DBQ Source Summaries: Political Revolutions
WORLD HISTORY PROJECT1200/ LESSON 4.3ACTIVITYDBQ SOURCE SUMMARIES: POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS OF THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURYUnless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Credit: “DBQ Source Summaries: Political Revolutions of the Long Nineteenth Century”, OER Project, https://www.oerproject.com/1Note to teachers: Below you will find summaries of the sources in the DBQ Sources: Political Revolutions of the Long Nineteenth Century. These are meant to provide you a quick understanding of the document types and content. You may choose to provide them to your students as additional scaffolding.Source SummaryDocument 1 (Text)Source:Lefeuvre, abbé. “Poverty Observed!: Journal of a Country Priest, 1709.” World History Commons. https://worldhistorycommons.org/poverty-observed-journal-country-priest. The abbé Lefeuvre was a village priest in France, who kept a journal of events in his parish. In 1709, a severe winter storm lasted for a number of weeks. Here, he recounts the problems experienced in his village.Lefeuvre describes multiple hardships that befell France in the early 18thCentury. This passage highlights the severe weather, food shortages, and harsh government measures that French peasants were forced to endure.Document 2 (Text)Source:Humphreys, R. A. and John Lynch. The Origins of the Latin American Revolutions, 1808–1826. New York: Knopf, 1965. This is an excerpt of British merchant John Armitage’s History of Brazil, published in 1836.In this passage, Armitage describes the conditions of Brazil’s social classes, including its enslaved African population, its free mix-race people, and its white inhabitants. He mentions that the circumstances of these groups inspired two separate conspiracies in 1789 and 1801.Document 3 (Text)Source:Griffitts, Hannah. “The Female Patriots. Addressed to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768.” The Pennsylvania Chronicle, 25 December 1769. Reprinted in Catherine La Courreye Blecki and Karin A. Wulf, eds. Milcah Martha Moore’s Book: A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. In this excerpt of her 1768 poem, Philadelphia Quaker Hannah Griffitts refers In this poem, Hannah Griffitts laments the two struggles faced by women in the American colonies. She voices the familiar complaints against British taxation, but also suggest that American women would fare better than their male counterparts in the struggle against British colonialism.
WORLD HISTORY PROJECT 1200 / LESSON 4.3ACTIVITYDBQ SOURCE SUMMARIES: POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS OF THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY 2Source Summaryspecifically to Lord George Grenville, the chancellor of the British Exchequer and author of the tax policy.Document 4 (Text)Source:“The Code Noir (The Black Code).” Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution. https://revolution.chnm.org/d/335/.The Code Noir was a 1685 decree under the French King Louis XIV which defined the conditions of slavery throughout the French colonial empire. More specifically, the code laid out the rights, restrictions, and legal consequences that both groups were forced to abide by.Document 5 (Text)Source:Nouzeilles, Gabriela and Graciela R. Montaldo. The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. Mariano Moreno (1778–1811) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who was a key figure in the first national government of Argentina that was created after the 1810 May Revolution. Below is a petition he wrote to the Spanish government in 1809 on behalf ofArgentine landowners.In the letter below, Mariano Moreno explains why the Argentine government must adopt a more hands-off approach with respect to trade and commerce. He makes his appeal by citing the Enlightenment philosopher Adam Smith, and his “invisible hand” philosophy on the economy.Document 6 (Text)Source: Robinson, James Harvey and Charles A. Beard, eds. Readings in Modern European History. Volume 1: The Eighteenth Century: The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Period. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1908.François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), known by his pseudonym Voltaire, was a French writer and intellectual. This is a selection of his book Philosophical Letters, in which he reflected on his experience living in England between 1726 and 1729. It was first published in English in 1733 and then in French the following year.In this passage, Voltaire explains the difference between living under French and English rule during the early 18thCentury. He highlights how the English share the burden of taxation across social classes, and how that impacts public sentiment in the country.