Q1. The milestone is not asking you to use the historical thinking skill of comparison on all of these events.  It is asking you to compare the American and French Revolution.  Then it is asking you to the historical thinking skill of turning point on the Industrial Revolution.  Then it is asking you to use the historical thinking skill of historical empathy on World War I.  You are not explaining the events fully.  There is more to compare between the American and French Revolution. Below are questions that will help you complete this milestone activity.  You will have to look at the information in the learning outcome to answer these questions.  But all of the answers to the questions together to create your 3 essays.  If you have questions, let me know. Comparing American and French Revolution 1.  What types of governments did each country have? 2.  Why were people in both countries upset about taxes? 3.  Why did the British think they weren't represented in British Parliament? 4.  Why did the French lower class or Third Estate think they weren't represented in the French Parliament? 5.  How did the British Colonists and the French Third Estate use the ideas of the Enlightenment especially John Locke to verify their actions? 6.  What happened after the British colonists gained their freedom? 7.  How did the French Revolution become more complicated than the American Revolution? 8.  Why did the French end up with the dictator Napoleon and the Americans ended up with a more democratic government?

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The milestone is not asking you to use the historical thinking skill of comparison on all of these events.  It is asking you to compare the American and French Revolution.  Then it is asking you to the historical thinking skill of turning point on the Industrial Revolution.  Then it is asking you to use the historical thinking skill of historical empathy on World War I.  You are not explaining the events fully.  There is more to compare between the American and French Revolution.

Below are questions that will help you complete this milestone activity.  You will have to look at the information in the learning outcome to answer these questions.  But all of the answers to the questions together to create your 3 essays.  If you have questions, let me know.

Comparing American and French Revolution

1.  What types of governments did each country have?

2.  Why were people in both countries upset about taxes?

3.  Why did the British think they weren't represented in British Parliament?

4.  Why did the French lower class or Third Estate think they weren't represented in the French Parliament?

5.  How did the British Colonists and the French Third Estate use the ideas of the Enlightenment especially John Locke to verify their actions?

6.  What happened after the British colonists gained their freedom?

7.  How did the French Revolution become more complicated than the American Revolution?

8.  Why did the French end up with the dictator Napoleon and the Americans ended up with a more democratic government?

Turning Point – Industrial Revolution

1.        What was the Industrial Revolution?

2.       Where did it start?  Why did it start there?

3.        What type of power was used to make the new types of machinery operate?

4.       What type of machines were first invented in the Industrial Revolution?  How did these machines change the way cloth was made?

5.       What changes were made to how people worked as a result of the Industrial Revolution?

6.       How did the Industrial Revolution change society and work so much that things could never go back to how things were prior to the Revolution? – this is the turning point

Historical Empathy – World War I

1.        Why were young men so enthusiastic to join their country’s military to fight in the war?  How was this tied to nationalism?

2.       What did these young men experience at the front of the war?

3.       What is trench warfare?  How does it operate?  Why was it so terrible?

4.       How did these young men live in the trenches?

5.       What was fighting like?  What was no-man’s land?

6.       What was shell shock?  What impact did it have on World War I soldiers/veterans?

7.       What was gassing?  What impact did it have on World War I soldiers/veterans?

8.       How does knowing how these men lived and what they experienced help us to empathize with  World War I soldiers/veterans?  How does this help us see the war through the eyes of the men who fought in it? – this is the historical empathy part.

 
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