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7th grade · Social Studies · Unit 8 of 9

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.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: History 1; Civics & Government 1 · Enlightenment ideas and the revolutions that shaped democratic government

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 Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, this is unit 8 of 9 in 7th grade Social Studies, after Renaissance & Reformation and before World Timeline 600–1900.

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: Maine 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

    Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself… of France in 1804.

    • pope
    • emperor
    • president

  2. Question 2

    The Industrial Revolution began in…

    • Brazil
    • Japan
    • Britain

  3. Question 3

    In 1804, Haiti became the first…

    • nation founded after a successful revolt of enslaved people
    • kingdom in Europe
    • colony in Africa

  4. Question 4

    Galileo used a… to study the planets and moons.

    • compass
    • telescope
    • microscope

  5. Question 5

    A written constitution limits government by…

    • setting out its powers and the people's rights
    • ending elections
    • giving the ruler unlimited power

  6. Question 6

    Russia's serfs were freed in…

    • 1861
    • 1066
    • 1945

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