in this collection will help you formulate a response to this question.

Women’s suffrage did not happen equally in all parts of the world at the same time. Examine how women across space and time have fought for their right to vote.

Voting rights are often taken for granted. Yet women had to fight hard for suffrage in a battle spread unevenly across decades and continents.

Empire, nationalism, and industrialization both defined the roles of men and women and created spaces where these new definitions were contested around the world.

Time to test some claims—this time about social class and gender.

It’s time to revisit the themes and see how your thinking changed from the start of this unit to the end. (Hint: We know you’ve learned a lot, now it’s time to show your teacher!)

Continue developing your understanding of CCOT, this time looking at the changes and continuities which occurred in Unit 5.

It’s time to review the map predictions you made at the beginning of the unit, as you 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 time to sharpen your SAQ skills. This time you’ll be searching for historical images to use as evidence to support your claims.

Yes, we are returning to the Thesis and Contextualization rows, and don’t argue about it. Wait… DO argue! Or at least figure out how well this writer constructed their argument.

Time to use Score! Get automated feedback as you compare the impact of industrialization in Britain and India.