L1 & L2: Introduction to the Dual Revolutions and
Modern World History
Agenda
Objectives:
1.
To understand the changes, ideals,
structures, values, and beliefs
brought on by the Industrial
Revolution and French Revolution
and how they define “modern”
history.
Schedule:
1.
Introduction
2.
The Industrial Revolution:
Discussion
3.
The French Revolution:
Discussion
4.
Conclusion
Homework:
1. Read “Factory
Discipline” and
“Factory Rules”
for Lesson 3. See
unit schedule for
questions to think
about.
Orange = Tues 9/2
Yellow = Wed 9/3
The Modern World Begins: The French
Revolution, Industrial Revolution, and the
Transformation of Social, Economic, and
Political Life from 1780 to 1815
Unit Schedule, Assignments, and Assessments
• Review Unit Schedule
What is Modern World History?
• Modernity is a historical time period
from 1800 to the present in which
social, political, and economic life
undergo rapid and drastic change.
– Change in economic systems,
social relationships, government
structures, view of the individual,
view of religion, view equality, etc.
• These changes are shaped by a
new set of beliefs and ideas that
emerge out of two revolutions:
– Industrial Revolution
– French Revolution
1780-1815: Dual Revolution
Modernization Begins!
Industrial Revolution
French Revolution
Together create important economic, political, and
philosophical changes throughout the world that shape the
rest of world history!
French Revolution
Liberty
Equality
Liberalism
Industrial Revolution
Fraternity
LaissezFaire
Economics
Socialism/Marxism
Nationalism
Rise of the
Working
Class
Conservatism
Reaction to the
French Rev
The Industrial Revolution
• What is the Industrial Revolution?
The Industrial Revolution
• 1750 to 1850
• Begins in England
• Definition: Period in which
changes in agriculture,
manufacturing, mining,
transportation, and technology
radically and permanently
changed virtually every aspect
of social, economic, and cultural life such that structures and
values that emerged from the Industrial Revolution remain the
defining structures and values of everyday life today.
• Term revolutionary is misleading
• Not a single event, but an evolutionary change that happens
slowly over 100 years.
• “Revolution” in that the changes that occurred were dramatic,
drastic, and enduring—in short, revolutionary!
The Industrial Revolution
• But what were these radical and enduring changes and what were
the structures and values that they produced?
• Whole Group Discussion (Use Chart to Organize Thoughts):
Attribute
Economic System and Work
Life
Social Relations
Government
Structure/Government
Policies
View of the Individual/ View
of Community
Religion/Reason/Rationality/S
cience
Equality/Inequality
Gender Relations
During the IR
Enduring Effect (Structures,
Ideals, Values)
The French Revolution
• What is the French Revolution?
The French Revolution
• 1789-1799
• Definition: Period of radical
social and political upheaval
and change in France. French
citizens used violence,
government takeover, radical
politics, terror, and war to cast
off old ideas about tradition
and hierarchy monarchy,
aristocracy and religious authority and replace them with
the principles of equality, fraternity, liberty, citizenship, and
inalienable rights.
• Like the Industrial Revolution, the structures and values
that emerged from the French Revolution remain the
defining structure and values of life today.
The French Revolution
• But what were these radical and enduring changes and what were
the structures and values that they produced?
• Whole Group Discussion (Use Chart to Organize Thoughts):
Attribute
Economic System and Work
Life
Social Relations
Government
Structure/Government
Policies
View of the Individual/ View
of Community
Religion/Reason/Rationality/S
cience
Equality/Inequality
Gender Relations
During the FR
Enduring Effect (Structures,
Ideals, Values)
What is the Modern World?
• Consider the
changes/ideals/
structures/values
brought about the
Industrial
Revolution and the
French Revolution
together: What is
the Modern World?
Modern World History
• The world ushered in
by these two
revolutions is the
subject matter for our
course this year.
• The ideals, structures,
values, and beliefs
brought forth by these
revolutions become the dominant ideals, structures,
values, and beliefs of the modern era
• Our project for the year is to understand how these
ideals, structures, values, and beliefs have shifted
and changed over the course of modern world history.
Where We Go From Here
• This unit will look at
how these ideals,
structures, values,
and beliefs took
shape in the 19th
century,
during/immediately
after the Industrial
Revolution and
French Revolution.