Nationalism Congress Vienna Italian & German Unification Stations & Case Study

Essential Question: Was nationalism a positive force in shaping world events?

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Change your World history class. Throw out the textbook to instead teach with different engaging sources. This complete Nationalism Unit takes boring readings and turns them into stations activities and case studies, making them more memorable. In this lesson students will study the history of nationalism from the Congress Vienna all the way to current issues of nationalism, such as in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. This lesson includes many rich primary source documents to really help students understand the nuances of nationalism. In the end the will write an essay answering the question:Was nationalism a positive force in shaping world events?

SWBAT:

• Define the term nationalism

• Discuss how nationalism has had positive and/or negative effects on specific nations and/or regions

• Evaluate whether nationalism in general has had a more positive or a more negative impact on the people of the world

Includes:

- Readings

- Activities

- Guided reading questions

- Graphic organizers

- Reflections

- DBQ assessment

- Essay directions, rubric, and writing help

Introduction to Nationalism Stations Activity

Station 1: What are the characteristics of nationalism?

Sources: World History for Us All A project of San Diego State University In collaboration with the National Center for History in the Schools (UCLA) & What is Nationalism by By Robert Longley ThoughtCo

Station 2: Why did nationalist movements become popular?

Source: World History for Us All A project of San Diego State University In collaboration with the National Center for History in the Schools (UCLA)

Station 3: Revolutions of 1848

Sources: Study.com & Encyclopedia Kids

Station 4: Patriotism Vs. Nationalism

Sources: Learn the difference between Patriotism and Nationalism by WikiHow & Issues and Concerns of Nationalism by Robert Longley ThoughtCo updated Aug. 26th 2021

Case Studies: Italian & German Unification Primary Source Activity Italian Primary Source Analysis Activity: Analyze quotes from Count Camillo Di Cavour “The Brain,” Giuseppe Garibaldi “The Sword” and Giuseppe Mazzini “The Heart” & Vittorio Emanuele I, King of Italy, 1861

German Primary Source Analysis Activity: Speech to the Frankfurt Assembly 1848, King of Prussia Proclamation of 1849, Otto von Bismarck: Letter to Minister von Manteuffel 1856, Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke 1866, Proclamation of 1871 The Imperial Proclamation (Wilhelm I, King) 

Standard: Discuss how nationalism spread across Europe with Napoleon but was repressed for a generation under the Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe until the Revolutions of 1848.

Objectives: 1. Assess the role of nationalism in the creation of new empires and the rise of the nation-state.  2. Evaluate how nationalism affected different societies and ethnic groups around the world.  3. Use historical thinking practices and reasoning skills such as claim testing, causation,  and sourcing to evaluate historical events and processes.  4. Create and support arguments using historical evidence to communicate conclusions through individual or shared writing.

Vocabulary:

nationalism

patriotism

Congress of Vienna

Napoleonic Wars

Revolutions of 1848

Italian Unification

German Unification

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