1. Government and Democracy Intro to Age of Revolutions
Alice F. Short
Hilliard Davidson High School
World Studies

2. Essential Questions TOPIC: AGE OF REVOLUTIONS (1750-1914)
The Age of Revolutions was a period of two world-encompassing and interrelated developments: the democratic revolution and the industrial revolution. Both had political, economic and social consequences on a global scale.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
1. How do revolutionary ideas affect global change?
2. How does the spread of political, economic, and cultural concepts affect an ever-changing world?
3. How do scientific advances affect political and social change?
4. How do scientific advances affect cultural and social change?

3. Content Statements TOPIC: AGE OF REVOLUTIONS (1750-1914)
The Age of Revolutions was a period of two world-encompassing and interrelated developments: the democratic revolution and the industrial revolution. Both had political, economic and social consequences on a global scale.
CONTENT STATEMENTS:
Enlightenment ideas on the relationship of the individual and the government influenced the American Revolution, French Revolution and Latin American wars for independence.
Industrialization had social, political and economic effects on Western Europe and the world.

4. Government and Democracy Vocabulary
tyranny (and tyranny of the majority)
individual
freedom
influence
revolution
democratic revolution
war

5. A SHORT Time to Ponder
DISCUSSION: What is the role of government? What does it actually do? What should it do? Why does government matter?

6. Modernity 1750-1914 – modern world
led by the West (Europe and the United States)
revolutions through imperialism
traditional monarchy  greater political representation
class transformation (middle class emerges)
agriculture  industrialization  urbanization
population growth
secular worldview
rapid and radical changes in artistic and literary styles
historians, political scientists, etc. do not agree on everything in regards what it means to be modern, but these are some on which there is general consensus

7. Great Political Upheavals
American Revolution
French Revolution
Latin American Wars for Independence

8. Industrial Revolution
The West
Japan
impacted EVERYONE

9. Modern Politics popular representation bureaucracies
not so much for women
bureaucracies
parliamentary bodies

10. Why Revolution? social stress class differences economic inequality
poverty
incompetent or oppressive leadership
intellectual and cultural forces (religion, nationalism, doctrines, ideologies)
The intellectual and cultural forces should sound a lot like the Enlightenment. *

11. Types of Revolutions from above (top-down) from below (bottom-up)
combination
factions?
cooperation? continued cooperation? in-group fighting and quarreling? betrayal? new revolutions?

12. A SHORT Time to Ponder
DISCUSSION: If we have a (another) revolution here, what type do you think it would be? What characteristics would it have? Why would we have one?