Today we completed Chap. 16 and we covered a vast array of history, picking up where we left off in our previous class. We reviewed the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution, Spanish American revolutions throughout Central and South America and the gradual abolition of slavery in England, and the Americas. We looked at the Russian Decembrist Revolt against Czar Nicholas I. We reviewed the era of Radical Reconstruction after the the Civil War. At the end of the 19th century, we see the rise of a new movement: Nationalism. We briefly discussed positive and negative aspects of nationalism. We concluded with looking at the Feminist movement that gains momentum in the 19th century. HW has been assigned for spring break: start reading Chapter 17, pp. 737-753.