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7th grade · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 10

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.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 7.C2.1; 7.H2.1 · how revolutions changed governments and citizens' rights

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. The Scientific Revolution used observation: Copernicus said Earth moves around the Sun; Galileo used a telescope.
  2. Enlightenment thinkers argued for rights and limits on power: Montesquieu proposed separate branches; Wollstonecraft argued for women’s rights.
  3. Revolutions followed: America (1775), France (1789), Haiti (1791–1804) and Latin America.

Example: Montesquieu proposed what idea about government? He worried about one ruler holding all power. He suggested splitting power among separate branches. Answer: separating government into branches

Age of Revolutions in Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 2 of 10 in 7th grade Social Studies, after Science & the Enlightenment and before Industry & Empire.

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: Arizona Department of Education

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

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

    • Simón Bolívar
    • Toussaint Louverture
    • Napoleon Bonaparte

  2. Question 2

    The Enlightenment was a movement that…

    • banned all books
    • ended trade
    • used reason to question old ideas about government and society

  3. Question 3

    Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself… of France in 1804.

    • pope
    • president
    • emperor

  4. Question 4

    Mary Wollstonecraft argued for…

    • women's education and rights
    • ending all schools
    • a return to monarchy

  5. Question 5

    The Magna Carta (1215) limited the power of…

    • the English king
    • the Pope
    • the Mongol khan

  6. Question 6

    The revolutions of 1848 in Europe called for…

    • an end to all cities
    • more kings
    • more democracy and national unity

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