Lesson
The Global Impact of the American Revolution DBQ
This Lesson can be used at the beginning of Chapter 4 to reinforce and review the key events of the American Revolution covered in Chapter 3. This activity will also introduce students to the effects the Revolution had on the world stage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Objectives:
- Students will consider the extent to which there was a connection between the American Revolution and revolutions in France, Haiti, and Latin America.
- Students will systematically analyze primary sources by answering comprehension questions for each document.
- Students will write a thesis statement that responds to a document-based question prompt.
Materials
Lesson Components
ActivityLegacy of the American Revolution Student Document Packet
A set of primary sources (including images) that seek to answer the question to what extent was there a connection between the American Revolution and revolutions in France, Haiti, and Latin America?
Lesson plan
90 minClick a phase to open it
Standards
Advanced Placement
- Topic 3.6 · The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals
- Theme · America in the World
- Learning Objective · Unit 3G
- Historical Development · 3.2.I.E
- Reasoning Skill · Developments and Processes
- Reasoning Skill · Sourcing and Situation
- Reasoning Skill · Source Claims and Evidence
- Reasoning Skill · Contextualization
- Reasoning Skill · Making Connections
- Reasoning Skill · Argumentation
- Reasoning Process · Comparison
- Reasoning Process · Causation
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