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ADVANCED PLACEMENT EUROPEAN HISTORY
UNIT V: Social Change and Political Revolution

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SYLLABUS AND DAILY ASSIGNMENTS:

Unit 5 Syllabus
Calendar in linear form with daily assignments
Calendar in block form


In this French cartoon from the period, the Third Estate bears the full burden of taxation while the nobility, on the left leaning on the stone, and the clergy, on the right giving slight help, look on.

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TEXT READINGS:

McKay, Hill and Buckler. A History of Western Society. Chapter 20, pp. 660-688 (glossary) and Chapter 21, pp. 690-723 (glossary). (The web site provides access to primary sources and chapter tests.)

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:

Sherman. Western Civilization: Images and Interpretations, selected readings. 
Hammond Historical Atlas of the World. (For another on line equivalent, try Periodical Historical Atlas with maps of Europe from A.D 1100-2000.)
Class handouts as distributed. See 'On-line Support Resources' below.

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On-Line Support Resources:

Chronology of the French Revolution: Interactive with links
The French Revolution Headlines -- PowerPoint presentation
Outline notes on the French Revolution and Napoleon
The Gradual Development of French Democracy
U.S. Declaration of Independence -- annotated
Seven Great Revolutions of Early Modern Europe -- PowerPoint presentation
French Revolution Cause and Effect Fill-in Worksheet

For further information from the Internet, see links below :

CONSULT YOUR SYLLABUS FOR THE CALENDAR AND DAILY ASSIGNMENTS.

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Unit V Journal Topics (These are the topics given in Mr. Roswell's class and may not always be the same as those given by Mr. Arias. The topics will be added at the earliest opportunity after they are given in class.)

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CALIFORNIA STATE STANDARDS: The following State of California content standards for Grade 10: World History, Culture and Geography, will be dealt with completely or in part:

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, Simon Bolivar, 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.

10.4 Students analyze patterns of global change in the era of New Imperialism in at least two of the following regions or countries: Africa, Southeast Asia, China, India, Latin America, and the Philippines.

2.      Discuss the locations of the colonial rule of such nations as England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Portugal, and the United States. 

History and Social Science analysis skills are embedded in the content and will be interwoven throughout this and every unit.

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UNIT OBJECTIVES:

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

  1. Outline the significant facts comparing family life, working patterns, pre-marital sex practices and attitudes, child care, and education of pre-industrial Europe to present-day patterns.
  2. Discuss the attitudes and beliefs on liberty and equality, the concepts of classical liberalism, as held by many Europeans and the effects of those attitudes.
  3. Discuss the impact of the American Revolution upon Europe.
  4. Discuss the causes and course of the beginning of the popular revolution in France.
  5. Discuss the course of the European wars of the French Revolution and the causes and effects of the Reign of Terror in France.

  6. Did Napoleon represent the ideals of the revolution?  Give examples in support of “yes” and “no” then answer the question based on your analysis of the supporting arguments.

SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS:

  1. Describe the typical diet and nutritional intake of people in early modern Europe.

  2. Discuss the link between diet and individual health found in early modern Europe.

  3. Describe the medical practices typical to early modern Europe.

  4. Discuss hospitals, hospital practices, and experimental medicine in early modern Europe.
  5. Discuss the import and influence of the institutional church in European social life.
  6. Describe the causes and effects of the Protestant revival of eighteenth century Europe.

  7. Describe the practices in Catholicism typical of eighteenth-century Europe.

  8. Describe the practices of leisure and recreation typical to early modern Europe.

  9. Discuss the criticism of education and the new methods offered by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

  10. Discuss the causes and origins of the American Revolution.

  11. Describe the achievement of independence by the United States and the role played by the European powers in the American Revolution.

  12. Describe the government of the United States established following independence.
  13. Discuss the contrast between the legal social order in France and the existing realities of the social classes.

  14. Describe the formation of the National Assembly and the beginning of the political revolution in France.
  15. Describe the reforms and new government of the establishment of the limited constitutional monarchy in France.

  16. Discuss foreign reactions to the French Revolution and the beginning of the wars of the French Revolution.

  17. Discuss the causes of the fall of the French monarchy in the second revolution and the establishment of the first French Republic of France.
  18. Describe the causes of the Thermidorean Reaction and the practices of the Directory in governing France.

  19. Describe the experiences of a soldier in Napoleon’s army as related by Jakob Walter.

  20. Discuss the arguments for gender equality as found in the writings of Olympe de Gouges.

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IDENTIFICATIONS:

1)extended family; 2)nuclear family; 3)St. Vincent de Paul; 4)"poor people’s food"; 5)scurvy; 6)gout; 7)bloodletting; 8)cauterizing; 9)midwife; 10)Edward Jenner; 11)Pietism; 12)John Wesley; 13)Lent; 14)Carnival (Mardi Gras, Fasching; 15)liberalism; 16)Stamp Act; 17)Boston "Tea Party"; 18)Coercive Acts ("Intollerable Acts"); 19)First Continental Congress; 20)Battles of Lexington and Concord; 21)Thomas Paine, Common Sense; 22)Second Continental Congress; 23)Declaration of Independence; 24)Loyalists (Tories); 25)Battle of Yorktown; 26)Treaty of Paris of 1783; 27)Constitutional Convention; 28)Federalists and Anti-Federalists; 29)U.S. Bill of Rights; 30)Old Order (Old Regime, Ancien Régime); 31)Parlement of Paris; 32)First, Second, and Third Estates; 33)bourgeoisie; 34)Louis XVI; 35)Estates General; 36)Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate?; 37)National Assembly; 38)Tennis Court Oath; 39)storming of the Bastille; 40)the Great Fear (le grande peur); 41)Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen; 42)Marie Antoinette; 43)women's march; 44)Civil Constitution of the Clergy*; 45)assignats; 46)Maximilien Robespierre; 47)Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France; 48)Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; 49)"Flight to Varennes"*; 50)Declaration of Pillnitz; 51)Legislative Assembly; 52)Jacobins; 53)"La Marseillaise"; 54)second French Revolution; 55)September Massacres; 56)National Convention*; 57)the "Mountain" and the "Plain"; 58)Georges Jacques Danton; 59)Girondists; 60)First Coalition; 61)Committee of Public Safety; 62)Reign of Terror; 63)levee en masse*; 64)Thermidorean Reaction; 65)The Directory (Le Directoire); 66)Napoleon Bonaparte; 67)coup d’état; 68)the Consulate; 69)Napoleonic Code (Code Napoleon); 70)Concordat of 1801; 71)Joseph Fouché; 72)Second Coalition; 73)Treaty of Lunéville; 74)Treaty of Amiens; 75)Lord Horatio Nelson; 76)Battle of Trafalgar; 77)Battle of Austerlitz; 78)Tsar Alexander I; 79)Emperor Francis II; 80)King Frederick William III; 81)Treaties of Tilsit; 82)Continental System; 83)Prince Klemens von Metternich; 84)Treaty of Chaumont; 85)Quadruple Alliance; 86)Elba; 87)Louis XVIII; 88)Congress of Vienna; 89)the "Hundred Days"; 90)Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington*; 91)Battle of Waterloo; 92)St. Helena.

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Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze

The Tennis Court Oath by Jacques Louis David


Thomas Jefferson

King George III of Britain

King Louis XVI of France

The Death of Marat
by Jacques-Louis David

The First Consul Crossing the Alps
by Jacques-Louis David


The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David

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Links to sites of interest:

American Independence from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook
French Revolution (by Kellen Lee, Class of 2006)
French Revolution Glossary
French Revolution from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité: The French Revolution (The History Wiz)
The French Revolt and Empire, 1792-1815 (The War Times Journal)
An Annotated Chronology of the Events of the French Revolution
Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution (Florida State)
The French Revolution (Peder Larson)
The French Revolution (Rodney Hilton)
The French Revolution (The Victorian Web)
The Waterloo Visitors' Center (Take a virtual tour of the battlefield.)
The French Revolution (1789-1799) (SparkNotes)
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Napoleonic Europe (1799-1815) (SparkNotes)
Lectures on Modern European History (see Lectures, 11-15)
Napoleon Bonaparte Internet Guide
Napoleonic Alliance (Site by Napoleonic Era enthusiasts)
Napoleon (PBS series companion site)
The International Napoleonic Society (official website)
Teacher Oz's History of Fashion, Food, Sport, Entertainment and Games

Mark Harden's "The Artchive"
Art History - Dr. Christopher Witcombe
CGFA - A Virtual Art Museum
Artcyclopedia
Web Gallery of Art
Tigertail Virtual Museum
Web Museum


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