Answer the following questions about the presentation and the worksheet:
1. ¿What were the causes of the American Revolution? (Look for information in the worksheet and in the presentation (slides 3 to 7)
2. The British Army was the most powerful in the world. Why did they lose this war? (slide 12)
3. What were the main principles of the American Constitution?
4. What does national sovereingnty mean? And census male suffrage?
The
Assembly of parliamentarians was an extralegal meeting held in Barcelona and later in Madrid between July and October 1917 in which a group of deputies and senators
took part to solve the important political, economic and social problems in
Spain. They decided to introduce constitutional reforms and the improvement of
the educational, military and justice systems, apart from more autonomy for Spanish
regions and the development of a truly free electoral process. They even called for a general strike in August. However, the strike was controlled;
the meeting was declared illegal and the Guardia Civil interrupted the assembly. The assembly was led by the catalanist Francesc Cambó, who wanted not only a wide autonomy for Catalonia, but, according to his words: «... españolizar nuestro movimiento, ligándolo a una empresa general española que
nosotros iniciaríamos y dirigiríamos»1. «Cataluña, en un momento de la historia de España que puede ser épico y
puede ser trágico, siente toda la grandeza y toda la generosidad de la misión
salvadora de España».2 Referencias: 1. Juliá, Santos (1999). pp. 55 - 56: "Un siglo de España: política y sociedad" 2. Moreno Luzón, Javier (2009).
domingo, 6 de noviembre de 2016
Watch the following video about the Industrial Revolution ant try to answer the questions below:
Where did most people work in the late 1700?
Where did these important changes and innovations appear?
What did the new machines achieve?
Where did the mechanization begin?
Families moved from ______ _____________ of their ancestors to new ___________ __________
What is the new social class?
How many people were employed by industrialists?
What did the workers and reformers form to protect themselves from the abuses of the industrialists?
A ten-year-old mill girl says they were paid:
Two dollars a day
Two dollars a week
Two hundred dollars a month
She had to work
From 8 am to 2 pm
From 7 o'clock in the morning to 7 in the evening
From 5 o'clock in the morning to 7 in the evening
What is it called the world where we live today? Why?
One
of the biggest problems of the early Industrial Revolution was how to transport
huge quantities of goods. Water had been one route before, through rivers and
coasts. There were many navigable rivers in Britain, but they did not go where
industry needed them to. In 1761, the first modern canal in Britain was built:
the Bridgewater Canal to deliver coal
from mines in Worsley to industrial Manchester. It was extended later to
Liverpool to carry cotton. Later on,
hundreds of miles of canals were built to link major rivers and major cities. Although
coal could be transported easily and was cheap, it was very slow.
Canals
were expensive and difficult to build. Building canals in agricultural areas
was problematic. SOURCE 2: RAILWAY
A.The
building of the railways had a big impact on Britain.
It
created jobs, made goods cheaper, spread information faster (post and news) and changed the
landscape in the countryside. In Britain in the 19th century:
People were able to travel greater distances for leisure and for work. For example, the railways made cheap day trips possible and coastal areas developed and provided work and created more jobs.
Canals and stage-coach companies could not compete with the speed of the railways. Townspeople were able to receive fresh meat, fish, milk and vegetables brought in by the railway.
Industry grew as the railways needed coal and iron. Railways, in turn, allowed factories to transport their goods to market more quickly.
Newspapers could be sent from London all over the country and the post became faster.
B. The railways created jobs in the
railway industry. They also created jobs in the coal and iron industries. They
also helped to reduce the cost of transporting or moving goods from one place
to another. This in turn meant that the people who made these goods could sell them cheaper. Once these goods became cheaper, more people could buy them so the
people who made them had to make more of them, which created even more jobs. The railways did not just change the way goods
were transported. They changed the way people travelled about the country.
Instead of travelling on mail coaches people started to travel by train, which
was not only cheaper but also faster.
Read the document: Extract from the Declaration of the Human Rights of Man and of Citizen and answer:
a) What are the rights of man and citizen?
b) Where is the source of all sovereignty? b) What are the limits of the rights of each individual? What is freedom? (Art. 4) c) How can the citizens' freedom be limited? (Art. 5) d) Who makes the law? What must the law be like? (Art. 6) e) How is the right of equality defined in the document? f) Why do citizens have to pay taxes? What should they (the taxes) be like?
g) How is the property described in the document?
h) When was this document written? Who wrote it?
In
the late 1800s imperialist European nations gained control over much of Africa.
Imperialism
is the domination of one country’s political, economic and cultural life by
another. European
countries had been establishing colonies and building empires since the late
1400s. Imperialism
brought wealth and power to Europeans, but the people living in colonies were often
oppressed, abused and in some cases even killed.
"In
fourty years Europe gobbled up
virtually all of Africa south of the Sahara with
tremendous brutality. The purpose of this conquest, like most conquest in
History, was to make money for the conquerors and they did so hand over fist and killed millions of
people in the process”
Most
European thought colonization was essentially a noble undertaking. After all, they said Europeans had strong economies,
well – organized governments and powerful armies and navies, meanwhile African
nations were troubled by economic weakness and political divisions.
The
transatlantic slave trade which did not end until the end of 1800s had
drastically reduced the population of African societies. The slave trade had
also contributed to inter – tribal warfare.
European
powers were fueled by the technology and the Industrial Revolution.
New
weapons and steam powered locomotives and ships gave European the ability to
move quickly and fight wars with proven
efficiency. European manufactories wanted to access to natural resources such as rubber and petroleum.
African
colonies could also service vital ports for European merchants and naval ships.
European
missionaries urged Africans to give up their traditional beliefs and accept
western ways of religion.
Missionaries
opened hospitals and schools throughout the colonies.
Sometimes,
they also furthered the political
and economic goals of imperialist nations.
Many
Europeans exploited and oppressed native Africans. Some of the worst oppression
occurred in the Congo. King Leopold and other wealthy Belgians exploited the
land and people in the Congo. African labours were forced to harvest ivory and rubber. Conditions were so horrible that the population in some
areas declined drastically. Belgian exploitation of the Congo set offascrambled for colonies. Britain,
France and Germany rush to make claims in the region.
But
Joseph Conrad, a British seaman, witnessed the hurts of imperialism in Africa
and was moved to write a novel about the dark side of imperialism. Conrad’s
novel:“Heart of darkness” is a story of
a journey up a great river, deep into the Belgian Congo. A businessman named
Marlow is sent into the Congo to discover what has happened to a riverboat
station chief named Kurtz. When Marlow finally finds Kurtz, he is horrified by
what he sees. Kurtz has gone insane. He has set himself up as a kind of pagan god. He demands total obedience and his reign brings death to the jungle.
Conrad’s
novel brought the horrors of the imperialism into light for the European
readers, but it did not in the scramble for colonies.
By
the early 1900s only Liberia and Ethiopia had resisted the European
colonization. For the rest of Africa, there lay ahead a
long and difficult struggle for independence.
Realiza un mapa conceptual sobre las diferentes etapas de la II República española y acontecimientos o aspectos principales en cada una de ellas. Para ello tendrás que sintetizar la información que aparece en tu libro de texto.
Aunque podéis utilizar la estructura que consideréis oportuna, sugiero que el mapa lo iniciéis de la siguiente forma: (no olvidéis poner la fecha de cada periodo)
“The earth
was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was … The
country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man’s business to
divide it… I see the whites all over the country gaining wealth, and see their
desire to give us lands which are worthless… The earth and myself are of one
mind. The measure of the land and the measure of our bodies are the same. Say
to us if you can say it, that you were sent by the Creative Power to talk to
us. Perhaps you think the Creator sent you here to dispose of us as you see
fit. If I thought were sent by the Creator I might be induced to think you had
a right to dispose of me. Do not misunderstand me, but understand me fully with
reference to my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do
with as I chose. The one who has the right to dispose of it is the one who has
created it. I claim a right to live on my land, and accord you the privilege to
live on yours.”
Heinmot Tooyalaket (Chief Joseph) of the Nez Percés
U.S.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Annual Report, 1873, p.527
Read the preamble of the constitution of 1978 and answer the following questions:
What does it mean Spain is a Social and Democratic State and a State of law?
Preamble
The Spanish Nation, desiring to establish justice, liberty, and security, and
to promote the well-being of all its members, in the exercise of its
sovereignty proclaims its will to: guarantee democratic coexistence
within the Constitution and the laws in accordance with a just economic and social order; consolidate a state of law which insures the rule of law as the
expression of the popular will; protect all Spaniards and peoples of Spain
in the exercise of human rights, their cultures and traditions, languages,
and institutions; promote the progress of culture and the economy to insure a
dignified quality of life for all; establish an advanced democratic
society; and collaborate in the strengthening of peaceful relations and
effective cooperation among all the peoples of the earth.
