Tasks:
- Begin by contextualizing the social reforms of the 19th century.
- Review political and economic changes that will inspire people to transform their lives.
- Set inquiry: How successful were the reform movements in bringing change to the lives of Americans?
- Identify characteristics of "success"
- Describe "waves" of reform
- First Wave = Benevolent Reformers (1820s) interested in institutional reform, like prison, education, asylum reform
- Second Wave = Radicalized Reformers (1830s) supported ideas like immediate emancipation and gender equality.
- Provide information on one of the benevolent reformers most successful movements: temperance.
- Identify significant characteristics of 2nd Great Awakening
- Use images to describe the goals and strategies of the temperance
- Why were the temperance reformers so successful?
- Provide information on one of the radicalized reformers: abolition movement.
- Identify characteristics of American slave system that makes it "peculiar"
- Describe goals and strategies of abolition movement
Reminders:
- Period IV Test Monday (11/2): essay & Tuesday (11/3): multiple choice
- Test corrections due 11/13
