Unit Title: Age of Revolutions
Course Title: 7th grade Social Studies
Pacing: 8 Days
Content Standards: K-12 Vertical Alignment
H.2 Understand the implications of global interactions.
Understandings
Students will understand that…
People around the world are rebelling against their governments as a result of societal and economic inequalities.
Views of the role and requirements of citizens were challenged through various revolutions in Europe and its colonies.
Cultural division between upper and lower classes in Europe and its colonies incited rebellion against established government.
Essential Questions
What political and social theories from the Enlightenment influenced French and Latin American Revolutions Revolutions?
Should all citizens have equal rights regardless of economic or educational background?
How were French revolutionaries influenced by the democratic ideals of the American Revolution?
Do greater individual freedoms result in a more stable system of government?
Is political change inevitable?
How do the perceived sources of power in monarchical and democratic governments differ and how does this difference impact their resistance to change?
How does social hierarchy contribute to the division and eventual breakdown in society?
Knowledge
Students will know…
Vocabulary: Revolution, Coup d'état, Democracy
Ideas from the Enlightenment period made groups in France, Haiti, and the American colonies more aware of inequalities.
Skills
Students will be able to…
Explain (to make known, plain, to give reason to show logical development)
Identify (to establish, to determine)
Evaluate (to determine the significance)
Connect (to place or establish in relationship)
Analyze (to study or determine the nature and relationship)
Unit Title: Age of Revolutions
Course Title: 7th grade Social Studies
Pacing: 8 Days
Content Standards: K-12 Vertical Alignment
H.2 Understand the implications of global interactions.
- H.2.1-Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization). C&G.1 Understand the development of government in modern societies and regions.
- C&G.1.3-Compare the requirements for (e.g. age, gender, legal and economic status) and responsibilities of citizenship under various governments in modern societies (e.g. voting, taxes and military service).
- C.1.1- Explain how culture unites and divides modern societies and regions (e.g. enslavement of various peoples, caste system, religious conflict and Social Darwinism).
Understandings
Students will understand that…
People around the world are rebelling against their governments as a result of societal and economic inequalities.
Views of the role and requirements of citizens were challenged through various revolutions in Europe and its colonies.
Cultural division between upper and lower classes in Europe and its colonies incited rebellion against established government.
Essential Questions
What political and social theories from the Enlightenment influenced French and Latin American Revolutions Revolutions?
Should all citizens have equal rights regardless of economic or educational background?
How were French revolutionaries influenced by the democratic ideals of the American Revolution?
Do greater individual freedoms result in a more stable system of government?
Is political change inevitable?
How do the perceived sources of power in monarchical and democratic governments differ and how does this difference impact their resistance to change?
How does social hierarchy contribute to the division and eventual breakdown in society?
Knowledge
Students will know…
Vocabulary: Revolution, Coup d'état, Democracy
Ideas from the Enlightenment period made groups in France, Haiti, and the American colonies more aware of inequalities.
- Great Britain abandoned its policy of salutary neglect, which led directly to the American Revolution.
- The debt from the Seven Years War caused Great Britain to heavily tax the colonists without their consent.
- The Enlightenment beliefs caused the American colonists to demand representation in Parliament and equal treatment from the British monarch.
- Several disputes/events between the British and the colonists eventually caused the American Revolution.
- The French support of the American Revolution and the lavish lifestyle of King Louis XVI left the country in severe debt.
- The 3rd Estate in France resented not being represented in government and the unfair tax system in place.
- Revolutionary documents, including The Declaration of Independence and The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, represented an application of Enlightenment ideas into governments.
- Napoleon Bonaparte brought order to France and effectively ended the Reign of Terror, while consolidating power and transforming France into a dictatorship.
- Mistreatment of slaves and abuses of power in Haiti caused Toussaint L'Ouverture to lead the Haitian slaves in revolt against the French.
- The Haitian Revolution was the first and only instance of a successful slave revolt and creation of an independent nation.
- The conflict between Napoleon and the neighboring European nations caused several Latin American revolutions in Mexico, Central America, and South America
Skills
Students will be able to…
Explain (to make known, plain, to give reason to show logical development)
- What a revolution is?
- The requirements and responsibilities of citizen in various societies
- The beliefs of groups in France, Haiti and Latin American countries
Identify (to establish, to determine)
- The causes and effects of Revolutions
- The connections between the Enlightenment and the goals of each revolution
Evaluate (to determine the significance)
- The effects social, military economic and political causes had on France, Haiti and America revolution.
- The impact cultural beliefs had on revolutions
- The role citizenship plays in revolutions
Connect (to place or establish in relationship)
- The political, economic, social and military effects of modern day revolutions to the the French and Latin American Revolutions
Analyze (to study or determine the nature and relationship)
- various primary sources and revolutionary documents to
- determine the connections and conflicts between the role of citizens based on Enlightenment thinkers and revolutionary leaders.