Lesson Plans

The Western Heritage ©2000

by Kagan, Ozment, and Turner

Focus Lesson 14

Chapter 22: "Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830–1850)"

AP* Course Description

1. Intellectual and Cultural History
   • Scientific and technological developments and their consequences
   • Major trends in literature and the arts
   • Intellectual and cultural developments and their relationship to social values and political events
   • Developments in social, economic, and political thought
   • Developments in literacy, education, and communication
   • The diffusion of new intellectual concepts among different social groups
   • Changes in elite and popular culture, such as the development of new attitudes toward religion, the family, work, and ritual
2. Political and Diplomatic History
   • The rise and functioning of the modern state in its various forms
   • The evolution of political elites and the development of political parties and ideologies
   • The extension and limitation of rights and liberties (personal, civic, economic, and political); majority and minority; political persecutions
   • The growth and changing forms of nationalism
   • Forms of political protest, reform, and revolution
   • Relationship between domestic and foreign policies
   • War and civil conflict: origins, developments, technology, and their consequences
3. Social and Economic History
   • The role of urbanization in transforming cultural values and social relationships
   • The shift in social structures from hierarchical orders to modern social classes: the changing distribution of wealth and poverty
   • The development of commercial practices and their economic and social impact
   • The origins, development, and consequences of industrialization
   • Changes in the demographic structure of Europe, their causes and consequences
   • Gender roles and their influence on work, social structure, family structure, and interest group formation
   • The growth of competition and interdependence in national and world markets
   • Private and state roles in economic activity
   • Development of racial and ethnic group identities

Key Components

• Instructor's Manual: pp. 41–42
• Study Guide and Workbook, Vol. II: pp. 92–102
• Test Item File: pp. 117–123

Key Web Sites

• The Industrial Revolution
• All those "-isms" U.S. Politics: Liberal
• Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
• Revolutions of 1848
• The Revolution of 1848

Key Words and Terms

Suggested Pacing

Test Strategy

Key Concepts

• Developing Economic Theories
  As the Industrial Revolution expanded, classical economists offered pessimistic theories on the direction of society and influenced the response of many governments to the plight of the working class. Growing out of the misery of the working class and the slow progress of positive change, socialist thought focused on the community as the core of its solution. This was in direct opposition to the ideas of the classical economists with their focus on the autonomous individual.
  
  
• 1848 Revolutions
  Across Europe, though primarily scattered through its central region, revolutions broke out in 1848. These were both liberal and nationalist in origin, although there were a variety of immediate causes depending on the area. Unfortunately, no real long-term success was achieved by any of these revolts because reactionary responses quashed any real gains. This is another opportunity for students to review the pattern of revolution and reaction.

Summing Up Student Understanding

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Aspects of Western Civilization, Vol. II, edited by Rogers—Chapter 4
• Sources of the West, Vol. II, edited by Kishlausky—Part V, "Industrialization of Britain"
• The Global Experience, Vol. II, edited by Schwartz, Wimmer, and Wolfe—Chapter 21, Reading 134
• Documents in World History, Vol. II, edited by Stearns, Gosch, and Grieshaber—Section Two, Reading 12