Choose one event from each topic below. To make your choices, think about which event you think is most important in each group.
Topic Event Choices—choose one from each row.
Latin American Independence Haitian Revolution
Spanish American Wars of Independence
Dominican Republic Independence
Cuban Independence
New Philosophies Industrialization in Britain
Writing of Adam Smith
Writing of Karl Marx
Writing of Thomas Malthus
Writing of John Stuart Mill
Writing and “New Harmony” of Robert Owens
Imperialism “Monroe Doctrine”
Sepoy Mutiny
Korean colonization
Boer War
Crimean War
Opium Wars
Boxer Rebellion
Italian and German Unification Founding of “Young Italy”
Il Risorgimento newspaper
Giuseppe Garibaldi appointed general
Seven Weeks’ War
Franco-Prussian War
Zollverein
Recent Movements Independence movement of one of the following—Algeria, Belize, Kenya, Libya
Meiji Restoration
Negritude Movement
Progressive Movement
Social reform of one of the following—Abolition, Education, Health, Unions, Temperance, Women’s Suffrage
Write a summary paragraph for each of the five chosen events. Each paragraph should answer the questions:
What happened?
Where?
When?
Why?
How is the event significant to history?
Does it connect to other events on the timeline? If so, explain how. At least three of your selected events must connect to others on the timeline.
Select a representative image for each event. Include the images in your timeline.
Be sure to cite your sources of information and give credit to the source of each image used.
