Period 5 (1750-1900)

Key Concept 5.3: Nationalism, Revolution, and

Reform Flipped Classroom
Directions: Complete the following Flipped Classroom assignment. THIS FILE IS USED SO YOU CAN EASILY CONNECT TO
THE WEBSITE LINKS. WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON THE HANDOUT GIVEN TO YOU. DUE WEDNESDAY, 2/27.

Complete for Class Tomorrow 3.24.16

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
PART 1: Read the following excerpts for the Declaration of Independence and answer questions 1-4.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Qe4EItI5t5R0NLakxVcDdTLXM/view?usp=sharing
1. What rights are the writers claiming that they have?
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2. According to this paragraph, what is the purpose of the government?
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3. What words from this paragraph actually declare the colonists independence?
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4. What rights and powers do they state that they now have?
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PART 2: Watch Crash Couse: Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution: Crash Course World History #28 and answer the
following questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUiSBXQHCw&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
The Seven Years War ended in 1763. You have learned about the North American battles of this war, called the French and Indian
War, in previous US History classes.
5. How was the end of the Seven Years War a victory for British colonists in North America?
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6. Complete the following chart:
Describe

Colonial Reaction/Complaints

Result

Stamp Act
Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
7. Why does John Green argue the American Revolution was completed by the time of the signing of the Declaration of
Independence?
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8. What was revolutionary about the American Revolution?

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9. How was the American Revolution influenced by Enlightenment thinkers?
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10. Complete the following chart:
American
Describe
Revolutionary Goals

Result at end of American

Revolution

Was this a change or

continuity? Explain

Property Rights
Equality
11. Complete the following chart:
Enlightenment Thinker

Argument/New Ideas

Influence on American Revolution

Immanuel Kant
John Locke
12. What were significant changes that were brought about by the American Revolution?
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
PART 1: Watch Crash Couse: The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29 and answer the following questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTTvKwCylFY&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
13. What was the Estates General?
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14. Who were the Three Estates?
a. First Estate:
b. Second Estate:
c. Third Estate:
15. What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
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16. Why was the first phase of the French Revolution not all that revolutionary?
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17. Who were the Jacobins?
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18. Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
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19. Why wasnt Frances Revolution revolutionary? OR What stayed the same?
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20. In what was did the French Revolution being change? OR What were its successes?
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21. According to John Green, why was the French Revolution more revolutionary than the American Revolution?
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22. What made the French Revolution so radical? Explain.
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PART 2: Read French Revolution: Declaration of the Rights of Man and answer questions 24-26.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Qe4EItI5t5TjQ1MmRnZncwQ28/view?usp=sharing
23. Article 11 describes the right to free speech. How does this right differ from the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?
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24. What does this document say regarding taxation?
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25. Analyze the content of this declaration. What do you strongly agree or disagree with? Explain your answer.
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PART 3: Read The French Revolution: What Is the Third Estate? and answer questions 27-29.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Qe4EItI5t5b0hFeTNmb3RKLVk/view?usp=sharing
26. Before the French Revolution, the French nobility argued that it operated to hold together the nation and social order. Does
Abb Sieys agree with this idea? Why or why not?
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27. Summarize the complaints Abb Sieysmakes regarding the nobility.
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28. Imagine that you are a French person reading Abb Sieys pamphlet in early 1789, just before the meeting of the EstatesGeneral. As a member of the nobility, how might you react? How might you react as a member of the Third Estate? Explain
your answer.
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THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION

PART 1: Watch Crash Couse: Haitian Revolutions: Crash Course World History #30 and answer the questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A_o-nU5s2U&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
Saint Domingue is an island in the Caribbean. Today, this island is often referred to as Hispaniola and is home to both Haiti and
Dominican Republic.
29. Describe the French colonys link to the silver trade.
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30. Describe the French colonys link to the sugar trade.
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31. Describe slavery in Saint Domingue.
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32. How did so many slaves die?
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33. Complete the following chart about the FOUR groups in Haitian society.
Four Social
Contributions to Haitian Society
Complaints when the French Revolution Started
Groups
Grand Blanc: Free,
wealthy plantationowning whites

Freed People of
Color

Petit Blanc: poor

white people

Slaves

34. How did the freed people of color contribute to island stability?
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35. How does the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen influence the Haitian Revolution?
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36. Explain the plantation system after the end of slavery.
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37. Why is Haitis revolutionary history unique and important to us?
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LATIN AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS

PART 1: Watch Crash Course: Latin American Revolutions: Crash Course World History #31 and answer the questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBw35Ze3bg8&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
Latin America Before the Revolutions
38. Before the revolutions, what were the 3 institutions that exercised control?
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39. Latin America is very famous for transculturation or the blending of cultures. List the 4 distinct cultures that were created
in Latin America after the Europeans arrived.
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40. What were the castas?
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41. How much of the Latin American population was racially mixed?
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Revolutions
Revolution

List the changes and continuities of each Latin American Revolution.

Changes
Continuities

Brazilian
Mexican
Venezuelan
42. By what year was almost all of North America free from foreign / colonial rule?
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Results of the Revolutions
43. List 2 reasons why Latin America was the leader of 19th century history.
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44. List 3 reasons why the Latin America Revolutions were not very revolutionary.
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PART 2: Read Simon Bolivar's Jamaica Letter and answer questions 45-48.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Qe4EItI5t5eWhlNTRCNHJsLUE/view?usp=sharing
45. On what basis does Bolivar say the Americas should be free?
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46. What kinds of complaints does he make, specifically, against Spain?
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47. Why doesnt Bolivar show any confidence in the ability of the peoples of Latin America to govern themselves?
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48. What kinds of problems do you think Latin America will have upon gaining independence?
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