Unit prompt
Unit:
Rise of the Nation-State
Purpose: One Big Idea
The climax of the story of the enlightenment is 19 th century Europe. The birth of revolution in American spread quickly across the Atlantic into France across Europe, into Africa and Asia. Nations were no longer formed based on loyalty to a monarch but rather loyalty to the people with a common culture, belief system, or history forming the most powerful force on earth Nationalism.
Social Studies Standard
SS-HS-1.2.2 Students will interpret the principles of limited government (e.g., rule of law, federalism, checks and balances, majority rule, protection of minority rights, separation of powers) and evaluate how these principles protect individual rights and promote the "common good.”
DOK 3
Relationship to Unit
During the early to mid 1800’s the people of Europe were fighting to create a system modeled after the American experiment. Social leaders sought to create a government that was limited and ruled by the people rather than a government ruled by tyranny in order to protect their individual rights.
SS-HS-2.1.1 Students will explain how belief systems, knowledge, technology and behavior patterns define cultures and help to explain historical perspectives and events in the modern world (1500 A.D. to present) and United States
(Reconstruction to present). DOK 2
SS-HS-5.1.1 Students will use a variety of tools (e.g., primary and secondary sources, data, artifacts) to analyze perceptions and perspectives (e.g., gender, race, region, ethnic group, nationality, age, economic status, religion, politics, geographic factors) of people and historical events in the modern world
(1500 A.D. to present) and United States History
(Reconstruction to present).
The decline of the absolute monarch was a goal that many societies sought during the 19 th century. Each new nationstate created during this time period had its own set of core beliefs. The rise and fall of empires around the world was based on different cultural patterns leading to the birth of a new Europe.
The use of primary and secondary sources help students gain a real life perspective on how the past is connected to the present.
SS-HS-5.1.2 Students will analyze how history is a series of connected events shaped by multiple cause and effect relationships, tying past to present.
SS-HS-5.3.3 Students will analyze how an Age of
Revolution brought about changes in science, thought, government and industry (e.g., Newtonian physics, free trade principles, rise of democratic principles, development of the modern state) that shaped the modern world, and evaluate the long range impact of these changes on the modern world. DOK 3
The French Revolution set off a series of events leading to the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte effecting nations all around the world including the United States, Prussia,
Russia, Haiti, ect. The ideas of revolution quickly spread across Europe leading to the development of new nations in Europe, North and South America, and Asia.
Revolution was sweeping the globe during the 19 th century bring changes to government, economics, and culture. New nations emerged, old nations collapsed, and culture mixing led to a growing globalized economic market.

Lesson Title
French Revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte
Congress of Vienna
Global Nationalism
Rise and fall of European empires
Reflections of nationalism
Main Ideas
1. Identifying the three estates of the old regime
2. Summarizing the factors that led up to the French
Revolution
3. Analyzing the Declaration of the Rights of Man
1. Summarizing the steps Napoleon took to restore order in France
2. Analyzing the mistakes leading to Napoleon’s fall
3. Analyzing the long-term impact of Napoleon’s reign
1. Analyzing the goals of the assembly of European leaders
2. Discussing the long term affects of the peace treaty.
1. Define nationalism and its importance to the modern world
2. Analyze the links that bind people into a nationstate
1. Explain how nationalism affects empires
2. Explain the shift in the balance of power among nations
1. Analyze the artistic and intellectual movements that reflected and fueled changes in Europe
Lesson Title
French Revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte
Congress of Vienna
Global Nationalism
Rise and fall of European Empires
Quiz Points
10 Questions 10
10 Questions 10
10 Questions 10
10 Questions 10
10 Questions 10
Reflections of Nationalism
Assessments
Formative (quizzes, worksheets, ect)
Summative (Unit Exam)
ACT Preparation Reading Assignments
Total:
10 questions 10
Points
120
50
25
195
Homework
Daily sheet/ Reading Guide/story book
Daily Sheet/ Reading Guide/story book
Daily Sheet/ Reading Guide/ story book
Daily Sheet/ Reading
Guide/creating a nation state
Daily Sheet/Reading Guide
Daily sheet/Realism
Points
10
10
10
10
10
10

Unit:
Rise of the Nation State
Lesson:
World Civilization Daily Sheet
Global Nationalism
Section: Pages: Date:
Purpose of the Lesson:
Under the leadership of Prince Clemens von Metternich of Austria, the Congress of Vienna had tried to restore the old monarchies and territorial divisions that existed before the French Revolution. Over the next 100 years European countries seldom turned to war to solve their differences until the tied of nationalism arose with in central Europe. The ideas of the French Revolution spread east into central Europe causing the balance of power to collapse and new nations to rise.
Objectives:
1. Define nationalism and its importance to the modern world
2. Analyze the links that bind people into a nation-state
I Can . . .
Explain what led to the nationalist revolt in Latin America.
Answer the I can as if it were a question
Explain the result of the uprisings of 1848.
Explain the liberal choice for power in 19
Europe. th century
Describe multiple examples of nationalism.
Determine the key characteristic of nationalism.
Describe radical ideas of the time period and can give an example.
Essential Question – Answer in no less than 3 sentences
In what ways were the events in Europe and Latin America related?

Radical
Nationalism
Nation-State
The Balkans
Louis-Napoleon
Alexander II
Terms
Simone Bolivar
Peninsulare
Creole
Mulatto
Jose de San Martin
Miguel Hidalgo
Jose Maria Morelos
Conservative
Liberal
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Procedure:
Day 1
1. Fill out the daily sheet then begin reading the assigned pages while attendance is taken.
2. Class discussion on the objectives and I can statements: How do you think they are related to each other?
3. Class lecture/discussion and the importance of Global Nationalism
4. Discuss possible answers to the Essential Question
5. Class work/Homework – I can Statements, and Vocabulary.
Day 2
1. Discuss the ‘I can” Statements and their relationship to the objectives.
2. Work on and complete the Nation-state assignment
4. Answer Essential question through a class discussion
Day 3
1. Check off work from Lesson 2
2. Lesson Quiz
3. ACT preparation Reading assignment
Assignments:
1. Daily Sheet
2. Reading Guide/ Nation State assignment
3. Lesson Quiz
ACT Preparation Reading Assignment
Points
5
10
10
5
Due Date

Prompt:
Inspired by the enlightenment and French Revolutions the people of Europe and Latin America rebelled against their governments as a response to nationalistic calls for independence.
Directions
Pretend you are a part of a Nation and your people want independence. As a group describe your nation by answer the following questions.
Rubric:
In order to get full credit all questions must be answered in sentence form.

Questions
Create Your Own Nation-State
Names__________________________________________________________________
Pretend you are a part of a Nation and your people want independence from Austria. As a group describe your nation. Answer the following questions
1. What is your nationality?
2. What type of language do you speak?
3. Describe your culture
4. Describe your history
5. Explain your religion
6. Describe your territory by giving a location and its landscape
7. Why do you want you independence? Must be answered in at least one paragraph.

Reading Guide – French Revolution
Directions: Answer each question using complete sentences.
1. How did the French Revolution affect the colonist in the Americas?
2. How was the Spanish colonial society structured?
3. What was the importance of the Haitian revolution to the rest of Latin America?
4. Would Creole revolutionaries tend to be democratic or authoritarian leaders? Explain.
5. How were events in Europe related to the revolutions in Latin America?
6. List and the 6 bonds of a nation-state.
7. Why would Europeans support the Greek revolutionary movement?
8. Why did France’s third republic fail?
9. What was the driving force behind Russia’s industrial expansion?
10. How would you describe the political swings occurring in France between 1830-1852?
11. Why might liberals and radicals joins together for a nationalist cause?
12. Why weren’t the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 successful?