Unit 5: Industrial Revolution & Nation-Building

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:

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:

Unit Quote:

"The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'" -Ludwig van Beethoven