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9th grade · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 13

Age of Revolutions

Science, rights and revolutions to 1900

What your child practices

The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, revolutions in England, America, France, Haiti and Latin America, the Industrial Revolution, and the end of slavery and serfdom.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 9.1; 9.2; 9.3 · the Enlightenment, and the American, French, Haitian and Latin American revolutions

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Enlightenment ideas: Locke’s natural rights to life, liberty and property; Montesquieu’s separate branches.
  2. Revolutions spread: America (1775), France (1789), Haiti (1791–1804, led by Toussaint Louverture) and Mexico (1810, begun by Miguel Hidalgo).
  3. Napoleon crowned himself emperor in 1804. James Watt improved the steam engine, driving the Industrial Revolution.

Example: Who led the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804)? It was led by formerly enslaved people. Its best-known leader was Toussaint Louverture. Answer: Toussaint Louverture

Age of Revolutions in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 1 of 13 in 9th grade Social Studies, before The French Revolution & Napoleon.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Isaac Newton described the laws of motion and…

    • electricity
    • evolution
    • gravity

  2. Question 2

    Britain passed a law ending slavery in most of its empire in…

    • 1215
    • 1776
    • 1833

  3. Question 3

    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was written during the…

    • Glorious Revolution
    • French Revolution
    • Haitian Revolution

  4. Question 4

    Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself… of France in 1804.

    • pope
    • emperor
    • president

  5. Question 5

    The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was led by formerly enslaved people such as…

    • Napoleon Bonaparte
    • Simón Bolívar
    • Toussaint Louverture

  6. Question 6

    The Congress of Vienna (1814–1815) aimed to…

    • restore order in Europe after Napoleon
    • colonize the Americas
    • start the French Revolution

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