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10.2 Students compare and contrast the Glorious Revolution of England, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution and their enduring effects worldwide on the political expectations for self-government and individual liberty.
1. Compare the major ideas of philosophers and their effects on the democratic revolutions in England, the United States, France, and Latin America (e.g., John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simón Bolívar, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison).
2. List the principles of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights (1689), the American Declaration of Independence (1776), the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789), and the U.S. Bill of Rights (1791).
3. Understand the unique character of the American Revolution, its spread to other parts of the world, and its continuing significance to other nations.
4. Explain how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire.
5. Discuss how nationalism spread across Europe with Napoleon but was repressed for a generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848.
1. Compare the major ideas of philosophers and their effects on the democratic revolutions in England, the United States, France, and Latin America (e.g., John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simón Bolívar, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison).
2. List the principles of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights (1689), the American Declaration of Independence (1776), the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789), and the U.S. Bill of Rights (1791).
3. Understand the unique character of the American Revolution, its spread to other parts of the world, and its continuing significance to other nations.
4. Explain how the ideology of the French Revolution led France to develop from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic empire.
5. Discuss how nationalism spread across Europe with Napoleon but was repressed for a generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848.
Big Ideas:
- How did Enlightenment thinking impact and influence the American and French Revolutions?
- The root causes and events of the French Revolution (1789 - 1799).
- What is Nationalism? What is a nation? The rise of Nations and Nationalism across Europe.
- Constitutional documents and their influences.
Student Learning Objectives:
- By the end of this unit students will be able to identify the root causes and events of the French Revolution.
- Students will apply what they have learned with a short essay regarding Enlightenment thinking and how writer’s like John Locke and Voltaire influenced the causes, events and people of France that led them into a violent overthrow of the monarchy.
- Students will also be able to compare and contrast the English Bill of Rights and the Bill of Rights with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and the influence that the American Revolution had on French thinking.
- Students will be able to analyze Napoleon’s rise to power and the long term effects that the Napoleonic Wars had on the rise of nation-states that would impact the European continent for almost a 100 years.