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Midwives of Modernity: the French & Industrial Revolutions
Modern World History – Lickey
Intro: The Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution are to my mind the “two midwives of modernity”. Together
they deliver to us the modern world we live in -for better and for worse. The French (and to a lesser extent the American)
Revolution teaches that society itself can be consciously made anew if the people are united in a shared political vision
and willingness to sacrifice for it. The Revolution introduced the world to the potential of nationalism to provide an
alternative to religion as an organizing belief system in human society. The new religion of nationalism would becoming
the basis of for social security in modern societies just as science was replacing religion as the source of certainty and
knowledge in the modern world. In 1938 the historian Crane Brinton wrote a book called the Anatomy of Revolution. In
this book he suggests that Revolutions go through a sequence of stages. We will use his theory to help structure our
learning about the French Revolution, then apply then see if that anatomy is helpful in understanding other more
contemporary revolutions around the world.
Industrialization can be defined as the shift to using externally powered, internally guided machines in factories to
produce goods that are distributed to wide markets. On the plus side, this shift brought and continues to bring wealth,
power, comfort, amusement, and liberal (value the individual and their liberty) values. On the debit side of the ledger
industrialization brought – and continues to bring - alienation of people from work, unemployment, new class hierarchies,
increasing lethality to war, and ecological destruction on the down side. The Industrial Revolution occurred first in
Britain. We will ask why. After getting going in Britain, Industrialization spread to other centers of Europe, America, and
by the end of the 19th Century to Japan. The British that dominated industry early on fell behind America and Germany in
a second wave of Industrialization that took place in the late 19th Century. Today, China has displaced our nation for that
title. Is that something to be worried about? The basic process of industrialization whereby machines replace human labor
and skill thus increasing the amount of work that gets done but leaving workers adrift without jobs and with skills that no
longer are valued is very much a feature of our own age and as such is something you should be thinking about. Now we
say “go to college if you want to get ahead,” but can you imagine computers and robots (machines) doing the things that
doctors, attorneys, and other professionals do? I can.
Required Reading:
Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction – Chapter 6, Section 2
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 9
Primary Source Documents: “City of God” St. Augustine, “What is the Third Estate” Abbe Sieyes, “Declaration of the Rights of Man and
Citizen” National Assembly, “Levy en Mass” National Convention, “Law of Suspects” National Convention, “Decree Against Profiteers” National
Convention, “The Division of Labor” Adam Smith, “Sadler Commission: Report on Child Labor”, “Self-Help & Thrift” Sam Smiles, “Prostitution
in Victorian London” Meyhew
Terms to know for quizzes, projects, and papers
Chapter 6, Sec. 2
Enlightenment
Hobbes’s Social Contract
Locke’s Natural Rights Shared beliefs of the Philosophes
Voltaire’s Tolerance
Montesquieu’s Separation of Power Beccaria & Criminal Justice
Women in the Enlightenment
3 Legacies of the Enlightenment
Chaper 7
The Old Order Forces of Change National Assembly
Storming the Bastille
The Great Fear Reforms of the-National
Assembly (2)
Divisions/Factions Develop
France at War 1792
Jacobins take Control
Trial of the King
Maximillian Robespierre
The Reign of Terror Napoleon Seizes Power
Napoleon Rules France/restores order(3 things)
Napoleon Creates an Empire
Napoleon’s Mistakes
Metternich’s Plan for Europe
Ch. 9
Industrial Revolution
The Agricultural Revolution
Improvements in Transportation (3) Industrial Cities Rise
Inventions Spur Industrialization
Living Conditions
Working Conditions
The Middle Class The Working Class
Positive Effects of Industrialization Industrial Development in the United States
Continental Europe Industrializes Global Impact of Industrialization The Philosophers of Industrialization (Laissez faire economic
theory) The Rise of Socialism
Marx’s Radical Solution
Capitalism vs. Socialism Labor Unions and Reform Laws
Provocative Questions:
1) Should the French and Industrial Revolutions be praised or condemned?
2) Why do people committed to the universal and inalienable human rights resort to terrorism and
dictatorship?
3) What is The Social Question and how should it be answered?
Schedule of Lessons:
Lesson #1
Unit Intro: Lecture: Early Modern Europe – Breaking the Great Chain
Asn: Cornell Notes
Reading: Chapter 6, Sec. 2 – Notes in Notebook for quiz
Reading: APPARTS – “City of God”
Lesson #2
Enlightenment Faces: Pair Work
Asn: Create a “Character Collage” of an influential 18th Century Political Philosopher
Activity: Enlightenment Gallery Walk
Read: Chapter 7 Sec. 1 & 2 – Notes for Quiz
Lesson #3
Lecture: The structure of the French Revolution & Causes of the Revolution
Activity: Reading Tale of Two Cities, Chapter 10 & the ultimate cause of the French Revolution
Asn: Guided Note taking from text
Reading: APPARTS – “What is the 3rd Estate” Abby Sieyes
Lesson #4
National Assembly Debates a New Constitution for France
Lecture & Reading: 1st Phase of the French Revolution
Asn: Class “Debate”: A meeting of the National Assembly ca. 1791
Reading: “What is the Third Estate” & “Declaration of the Rights of Man”
Lesson #5
Second Stages of the French Revolution in Documents: APPARTS
“Levy en Masse” National Convention, “Law of Suspects” National Convention, “Decree Against
Profiteers” National Convention
Lesson #6
Lesson #7
Lesson #8
Lesson #9
Lesson #10
Lesson #11
Read: Chapter 7, Sections 3,4 – Notes for quiz
Film: French Revolution
Asn: Focusing Questions & Cornell Notes
Discussion & Guided Note Taking: Napoleon Bonaparte: Son of 89 or SOB?
Asn: Project: French Revolution, Comic/Graphic History in Three Stages
Industrial Revolution: Intro & Film: Credit Where Credit is Due
Asn: focusing questions & Cornel Notes
Reading: Chapter 9, Sec. 1&2 – Notes for Quiz
Document Analysis: Exploring the Social & Human Impacts of the Revolution
Read: “Self-Help & Thrift”, “Saddler Commission Report…”, “Prostitution in Victorian
London” “Conditions of the Working Class in England” Fredrick Engels
Asn: Jig Saw Document Response
Read: Chapter 9, Sec 3& 4 – Notes for Quiz
Project: Flow Chart of the Industrial Revolution
Reading: Future of Manufacturing (Short article from Scientific American)
Reading: The Future of Work – Article from The Atlantic Monthly considering how automation will
affect the workforce, politics, and society in the near future.