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Semester Study Guide: Unit 1: Absolutism (1150-1715) + Enlightenment and Democratic Ideals (1550-1800)
Textbook Chapter 1 and Chapter 2
Social Studies Standard: Concept/Assignment
Questions:
Your Response:
W.01: Describe the concept of the divine right of kings as well as the features, strengths and weaknesses of European absolutism, including: Louis XIV, Versailles, and Peter the Great.
Week 1: Divine Right of Kings:
4 Forms of Government
Who holds the power for each form of government?
W.01: Describe the concept of the divine right of kings as well as the features, strengths and weaknesses of European absolutism, including: Louis XIV, Versailles, and Peter the Great.
Week 2: Divine Right of Kings: Focused Notetaking
What is the concept of Absolute rule and divine right of kings?
How did Peter the Great and Louis XIV relate to absolute rule and divine right of kings? What were the features of their rule?
W.02: Compare documents that establish limits on government in
response to absolute monarchy (e.g., the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights). Week 2: Democratic Ideals: Vocabulary
Explain the following concepts: rule of law, limited government, due process of law, individual liberty, consent of the governed.
W.02 Compare documents that establish limits on government in
response to absolute monarchy (i.e. Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights).
W.03: Compare the major ideas of philosophers during the Age of
Enlightenment, such as Charles-
Louis de Montesquieu, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-
Jacques Rousseau.
Week 2: Democratic Ideals: Enlightenment Thinkers Reading Assignment: Written Summative Assessment
What is Hobbes’ view on government and people’s rights?
What is Locke’s view on government and people’s rights?
What is Montesquieu’s contribution to our current democracy?
What is Adam Smith’s philosophy?
How is the Magna Carta connected to our Democratic Ideals?
What is the social contract?
What are natural rights?
How did Enlightenment thinkers influence the U.S. government?
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W. 08: Identify how the ideas of the Enlightenment inspired Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence and compare the American Revolution with the French Revolution.
How is the U.S. Constitution a product of the Enlightenment?
Prompt:
Explain how democratic ideals are reflected in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
W.02 Compare documents that establish limits on government in
response to absolute monarchy (i.e. Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights).
W.04: Examine the causes and consequences of the English Civil War.
W. 08: Identify how the ideas of the Enlightenment inspired Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence and compare the American Revolution with the French Revolution.
W. 05: Identify the major causes of the French Revolution including the impact of: The American Revolution
, conflicting social classes, economic factors, Enlightenment political thought
, government corruption Week 3: Democratic Ideals Reading Assignment
Political Cartoon Democratic Ideals Documents
What 3 revolutions led to Democratic Ideals?
What five documents laid the foundation for the development of democratic ideals?
What is the significance of the Glorious Revolution of England?
What was the cause of the American Revolution?
How are all 3 revolutions (Glorious Revolution, American Revolution, French Revolution) similar?
What did the Magna Carta establish?
What is the significance of the English Bill of Rights?
What is the significance of the Declaration of Independence?
What is the significance of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
What is the significance of the U.S. Bill of Rights?
What is the order of the documents (Dec. of Ind., English Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, Dec. Rights of Man and Citizen, U.S. Bill of Rights)?
What are the similarities between the American and French Revolution?
How did each document establish limits on government in response to absolute monarchy?
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and weakness.
W.01: Describe the concept of the divine right of kings as well as the features, strengths and weaknesses of European absolutism, including: Louis XIV, Versailles, and Peter the Great.
W.02 Compare documents that establish limits on government in
response to absolute monarchy (i.e. Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights).
W.03: Compare the major ideas of philosophers during the Age of
Enlightenment, such as Charles-
Louis de Montesquieu, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-
Jacques Rousseau.
W.04: Examine the causes and consequences of the English Civil War.
W. 05: Identify the major causes of the French Revolution including the impact of: The American Revolution
, conflicting social classes, economic factors, Enlightenment political thought
, government corruption Week 4: Summative Assessment on the Age of Revolutions
Summative Assessment Unit 1: Multiple Choice Exam
Summative Assessment Unit 1
: Multiple Choice Exam based on all the material and questions covered in Weeks 1-4.
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and weakness.
W. 08: Identify how the ideas of the Enlightenment inspired Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence and compare the American Revolution with the French Revolution.
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Unit 2: French Revolution (1789-1815)
Textbook Chapter 3
Social Studies Standard: Concept/Assignment
Questions:
Your Response:
W.05: Identify the major causes of the French Revolution, including the impact of:
The American Revolution
Conflicting social classes
Economic factors
Enlightenment political thought
Government corruption and weakness
W.06: Summarize the major events of the French Revolution (e.g., storming of the Bastille, execution of Louis XVI, Reign of
Terror) and trace the evolution of France’s government from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic Empire.
W.07: Analyze the geographic, political, and social factors that contributed to the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire. Week 5: French Revolution
Assignment: M: Introduction to the French Revolution
What were the main causes of the French Revolution?
What is the significance of the storming of the Bastille?
What is the significance of the Tennis Court Oath?
What is the significance of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
What was the Reign of Terror?
How did Napoleon rise to power?
Explain the government phases of the French Revolution and how they occurred: (Hint: Absolute monarchy, democracy, oligarchy, tyranny). W.07: Analyze the geographic, political, and social factors that contributed to the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire.
Week 5: French Revolution
Assignment: Napoleon Bonaparte Graphic Organizer
What were the geographic factors that contributed to the rise
of Napoleon’s empire?
What were the political factors that contributed to
the rise of Napoleon’s empire?
What were the social factors that contributed to
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W.09: Explain the effects of the French Revolution on Europe and the world, including the influence of the Napoleonic Code, Concert of Europe, and Haitian Revolution. the rise of Napoleon’s empire?
What were the geographic factors that contributed to the fall
of Napoleon’s empire?
What were the political factors that contributed to
the fall
of Napoleon’s empire?
What were the social factors that contributed to the fall of Napoleon’s empire?
What was the significance of the Napoleonic Code?
What was the Concert of Europe and its implications for Europe after the French Revolution?
W.08: Identify how the ideas of the Enlightenment inspired Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence and compare the American Revolution with the French Revolution.
Week 6: French Revolution Conclusion
Bellringer: Enlightenment Ideas
The principles of the American Revolution and the French Revolution are similar in many ways-
what are their similarities?
Unlike the French Revolution, the American Revolution produced….
W.05: Identify the major causes of the French Revolution, including the impact of:
The American Revolution
Conflicting social classes
Economic factors
Enlightenment political Week 6: Summative Assessment on the French Revolution
Summative Assessment Unit 1: Multiple Choice Exam
Summative Assessment Unit2
: Multiple Choice Exam based on all the material and questions covered in Weeks 5-6.
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