Lesson Plans

The Western Heritage ©2000

by Kagan, Ozment, and Turner

Focus Lesson 16

Chapter 24: "The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I"

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
   • 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
   • Impact of global expansion on European culture
2. Political and Diplomatic History
   • The rise and functioning of the modern state in its various forms
   • Relations between Europe and other parts of the world: colonialism, imperialism, decolonization, and global interdependence
   • 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 influence of sanitation and health care practices on society; food supply, diet, famine, disease, and their impact
   • Changing definitions and attitudes toward mainstream groups and groups characterized as "the other"
   • 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
   • Private and state roles in economic activity
   • Development of racial and ethnic group identities

Key Components

• Instructor's Manual: pp. 44–46
• Study Guide and Workbook, Vol. II: pp. 112–121
• Test Item File: pp. 129–134

Key Web Sites

• The Second Industrial Revolution
• Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
• The Emancipation of Women
• Modern Western Civilization: Socialism, Marxism, and Trade Unionism

Key Words and Terms

Suggested Pacing

Test Strategy

Key Concepts

• Second Industrial Revolution
  In the second half of the nineteenth century, several countries on the Continent began to catch up with Britain's industrial might. Germany, led the industrial race to exceed Britain's output and wealth, primarily in heavy industries. With the growth in industry, a new middle class arose. To satisfy its wants, the focus of industry changed to consumer goods, and a more comfortable, middle-class, urban life emerged.
  
  
• Labor and socialism
  As industry grew, so did labor unions. Less violent than unions in the first half of the century, these new unions used the strike and the vote to attempt to improve the conditions of workers. As suffrage spread to more and more people, political parties arose to meet the interests and needs of the newly enfranchised. Socialism, as a major political philosophy of the time, was divided among those who favored revolution for change and those who supported democratic reform.

Summing Up Student Understanding

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Sources of the West, Vol. II, edited by Kishlausky—Part V, "Nineteenth-Century Society and Culture"