Standards

Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

WHS.1E Identify major causes and describe the major effects of the following important turning points in world history from 1750 to 1914: the Scientific Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and its impact on the development of modern economic systems, European imperialism, and the Enlightenment's impact on political revolutions.

WHS.19A Explain the development of democratic‐republican government from its beginnings in Judeo‐Christian legal tradition and classical Greece and Rome through the French Revolution.

WHS.19B Identify the impact of political and legal ideas contained in the following documents: Hammurabi's Code, the Jewish Ten Commandments, Justinian's Code of Laws, Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

WHS.19C Explain the political philosophies of individuals such as John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, and William Blackstone.

WHS.26D Describe the origins of the Scientific Revolution in 16th century Europe and explain its impact on scientific thinking worldwide.

WHS.26E Identify the contributions of significant scientists such as Archimedes, Copernicus, Eratosthenes, Galileo, Pythagoras, Isaac Newton, and Robert Boyle.

WHS.28C Analyze primary and secondary sources to determine frame of reference, historical context, and point of view.

WHS.28E Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause and‐effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, drawing inferences and conclusions, and developing connections between historical events over time.

WHS.30AUse social studies terminology correctly.

WHS.30C Interpret and create written, oral, and visual presentations of social studies information. 

The American and French Revolutions in Context

WHS.9A Compare the causes, characteristics, and consequences of the American and French revolutions, emphasizing the role of the Enlightenment.

WHS.9B Explain the impact of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Napoleonic Wars on Europe and Latin America.

WHS.9C Trace the influence of the American and French revolutions on Latin America, including the role of Simón Bolivar.

WHS.9D Identify the influence of ideas such as separation of powers, checks and balances, liberty, equality, democracy, popular sovereignty, human rights, constitutionalism, and nationalism on political revolutions.

WHS.19B Identify the impact of political and legal ideas contained in the following documents: Hammurabi's Code, the Jewish Ten Commandments, Justinian's Code of Laws, Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

WHS.28E Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause and‐effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, drawing inferences and conclusions, and developing connections between historical events over time.

WHS.28F Construct a thesis on a social studies issue or event supported by evidence. WHS.30AUse social studies terminology correctly.

WHS.31A Use problem‐solving and decision‐making processes to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options, consider advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution, and evaluate the effectiveness of the solution.