revolutions, rebellions, and revolts! connecting history and current events to animal farm
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Revolutions, Rebellions, and Revolts!
Connecting history and current events to Animal
Farm
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Lesson Launch
• Make a list of the qualities of a good leader
• What happens when people are dissatisfied with a leader?
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French Revolution (1789)• Leading up to it…– Peasants were burdened with high
taxes levied to support wealthy aristocrats and their sumptuous, often gluttonous, lifestyles
– Power rested in the monarchy and those who were “privileged by birth”
– French government was essentially bankrupt
–Crop failures, shortage of grain, rising price of bread
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The 1905 Russian Revolution
• People's faith in Nicholas II, the Russian Tsar, was waning. (Russia was defeated by the Japanese in number of navy battles)
• Cold-blooded shooting of hundreds of unarmed demonstrators in St Petersburg on 22 January 1905
• In Kurland, today Western Latvia, 184 estates were burned and 82 Baltic Germans were killed by angry farmers .
• The Tsar reacted harshly to these uprisings -- Nearly one thousand people in the Baltic were captured and executed and thousands were exiled to Siberian prison camps.
• Positive outcome to these uprisings? -- Not only did the people feel more empowered than ever before but one concession that the Tsar made was to grant people representation in the Russian government.
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Mexican Revolution (1910)• Tremendous disagreement among the Mexican people
over the dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz, who stayed in office for thirty one years.
• Power was concentrated in the hands of a select few. The people had no power to express their opinions or select their public officials. Wealth was concentrated in the hands of the few.
• New generation of young leaders arose who wanted to participate in the political life of their country -- Denied the opportunity by the officials who were already entrenched in power and who were not about to give it up.
• Although the Mexican Constitution called for public election and other institutions of democracy, Díaz and his supporters used their political and economic resources to stay in power indefinitely.
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Looking at historical events…
• Identify reasons why a government would be overthrown
• What inspires a revolution? What is the purpose of a rebellion/revolution?
• What do citizens, peasants, political groups hope to achieve with a revolution?
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Aristotle’s Words… “Revolutions arise from inequalities …
from a numerical mass claiming an equality denied them, or from a minority claiming a superiority denied them. A revolution may result either in a complete change of polity, or only in a modification of the existing one. The purposes with which [revolutions] are set on foot are profit, honor, or avoidance of loss or dishonor. The inciting occasions are many; jealousy of those who have wealth and honor, official arrogance, fear of the law or of its abuse, personal rivalries, failure of the middle class to maintain a balance, race antagonisms, antagonism of localities, and others….”