Unit 2: Enlightenment and Revolutions

Students will know:
How Enlightenment ideas created revolutions in France, U.S., Haiti, and Latin America

How ideas created new and dynamic governments

How new ideas created disagreements with new ways of thinking and the old.

MW.His.1.b. Evaluate how the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution shaped institutions in
society (e.g., deism, individual liberty, religious tolerance, reason, scientific
method).
MW.His.2.a. Analyze how the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas influenced revolutions (e.g.,
United States, France, Haiti, Venezuela).
MW.Geo.1.a. Demonstrate spatial awareness by creating maps to illustrate the environmental
characteristics and patterns of trade in early modern world history using digital
technologies (e.g., colonialism, enslavement, imperialism, revolution).
MW.His.1.c. Evaluate the extent to which political and social change was advanced by women
in the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution (e.g., Mary Wollstonecraft,
Margaret Cavendish, Maria Winkleman, Maria Merian).
MW.Civ.2.a. Analyze how theories of government developed in the Age of Enlightenment
represented new ideas about the balance between rights of the individual and
power of the government.

Recommended but not limited to:

Analyze Primary and Secondary Sources

Create an argumentative essay 

Project on comparing different versions of Democracy

Create a project on Reformation

Graphic Organizer on the Scientific Revolution