Unit 1: Media Literacy
This is a piece of information that can be checked and corroborated by research.
What is a fact?
The Arab Spring began in this country.
What is Tunisia?
A place where people and machines came under one building to produce one particular product.
What is a factory?
This is the action of one country (often considered to be stronger) going into another and controlling it politically, economically, and militarily.
What is imperialism?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This is a personal preference or belief.
This is the leader of France heading into the French Revolution.
Who was King Louis XVI?
Name one reason why Britain became the home for the Industrial Revolution.
What is:
1. Natural resources
2. Human resources
3. Abundance of money
4. A vast empire to take resources from
This is the active settlement of people from one country to another.
What is colonization?
The inclination to think a certain way, often preferring one side of the story.
What is a bias?
This is a type of bias that confirms one's preexisting belief or opinion.
What is a confirmation bias?
This is the type of government where someone gains full control over a country, likely from overthrowing former governments.
What is a dictatorship?
True or false: Factories had to provide a minimum wage to employees during the Industrial Revolution.
What is false?
Name the two regions where European countries focused during the Age of Imperialism.
What is Asia and Africa?
A place where people could live and work during the Industrial Revolution, often if they could not afford living in an apartment or house.
What is a workhouse/poorhouse?
When reading about a news story, this is the skill you should start with. You should be opening a new tab and reading horizontally.
What is lateral reading?
This is the name of the oath that the Third Estate/National Assembly swore after being locked out of the Estate General.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
Name one reason why child labor was used in the Industrial Revolution.
Examples can include:
- Cheaper labor
- Small enough to fit in small places.
- Often desperate to work.
- Naive, easy to manipulate.
This is the time in history where European countries split up the continent of Africa.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
This is one of the justifications for imperialism during the 1800s. It used "science" to claim that some races are "better than others."
What is Social Darwinism?
Is this a fact or opinion?
You should drive the speed limit.
What is an opinion?
*Side note: Why is it an opinion?
Name one similarity and difference between the French Revolution and Arab Spring.
Examples include:
- Similarities: overthrowing governments, working class feeling stifled, leader controls too much, high taxes, using violence against the government.
- Differences: time frame, region, one leader is killed while the other lives, one is currently ongoing.
Name one invention that came from the Industrial Revolution.
- Steam engine
- Steam engine locomotive
- Electricity
- Cotton gin
- Sewing machine
Name one reason why Europe divided Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Examples:
1. Economic - get money
2. Religious - convert people to Christianity
3. Political - control more land and people
4. Social - Social Darwinism
This invention used coal to heat water, and the steam was harness to move gears within a machine.
What is a steam engine?