Revolution

Reaction

Reform

in History

Revolution: a sudden or

momentous Change in a situation

“rev” up learn, experience, realize, Aha!

Rev-erberate collision of ideas or beliefs

Re-volt refuse to sit in the back

Re-verse abolish

Re-volve create a new

Re-volutionize effect a radical change

Reaction/Response to a book, spread of an idea,

new theory

Quick, “knee-jerk” /agree or disagree

Slow realization/accumulate opinions

Reply, answer/apologize, refuse, support, deny

Civil Disobedience

Disagree with a law

Speak-up

People stand together

Non-violent Reaction

United through humor

Stowe reacts: The death from cholera of her young son Charley caused Harriet Beecher Stowe to empathize with

slave mothers whose children were so often torn from them, and so it planted the

seed for a book.

Best selling book of the 19th Century

Second only to the Bible

Changed public opinion

Convinced people to abolish slavery

Lead to the outbreak of the Civil War

Created characters still talked about today

In one heroic scene, Eliza makes a daring dash across the frozen Ohio River to prevent the sale of her son by slave

traders.

Reform/Alter

Improve/Correct an error

Repair/Fix problem or injustice

Remove/Delete or overcome obstacles

Reconfigure /Incorporate fairness

Renew/Learn a new method

American Revolution

Event

Person

Tea or taxes?

Singing Revolution

Industrial Revolution

Agricultural Revolution

Protestant Revolution

The Glorious Revolution of 1688

Scientific Revolution

Cultural Revolution

Questions

When is a revolution over?

How did society change ?

Was society better ?

Was there progress ?

Did anyone suffer ?

Were the results more positive or negative ?

French Revolution

Ideas

Human beings are basically good by nature, but were corrupted by the complex historical events that resulted in present day civil society. Rousseau

Prejudices are what fools use for reason. Voltaire

A long dispute means both parties are wrong. Voltaire

Event

Reaction

Beatles Revolution

Reaction

Response

Zillions of topics

Event

Person

Idea

Issue

Product

Law

What interests you?