Unit+5

Unit 5: The Modern World (1750 - 1914) Unit 5 Notes:

Unit 5 Day 1 Topics: Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Analyze the social impacts of the Scientific Revolution.
 * Evaluate the ideas of the enlightenment and how they impacted the world.

Quickwrite: What is the scientific method?

Homework: Read Ch. 17.3 & 17.4

Unit 5 Day 2 Topics: Enlightened monarchs, Seven Years' War, American Revolution, US Constitution and Bill of Rights

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Evaluate the potential of an "enlightened monarch."
 * Analyze the impact of the American Revolution in world history.

Quickwrite: Can an absolute monarch be enlightened? What do you think?

SAS#885: Enlightenment Philosophers

Homework: Read Ch. 18.1

Unit 5 Day 3 Topics: French Revolution, Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, National Assembly, sans-culottes

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Analyze the social inequality and economic problems that led to the French Revolution.
 * Sequence the order of events of the first few years of the Revolution.

Quickwrite: True or False: The French Revolution successfully overthrew King Louis XIV.

Homework: Read Ch. 18.2

Unit 5 Day 4 Topics: Radicalism, First Republic, Committee of Public Safety, Reign of Terror, the Directory, coup d'etat

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Examine the impact of radicalism on the French Revolution.
 * Evaluate the causes and effects of the Reign of Terror.

Quickwrite: Copy down the following directions. You will be graded on all three!


 * 1) Copy objectives & quickwrite.
 * 2) Help each other complete the charts in the Chapter 18 Reading Guide (we did the first two in class). Pay attention to what the question/statement is asking you to do. Don't be helpless or lazy! Ask questions! Get it done!!
 * 3) Watch PBS's //Napoleon// & take notes.

Homework: Read Ch. 18.3

Unit 5 Day 5 Topics: Napoleon Bonaparte, French Empire, Napoleonic Code, Waterloo

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Examine how Napoleon built a French empire.
 * Analyze the ideas of the Enlightenment and nationalism that Napoleon spread.

Quickwrite: What makes Napoleon Bonaparte a contradiction?

Homework: Read Ch. 19.1 & 19.2

Unit 5 Day 6 Topics: Industrial Revolution, steam engine, factory system, capitalism, socialism, conservatism, liberalism, nationalism

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Analyze how industrialization changed the way people worked and lived in Europe.
 * Identify the differences between the ideas of conservatism, liberalism, and nationalism.

Quickwrite: What geographical factors help explain why industrialization began in Great Britain (p. 615)?

Homework: Read Ch. 19.3 & 19.4

Unit 5 Day 7 Topics: German & Italian unification, examples of nationalism in Europe and the US, Romanticism, natural selection

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Analyze the outcomes of nationalist movements across Europe during the 19th century.
 * Assess the impact of Romanticism as a reaction to Enlightenment thought.

Quickwrite: Explain how the Crimean War "opened the door to the unification of Italy and Germany" (pp. 630-631). What is the Congress of Vienna? (p. 624)

Homework: Read Ch. 20.1 & 20.2

Unit 5 Day 8 Topics: Second Industrial Revolution, mass production, socialism, trade unions, urbanization, middle class, women's rights, leisure time

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Analyze how industrialization affected economics, politics, and society around the world.
 * Evaluate the rise of socialism in response to the problems of industrial capitalism.
 * Assess how the growth of cities impacted European and American societies in the 19th century.

Quickwrite: What seems to be the key difference between the First and Second Industrial Revolutions? (hint: see p. 652)

Homework: Read Ch. 20.3 & 20.4

Unit 5 Day 9 Learning Objectives: Students will
 * (see objectives for Day 8 above)

Quickwrite: What do the terms "mass society" and "mass culture" mean?

Unit 5 Day 10 Topics: Political democracy, authoritarianism, international rivalry, crises in the Balkans, modernism, scientific developments, psychoanalysis, Social Darwinism, anti-Semitism

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Compare the spread of democracy in Western Europe with the authoritarianism in Eastern Europe.
 * Analyze the rivalries of Europe that set the stage for world war.
 * Evaluate the intense changes in art, culture, and science during this modern era.

Quickwrite: How had democracy expanded by the end of the 19th century? (p. 668)

Homework: Read Ch. 21.1

Unit 5 Day 11 Topics: "New" imperialism, racism, Social Darwinism, "white man's burden," colonial rule of Southeast Asia, direct v. indirect rule

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Evaluate the justifications for the "new" phase of imperialism of the late 19th century.
 * Analyze the European and American colonial rule over its territories in Southeast Asia.
 * Assess the resistance to colonial rule during this time period.

Quickwrite: What does the phrase "scramble for territories" make you think of?

Homework: Read Ch. 21.2

Unit 5 Day 12 Topics: European empires in Africa, Suez Canal, Zulu nation, Boer War, African nationalism

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Analyze how and why Europeans colonized Africa during the 19th century.
 * Assess the effects of European competition for and rule over African colonies.
 * Analyze the African resistance to European colonization.

Quickwrite: What do you notice about Africa between 1800 and 1914? (see maps on p. 693)

Homework: Read Ch. 21.3

Unit 5 Day 13 Topics: Sepoy Mutiny, British colonial rule of India, Mohandas Gandhi, Indian nationalism

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Analyze the causes and effects of British rule over India.
 * Assess the impact of Gandhi and the rise of Indian nationalism during the early 20th century.

Quickwrite: What were "sepoys" and why did they revolt against the British?

Homework: Read Ch. 21.4

Unit 5 Day 14 Topics: Spanish colonial social structure, Latin American nationalism, authoritarianism in Latin America, role of US in Latin American affairs, Mexican Revolution

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Analyze the causes and effects of independence movements in Latin America.
 * Evaluate the economic position of Latin American countries after they establish independence.

Quickwrite: Using the maps on page 709, describe what happens to European colonial rule of Latin America by 1830.

Homework: Read Ch. 22.1 & 22.2

Unit 5 Day 15 Topics: Decline of the Qing, Opium War, European influence in China, Open Door Policy, Boxer Rebellion, Chinese nationalism, Revolution of 1911

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Assess the effects of European and US policy in China at the turn of the 20th century.
 * Evaluate the causes and effects of the Opium War.
 * Analyze how revolution changed the Chinese economy, politics, and culture.

Quickwrite: Judging from the map on page 725, what does "spheres of influence" mean?

Homework: Read Ch. 22.3

Unit 5 Day 16 Topics: Rise of modern Japan, Meiji Restoration, Japanese industrialization and expansion

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Evaluate the causes and effects of Meiji Restoration.
 * Assess the outcome of Western influences on Japan.

Quickwrite: How was Commodore Matthew Perry able to obtain US goals in Japan?

Homework: Study for test on Ch. 17-22.

Unit 5 Day 17 Topics: Unit 5 Test tomorrow!

Learning Objectives: Students will
 * Catch up and review for Unit 5 test tomorrow.

Quickwrite: Create a multiple choice question for the test.

Homework: Study for test on Ch. 17-22.

Unit 5 Test Day Unit 5 Study Guide Homework: Read Ch. 23.1 & 23.2

Links: Modern World Documentaries