Assignment: Causes of the Revolution

WORLD HISTORY-B
2022-12-04T22:51:40Z

Due: Jan 12, 2023 by 11:59pm

Assignment Purpose: As Enlightenment ideas spread, people around the world began to demand individual rights and government reform. When absolute rulers refused to give people these individual rights or reform the government (or do so in law but not in practice), people revolted.

Assignment Overview: You will spend 3 days reading about and researching one of 3 revolutions. Your goal is to figure out what caused your revolution. What long term and short term causes were there? What causes do you think are more important? Instead of writing a paragraph or an essay about what caused your revolution, you will be creating a "recipe" that describes the major causes of your revolution.

1. You will be assigned one of the following revolutions in class.

French Revolution

Haitian Revolution

Latin American Revolutions (Venezuelan, Mexican etc.)

2. On Monday and Tuesday, read or listen/watch the following resources to collect pieces of evidence that explain what CAUSED your revolution. Only use the sources below that relate best to your revolution. You can collect the evidence however you want, though I recommend by taking notes in your notebook.

Ingredients for Revolution (for everyone)

The Atlantic Revolutions (for everyone)

Crash Course: French Revolution

Video: Haitian Revolution

Crash Course: Latin American Revolutions

3. On Wednesday and Thursday, you are writing a "Recipe for Revolution" that explains what CAUSED your revolution. Here is a template for your recipe that you can use, or you can create your own template as long as you include everything from the provided template. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see some AMAZING examples from past years!

Include the following in your recipe:

6 "ingredients for revolution" (these are your causes), provide each with a measurement.

Ingredients should be listed in chronological (time) order

The more important your cause is, the larger the measurement should be.

For example, an important cause could be "3 gallons of resentment towards gender inequality" versus a cause that is not very important could be "a teaspoon of charisma"

If a cause is long term or short term, add amounts of time into your recipe.

Long term: "Set aside the mixture for 30 years"

Short term "Combine the ingredients quickly, best results seen if they are combines in 3 months or less"

Directions on how the ingredients must be combined in order to cause the revolution. These are like the steps of a recipe. Here is a glossary of cooking terms to get you started.

For an A the measurements and the cooking terms must be creative an further the explanation of what caused a revolution in your country.

For example "Combine 3 gallons of taxation without representation with a cup of of now incredibly expensive and sought after tea in a large bowl. Then, mix until frothy and boiling. You'll know you are done when the mixture overflows the bowl and spreads to Boston, Massachusetts. Here, the boiling mixture should ignite the quart of resentment in Boston and explode into the Boston Tea Party"

Here are some examples for inspiration!

France | Haiti | Latin America | United States (we are not doing this one this year)

France

Haiti

Latin America

US 1

US 2

Assignment Purpose: As Enlightenment ideas spread, people around the world began to demand individual rights and government reform. When absolute rulers refused to give people these individual rights or reform the government (or do so in law but not in practice), people revolted.

Assignment Overview: You will spend 3 days reading about and researching one of 3 revolutions. Your goal is to figure out what caused your revolution. What long term and short term causes were there? What causes do you think are more important? Instead of writing a paragraph or an essay about what caused your revolution, you will be creating a "recipe" that describes the major causes of your revolution.

1. You will be assigned one of the following revolutions in class.

French Revolution

Haitian Revolution

Latin American Revolutions (Venezuelan, Mexican etc.)

2. On Monday and Tuesday, read or listen/watch the following resources to collect pieces of evidence that explain what CAUSED your revolution. Only use the sources below that relate best to your revolution. You can collect the evidence however you want, though I recommend by taking notes in your notebook.

Ingredients for Revolution (for everyone)

The Atlantic Revolutions (for everyone)

Crash Course: French Revolution

Video: Haitian Revolution

Crash Course: Latin American Revolutions

3. On Wednesday and Thursday, you are writing a "Recipe for Revolution" that explains what CAUSED your revolution. Here is a template for your recipe that you can use, or you can create your own template as long as you include everything from the provided template. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see some AMAZING examples from past years!

Include the following in your recipe:

6 "ingredients for revolution" (these are your causes), provide each with a measurement.

Ingredients should be listed in chronological (time) order

The more important your cause is, the larger the measurement should be.

For example, an important cause could be "3 gallons of resentment towards gender inequality" versus a cause that is not very important could be "a teaspoon of charisma"

If a cause is long term or short term, add amounts of time into your recipe.

Long term: "Set aside the mixture for 30 years"

Short term "Combine the ingredients quickly, best results seen if they are combines in 3 months or less"

Directions on how the ingredients must be combined in order to cause the revolution. These are like the steps of a recipe. Here is a glossary of cooking terms to get you started.

For an A the measurements and the cooking terms must be creative an further the explanation of what caused a revolution in your country.

For example "Combine 3 gallons of taxation without representation with a cup of of now incredibly expensive and sought after tea in a large bowl. Then, mix until frothy and boiling. You'll know you are done when the mixture overflows the bowl and spreads to Boston, Massachusetts. Here, the boiling mixture should ignite the quart of resentment in Boston and explode into the Boston Tea Party"

Here are some examples for inspiration!

France | Haiti | Latin America | United States (we are not doing this one this year)

France

Haiti

Latin America

US 1

US 2