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G. Economic
and social revolutions
| 1. |
Human and physical geography |
| 2. |
Agrarian revolution |
| 3. |
The British Industrial Revolution |
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| a. |
Capitalism and a
market economy |
| b. |
Factory system |
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| c. |
Shift from mercantilism to laissez-faire
economics—Adam Smith, The Wealth of
Nations |
| d. |
Changes in social classes |
| e. |
Changing roles of men, women,
and children |
| f. |
Urbanization |
| g. |
Responses to industrialization |
1)
Utopian reform — Robert Owen
2)
Legislative reform
3)
Role of unions
4)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and command
economies5) Sadler Report and reform legislation6)
Parliamentary reforms—expansion of suffrage7)
Writers (Dickens and Zola)8) Global migrations
(19th century)
9)
Writings of Thomas Malthus (Essay on the
Principles of Population)
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| 4. |
Mass
starvation in Ireland (1845-1850) |
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| a. |
Growth of Irish
nationalism |
| b. |
Global migration |
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Focus Questions
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What were the important effects of
the Second Agrarian Revolution? |
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Before the Industrial Revolution,
what system was used to produce goods like clothing? |
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Why did the Industrial Revolution
begin where it did? |
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What inventions helped launch the
factory system? |
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What is the connection between the
Industrial Revolution and Adam Smith’s theory
of laissez-faire economics as explained in his
book The Wealth of Nations? |
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Why is the word “revolution” used
to explain the economic, social and political changes
of the Industrial “Revolution?” |
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How has the Industrial Revolution
impacted gender roles and the status of women? |
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What were specific effects of industrialization
on the environment? |
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Why does industrialization cause urbanization? |
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Why did each of the following groups
respond to the Industrial Revolution differently? |
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How did the Industrial Revolution
change the ways societies answer the three basic questions
of economics? |
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What are similarities between the
Industrial Revolution in England in the late 1700s and
the industrialization of developing countries like China
or India today? What are some differences? |
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What were the long-range and immediate
causes of the mass starvation in Ireland which occurred
from 1845-1850? |
| • |
What role did prejudice and ethnocentrism
play in the Irish famine? |
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What effect did The Famine have on: |
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Vocabulary
| abolition |
factory system |
| Agrarian Revolution |
gender roles |
| anti-Semitism |
gender status |
| bourgeoisie/middle
class |
Home Rule |
| capitalism |
laissez-faire capitalism |
| Chartist Movement |
legislative reform |
| command economy |
market economy |
| collective bargaining |
Marxism |
| communism |
matriarchy |
| corporation |
patriarchy |
| crop rotation |
Russian serfdom |
| demographic
shift |
socialism |
| developed nation |
strike |
| developing nation |
suffrage |
| enclosure system |
urbanization |
| entrepreneur |
utopian socialism |
| factors of production |
Zionism |
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Scholarship
Bayly,
C. A. 2004. The
Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914: Global Connections
and Comparisons.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. |
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Braudel,
Fernand (translated by Richard Mayne). 1993.
A History of Civilizations.
New York: Penguin Books. |
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Christian,
David and William H. McNeill. 2004. Maps
of Time: An Introduction to Big History.
Berkley: University of California Press. |
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Diamond,
Jared. 2005. Collapse:
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
New York: Viking. |
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Frank,
Andre Gunder. 1998. ReOrient:
Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
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Goody,
Jack. 1996.
The East in the West. New
York: Cambridge University Press. |
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Landes,
David. 1998. The
Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So
Rich and Some Are So Poor. New
York: Norton and Company. |
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McNeill,
J.R. and William H. McNeill. 2003.
The Human Web: A Bird's Eye View of World History.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company. |
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McNeill,
William H. 1998. Plagues and Peoples.
Garden City, New York: Anchor Press. |
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McNeill,
William H. 1991. The
Rise of the West: A History of Human Community. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press. |
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Pacey,
Arnold. 1990.
Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year
History. Cambridge,
MA: M.I.T. Press. |
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Pomeranz,
Kenneth. 2000. The
Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making
of the Modern World Economy. Princeton:
Princeton University Press. |
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Wolf,
Eric. 1982. Europe
and the People Without History. Berkley:
University of California Press. |
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Helpful Hints
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Literature often provides
excellent sources for studying societies in the middle
of important changes. Have students
identify the works of each of the following, and explain
the point of view of their author(s): |
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Students should understand
that the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions, like the
Neolithic Revolution, led to radical change. Provide
students with opportunities to appreciate that, although
the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain and
Western Europe, but as a process in economic development,
it is just beginning in many places. It is not necessary
for students to investigate all Industrial Revolutions.
Students will be helped by a case study approach: comparing
and contrasting early and later Industrial Revolutions
(Western and non-western). |
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Resources for Teachers (Books/Articles, Visuals/Music)
Bayly,
C. A. 2004. The
Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914: Global Connections
and Comparisons.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. |
| |
Braudel,
Fernand (translated by Richard Mayne). 1993.
A History of Civilizations.
New York: Penguin Books. |
| |
Christian,
David and William H. McNeill. 2004. Maps
of Time: An Introduction to Big History.
Berkley: University of California Press. |
| |
Diamond,
Jared. 2005. Collapse:
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
New York: Viking. |
| |
Frank,
Andre Gunder. 1998. ReOrient:
Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
|
| |
Goody,
Jack. 1996.
The East in the West. New
York: Cambridge University Press. |
| |
Landes,
David. 1998. The
Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So
Rich and Some Are So Poor. New
York: Norton and Company. |
| |
McNeill,
J.R. and William H. McNeill. 2003.
The Human Web: A Bird's Eye View of World History.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company. |
| |
McNeill,
William H. 1998. Plagues and Peoples.
Garden City, New York: Anchor Press. |
| |
McNeill,
William H. 1991. The
Rise of the West: A History of Human Community. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press. |
| |
Pacey,
Arnold. 1990.
Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year
History. Cambridge,
MA: M.I.T. Press. |
| |
Pomeranz,
Kenneth. 2000. The
Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making
of the Modern World Economy. Princeton:
Princeton University Press. |
| |
Wolf,
Eric. 1982. Europe
and the People Without History. Berkley:
University of California Press. |
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Visuals
Early Train in Germany
http://asweb.artsci.uc.edu/german/172/revtrain.jpg |
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Power Loom, Weaving in England
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/core/pics/0253/img0053.jpg |
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Colonialism, Slavery, and the Industrial Revolution
http://www.decsy.org.uk/images/ publications/colonialism.jpg |
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James Watt's Engine, 1774
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/thurston/1878/f26p98.gif |
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Poverty
maps of London 1898
http://booth.lse.ac.uk/cgi-bin/do.pl?
sub=view_booth_and_barth&args=531000,180400,6,large,5
http://booth.lse.ac.uk/ |
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Industrial
revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html#The%
20Industrial%20Revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html |
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2nd Industrial
Revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook35.html |
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Liberalism
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook18.html |
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Irish
Famine
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook20.html |
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Socialism
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook33.html |
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Darwin,
Freud, Einstein
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook36.html |
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The
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm?HomePagLink=toah_1 |
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Assessments
Editor's Note: All state examinations are
aligned to the New York State Learning Standards for Social
Studies and Social Studies Resource Guide with Core Curriculum.
The chart below specifies where these alignments have occurred
(from June 2000 to the present).
| Core
Curriculum: |
Global
History and Geography Regents: |
| 1. |
Human
and physical geography |
| 2. |
Agrarian
revolution |
| 3. |
The
British Industrial Revolution |
| |
a. |
Capitalism
and a market economy |
| |
b. |
Factory
system |
| |
c. |
Shift from
mercantilism to laissez-faire
economics—Adam Smith, The
Wealth of Nations |
| |
d. |
Changes in
social classes |
| |
e. |
Changing roles
of men, women, and children |
| |
f. |
Urbanization |
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g. |
Responses to
industrialization |
|
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June
2000 DBQ, Capitalism vs Communism |
| August 2004 Thematic, Economic
Systems |
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| 1. |
Human and physical
geography |
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January 2003 DBQ, Geographic
Factors on the Political and Economic
Development of Great Britain and
Japan |
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| 3. |
The British
Industrial Revolution |
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August 2005 DBQ, Technological
Changes
June 2006 DBQ, Effects
of the Industrial Revolution on
European Society
August 2007 DBQ, Natural
Resources and the Development of
Nations/Regions |
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| 3. |
The
British Industrial Revolution |
| c. |
Shift
from mercantilism to laissez-faire
economics—Adam Smith, The
Wealth of Nations |
|
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January 2006 Thematic, Change
(Ideas and Beliefs of Philosophers
and Leaders) |
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| 3. |
The
British Industrial Revolution |
| e. |
Changing
roles of men, women, and children |
|
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June 2000 Thematic, Justice
and Human Rights
August 2001 DBQ, Role
of Women |
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| 3. |
The
British Industrial Revolution |
| g. |
Responses
to industrialization |
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January 2001 Thematic, Economic
Change (Industrialization) |
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| 3. |
The
British Industrial Revolution |
| g. |
Responses
to industrialization |
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5)
Sadler Report and reform
legislation |
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June 2000 Thematic, Justice
and Human Rights |
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| 4. |
Mass
starvation in Ireland (1845-1850) |
| a. |
Growth
of Irish nationalism |
| b. |
Global
migration |
|
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August 2003 DBQ, Nationalism
August 2002 DB |
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