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PRIORITY STANDARDS:
3. Explain and analyze revolutions (e.g., democratic,
scientific, technological, social) as they evolved throughout the enlightenment
and their enduring effects on political, economic and cultural institutions,
to include:
a. Copernican view of the universe and Newton’s natural
laws;
b. tension and cooperation between religion and new scientific
discoveries;
c. impact of Galileo’s ideas and the introduction of the
scientific method as a means of understanding the universe;
d. events and ideas that led to parliamentary government
(English civil war, glorious revolution);
e. enlightenment philosophies used to support events leading
to American and French revolutions;
f. Napoleonic era (e.g., codification of law); Latin America’s
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| OBJECTIVES |
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OBJECTIVE (SWBAT):
Students will learn the origins of the United States.
Students will learn how the Constitution establishes the
structure and function of the federal government.
BIG IDEAS:
Struggle for Rights: Social inequality and
economic problems contributed to the French Revolution.
Struggle for Rights: Radical groups controlled
the revolution, which many people in France and abroad opposed.
Self-Determination: As Napoleon built his
empire across Europe, he also spread the revolutionary idea of nationalism.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS (SWBATA):
What was the French system of government before the French
Revolution?
What internal conflicts in France affected the progress
of the French Revolution?
Why was Napoleon able to take control of France and become
its emperor? |
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KEY VOCABULARY:
estate taille, bourgeoisie, sans-culottes, faction, elector,
coup d’etat, consulate, nationalism
People and Places
Louis XVI, Tennis Court Oath, Declaration of the Rights
of Man and the Citizen, Olympia de Gouges, Georges Danton, Jean-Paul Marat,
Jacobins, Committee of Public Safety, Maximilien Robespierre, Reign of
Terror, Directory, Napoleon Bonaparte, Civil Code, Anne-Louise-Germaine
de Staël, Duke of Wellington |
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