Unit 5: Industrial Revolution & Nation-Building
Unit Goals:
Unit Goals:
- Students will analyze the cultural, social, and economic changes that occurred as a result of industrialization and the Industrial Revolution
- Students will explain the changing roles of class and gender as a result of economic changes during the Industrial Revolution
- Students will describe conditions in early factories
- Students will explain how industrialization and the railroad are related
- Students will examine the roles of nationalism, imperialism, and religion in the building and development of nations
- Students will summarize the concepts and results of the rise of commercial trading centers and urbanization, and their effects on social, political, and economic institutions around the world
- Students will analyze the rise of national economies, the emergence of free markets, and democratic capitalism including the development of the nation state
- Students will analyze the causes and consequences of nationalist responses to European empires in Europe and around the World
- Students will summarize the impact of imperialism and colonial rule on African, Asian, and Latin American peoples and the resulting independence movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
5.1: capitalism, socialism, communism, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, dictator
5.2: tenement, textile, assembly line
6.4: assembly line, interchangeable parts, mass production, monopoly
6.5: steam engine, textile
6.6: suffrage, romanticism, realism, impressionism, post-impressionism
6.7: nationalism, social Darwinism, jingoism, conservatism, liberalism
Lessons:
Lessons:
Unit Quote:
Unit Quote:
"The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'" -Ludwig van Beethoven