Below are each of the major themes and key concepts from this unit.
Each key concept has questions for you to answer. Answer each question with as much detail as you remember and use the linked videos to help you fill in any information that you may be missing.
How does the Enlightenment lead to the Atlantic Revolutions?
Think of the main themes
What is nationalism and what was the impact of it on later Revolutions.
Explain how the Enlightenment affected societies over time.
How did the ideas of the Enlightenment inspire religious reform, abolition, and women's rights?
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Olympe de Gouges’s Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
Seneca Falls Conference (1848) organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Explain causes and effects of the various revolutions in the period from 1750 to 1900:
American Revolution (don't dive too deeply on this one, College Board rarely focuses on this in WHAP)
French Revolution
Haitian Revolution
Latin American Revolutions
Know the concept of nationalism and how it inspired various independence movements:
People around the world developed a new sense of commonality based on language, religion, social customs, and territory. This is the basis of nationalism.
How did these newly imagined national communities link this new national identity with borders of the state?