Unit+4+1750+to+1914

1. Questions of Periodization 1750-1914 2. Changes in global commerce, communications, and technology 3. Demographic and environmental changes 4. Changes in social and gender structure 5. Political revolutions and independence movements; new political ideas 6. Rise of Western dominance 7.  Diverse Interpretations 1750 to 1914
 * Are there continuities and breaks between the chronological periods?
 * What are the causes of changes from the previous period and within this period?
 * What is the evidence of the changes?
 * What are the changes in patterns of world trade? Are there continuities?
 * How did the Industrial Revolution transform industrial and scientific developments?
 * What effects did the Industrial Revolution have societal institutions and gender roles?
 * Are the commonalities in the changes across cultures?
 * Analyze the migration patterns of this period.
 * What are the causes of the end of the Atlantic slave trade?
 * What impact did the changes in global commerce, communications, and technology have on birthrate patterns, medicine and food supply.
 * How did the Industrial Revolution impact the following: commercial and demographic developments? emancipation of serfs/slaves?
 * Explain the social tension that resulted as ideas about work patterns and gender changed.
 * Compare and contrast the roles of women in various cultures during this time period, i.e., China vs.England
 * Describe the various Latin American independence movements and the birth of the United States.
 * Using two of the following Revolutions, outline the stages of revolutionary progress: French, Haiti, Mexico, China Revolutions
 * Explain the rise of Nationalism, nation-states, and movements of political reform.
 * Describe the rise of democracy and its limitations with regard to: reform, women, and race relations
 * Describe the economic, political, social, military, cultural, and artistic, patterns of expansion, including Imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, as well as different cultural and political reactions (dissent, reform, resistance, rebellion, racism, nationalism).
 * Explain the impact of changing European ideologies on colonial administrations.
 * What are the debates about the causes of serf and slave emancipation in this period and how do these debated fit into broader comparisons of labor systems?
 * What are the debates over the nature of women’s roles in this period and how do these debates apply to industrialized areas and how do they apply in colonial societies?
 * What are the debates over the causes of European (mostly British) technological innovations versus developments in Asia (mostly China)