1. Nationalist Revolutions Sweep the West
Chapter 8

2. What is Nationalism?
The belief that the greatest loyalty should be to a nation of people who share a common culture & history
Nationalism arose in the early 1800s as a relatively new and vital point of view.
Prior to the American & French Revolutions, nationalism wasn’t a common consideration in establishing a government or defining a civilization.
Only with the rise of an educated middle class did values shift to nationalism with its emphasis on nationality—with a common language, culture, and ethnicity.

3. Clash of Philosophies
3 schools of political thought struggled for supremacy in European societies during the first half of the 1800s.
Each attracted a different set of followers:
Conservative: usually wealthy property owners and nobility.
Liberal: mostly middle-class business leaders and merchants. Wanted to give more power to elected parliaments, but only the educated and landowners could vote.
Radical: favored drastic change to extend democracy to all people. Believed that governments should practice the ideals of the French Revolution—liberty, equality, and brotherhood.

4. Nationalism Develops
As conservatives, liberals, and radicals debated issues of government, a new movement called nationalism emerged.
The nationalist movement would blur the lines that separated the three political theories.
When a nation had its own independent government, it became known as a nation-state.
A nation-state defends the nation’s territory and way of life, and it represents the nation to the rest of the world.

5. Three Views of Nationalism
3 different types of nationalist movements:
Unification: mergers of politically divided but culturally similar lands
Separation: culturally distinct group resists being added to a state or tries to break away
State-building: culturally distinct groups form into a new state by accepting a single culture

6. Nationalism Explained:
Bonds that create a nation-state:
Culture
Religion
History
Nationality
Territory
Language
*page 245 in your textbook!!

7. Nationalism—Positive or Negative?
Nationalism has not always been a positive influence. For example, extremely strong nationalistic feelings sometimes lead a group to turn against outsiders…
Based on what you know about nationalism & what you learned from the Blackboard blended learning day assignment, what are some examples of negative results of nationalism?

8. Today you will examine the role nationalism had in Latin American independence. To do so, you must first understand Latin American colonial society in the early 1800s…
*Chapter 8-section 1: textbook- page 246.

9. Document Based Question: DBQ Project
In the struggle for Latin American Independence, why did the Creoles lead the fight?

10. Simon Bolivar & Jose de San Martin
Document Based Question: DBQ Project
Simon Bolivar & Jose de San Martin

11. STEP 3: Understanding the Question & Pre-Bucketing
DBQ Project: In the Struggle for Latin American Independence, why did the Creoles lead the fight?
STEP 3: Understanding the Question & Pre-Bucketing
Reason #3
Reason #1
Reason #2
With a partner, brainstorm possible reasons why the Creoles led the fight in the Latin American independence movements.

12. STEP 4: Document Analysis
DBQ Project: In the Struggle for Latin American Independence, why did the Creoles lead the fight?
STEP 4: Document Analysis
Document A:
As a class, we will read through Document A and answer the Document Analysis Questions.
Use information from the Background Essay, your textbook, and the “Content Notes” to help answer the questions.
*Remember, your goals is to gather information that can be used to support your essay response. Answer the questions thoroughly.

13. STEP 4: Document Analysis
DBQ Project: In the Struggle for Latin American Independence, why did the Creoles lead the fight?
STEP 4: Document Analysis
Documents B & C:
With a partner, read Documents B & C and answer the Document Analysis Questions.
Use information from the Background Essay, your textbook, and the “Content Notes” to help answer the questions.
*Remember, your goals is to gather information that can be used to support your essay response. Answer the questions thoroughly.

14. STEP 4: Document Analysis
DBQ Project: In the Struggle for Latin American Independence, why did the Creoles lead the fight?
STEP 4: Document Analysis
Documents D-F:
On your own, read Documents D-F and answer the Document Analysis Questions.
Use information from the Background Essay, your textbook, and the “Content Notes” to help answer the questions.
*Remember, your goals is to gather information that can be used to support your essay response. Answer the questions thoroughly.
Completing these Document Analysis Questions will be HOMEWORK!!

15. Desire for Political Control
DBQ Project: In the Struggle for Latin American Independence, why did the Creoles lead the fight?
STEP 5: Bucketing—Getting Ready to Write
Desire for Political Control
Fear of Social Unrest
Economic Interests
Place 2 documents in each bucket. *Remember, you buckets are going to be your body paragraphs.
Be sure that you can defend your choices with specific evidence from the documents.

16. STEP 5: Thesis Development and Road Map
DBQ Project: In the Struggle for Latin American Independence, why did the Creoles lead the fight?
STEP 5: Thesis Development and Road Map
Using the bucket titles & your DBQ question as a guide, complete the “chicken foot”. The “feet” will serve as the topics for your body paragraphs. The entire chicken foot will be the thesis of your essay.

17. You will be writing an in-class DBQ essay response
You will be writing an in-class DBQ essay response. It is EXTREMELY important that you complete the document analysis questions and “bucketing” for homework!!