Global Empires, ​c. 1750-1900

Revolutions

Topics:

• The ​Enlightenment
• The American Revolution
• The French Revolution
• Latin American Revolutions
• Nationalism
• Political Ideologies
• Reform Movements
• Unification

Goals:

• ​Explain how the Enlightenment affected societies.
• ​Explain the revolutions that swept the Atlantic world.
• ​​Explain causes and effects of the various revolutions.
  

Industrialization

​​Topics:

• The Factory System
• The Second Industrial Revolution
• Spread of Industrialization
• ​Transportation and Communication
• Global Finance
• ​​Urbanization
• Social Class
• Social Reform​​

Goals:

• ​Explain how environmental factors contributed to industrialization.
• ​​Explain modes and locations of production developed and changed.
• ​​​Explain how technology shaped economic production.
• ​​​​Explain the economic strategies of different states.
• ​Explain the development of economic systems, ideologies, and institutions.
• ​​​Explain calls for changes in industrial societies.
• ​​Explain how industrialization changed social hierarchies and standards of living.

Imperialism

Topics:

• The Civilizing Mission
• The New Imperialism
• ​North American Manifest Destiny
  
• Latin American States
  
• Migration
  
• Modernization​

Goals:

• ​​Explain how ideologies contributed to imperialism.
• ​​​Compare changes in state power.
• ​​​Explain factors that influenced state building.
• ​​Explain how various environmental and economic factors contributed to the global economy.
• ​​Explain how various environmental and economic factors contributed to patterns of migration.
• ​​​Explain how new patterns of migration affected society.

Links

• Timeline - This brave Russian soldier posed as a man to fight Napoleon
• Hark! A Vagrant - French Revolution Comics
• Hark! A Vagrant - Napoleon's Invasion of Russia
• Hark! A Vagrant - Robespierre
• Hark! A Vagrant - Napoleon Wasn't Short
• Hark! A Vagrant - Napoleon Eats Cookies
• Hark! A Vagrant - A Date With Horatio Nelson!​