Reform MovementIf you have yet to present please have all of your materials ready.

12/19/13 Day 4

Agenda:• Finish

Presentations• Introduction

Notes• Reading on the reform movement

and questions

Objectives:• Explain how the Second

Great Awakening and its ideas lead to a time of

reform for many different groups

Second Great Awakening

brought a religious revival and an era of social reform.

–Americans became concerned about the state of society–People uses churches as a base for reform–Belief that person’s salvation depended on his or her own efforts

• Rejected the ideas of Calvinism – predestination

• Promoted ideas of individualism and responsibility

• “democratic god”

• Revivalism – large gathering, an emotional meeting designed to awaken religious faith through preaching and prayer.

Transcendentalism: • a philosophical and

literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrating the truth found in nature–Ralph Waldo Emerson–Henry David Thoreau• Civil Disobedience-

Peacefully refusing to obey laws in order to protest an issue

Henry David Thoreau

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reforming Asylums/Prisons : – People treated like

animals and often abused

–Dorothea Dix worked to fix prisons• Emphasized the idea

of rehabilitation – treatment that might reform the sick person to a useful position in society

Reforming Education:

–Education became required by law–P.A. had first tax-

supported public education system–Horace Mann

reformed education in M.A.

Do Now: Slavery and Abolition

What is the Second Great Awakening? LOOK BACK AT YOUR NOTES!

1/6/14 Day 4

Agenda:• Do Now and

Discussion• Slave life Reading• Notes on the

Abolitionist Movement

Objectives:• Analyze the

characteristics of the reform movements in the antebellum period – the

abolition movement

Do Now: Slavery and Abolition

What is the Second Great Awakening? LOOK BACK AT YOUR NOTES!

1/6/14 Day 4

Agenda:• Refresher on

Slave Life• Notes on the

Abolitionist Movement

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Objectives:• Analyze the

characteristics of the reform movements in the antebellum period – the

abolition movement

Back to Africa–The American

Colonization Society–U.S. organization

founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to return freed American slaves to Africa.

By the 1820s there were 0ver a 100 antislavery

societies

Abolition movement – the call to outlaw slavery

Emancipation – the freeing of slaves, with no payment to slaveholders

William Lloyd Garrison

• The Liberator: editor• Immediate

emancipation• Founded the New

England Anti-Slavery Society • Attacked Churches and

Government for not condemning slavery

David Walker• Free Black Abolitionist • Wrote: Appeal to the Colored

Citizens of the World• Called for Blacks to fight for

freedom“The man who would not fight…ought to be kept with all of his children or family, in slavery, or in chains, to be

butchered by his cruel enemies.”

Frederick Douglas

• Born into slavery• Learned to read

& write• Escaped from the

South • Began speaking

to the public in hopes that abolition could be achieved through political action.

Anti-slavery Newspaper: The North

Star

Nat Turners Rebellion • Nat Turner: Slave in VA• Led a revolt of 80 followers• attacked 4 plantations • Killed 60 whites• Turner was captured, tried & hanged• EFFECT: Strengthen Whites views

on Slavery

Effects of Rebellion• Virginia Debate–Should we abolish slavery??–motion for abolition in the state legislature–Motion Lost

• Slave Codes: laws that tighten control over African Americans. –Bible study, own guns, assemble in

public, testify in court.

Abolitionist Fight Back!!!• Swamp Congress with petitions to end

slavery

• Gag Rule: Limiting or preventing debate on an issue

Do Now: Frederick Douglas

List things that have helped convince you to try something, buy something, or believe something.

1/7/14 Day 1

Agenda:• Check

HW/Discuss• Frederick Douglas first-

hand account. • Class Discussion

Objectives:• Analyze the

characteristics of the reform movements in the antebellum period – the

abolition movement

While we read…• Listen and concentrate not only on Douglass's

voice, but also on what aspects of slave life he is trying to convey.

• Create a chart such as the one below…

What shocked you? What pained you?

What did you find interesting?

Do Now: Women’s ReformWould you consider yourself to be a feminist?

What, if any differences do you think women face in today’s society?

1/9/14 Day 3

Objectives:• Analyze the

characteristics of the reform movements in the antebellum period – the

women’s movement

Agenda:• Do

Now/Discussion• Quick Notes • Reading/Chart

Women’s Reform• Cult of domesticity: the belief that

married women should restrict their activities to their home and family.–Uncommon to have a job outside of the

home– Could not vote– Be a jury member – Once married property & money became

husbands– Lack guardianship rights over children

Abolitionism • Sarah and

Angelina Grimke:

• Daughters of a Southern Slave Owner

• Became educators/writers – advocating abolitionism and women's rights.

Temperance Movement • The organized

effort to prohibit the consumption of Alcohol. –Rallies–Pamphlets–Refused to buy

Other Reforms• Education Early 1800s – Very few options available – institutions for higher learning for women begin to open.

• Health Early 1800s – 3 sick women for every healthy

women– Rarely bathed or exercised– Fashion: corsets– Amelia Bloomer: wore lose fitting

clothing

AssignmentRead Chapter 2 “Women’s

Rights” • Create a chart – Significance Who, what, when and

why??– Objective– Leaders – Legacy

YOU WILL NEED THIS FOR YOUR ASSIGNMENT NEXT CLASS

Women’s ReformHave your notes on the Seneca Falls

Convention out on your desk.

1/10/14 Day 4

Objectives:• Analyze the

characteristics of the reform movements in the antebellum period – the

women’s movement

Agenda:• Check HW

• Instructions for writing

assignment • Key Terms

Seneca Falls Convention

• 1848 - Seneca Falls, NY• First Women’s Rights Convention• Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton• Declaration of Sentiments: Document

asserting that men and women are equal• Focus on women’s right to vote– narrow approval

• Begin of the first Women’s Rights Movement- lasts until 1920 when women receive the right to vote with the 19th Amendment

Today’s AssignmentImagine you are a reporter for the Seneca Falls (New York)

Journal at the time the women’s convention assembled. On lined paper write a short article that would go along with the headline. Be sure to include answers to the five “W”

questions: Who? What? When? Where? And why?______________________________________________________________________________________

*JULY 12, 1848*

WOMEN’S CONVENTION OPENS TODAY

LARGE GATHERING EXPECTEDWhen finished please hand in your entry. - Next, identify the KEY TERMS on page 364 in your textbook using Chapter 12.

Do Now: Worker’s Reform

When you think of factories what comes to mind? Conditions? Jobs?

*Have out your HW*

1/13/14 Day 1

Objectives:• Analyze the

characteristics of the reform movements in

the antebellum period – the worker’s

movement

Agenda:• Collection of HW• Intro Notes

• Primary Source Reading “Lowell

Mill”• Writing Response

• Discussion

Changing the Workplace• A growing industrial force faces problems: – changes in manufacturing – creation of the industrial system

• Most immigrants worked in factories– North

• Dangerous and repetitive• Conditions– fires and accidents were common– pay was low – Long hours

Lowell Mill Girls • Workers were young,

unmarried women– “mill girls”- lived in

dormitories in the mill towns

• Poor working conditions often led to strikes - or a refusal to work until demands are meet

• Strikes in 1834 and 1836 in Lowell, MA

Do Now: Worker’s Reform

What is a LABOR UNION?

1/15/14 Day 3

Objectives:• Analyze the

characteristics of the reform movements in

the antebellum period – the worker’s movement

Agenda:• Do Now/Discussion

• Quick Notes• A Brief History of

Unions in the US and questions

Seeking Better Conditions

• Strikes– Early strikes won by employers

• Irish and German immigrates –North (more opportunity)– Suffer abuse (Roman Catholic/Poor)–Willing to work for low wages

National Trades’ Union• First trades unions

were specific to a trade– Shoemakers– Textile mills

• In 1824, The National Trades’ Union – Multiple industries unite

LABOR UNIONS• Legally recognized as

representatives of workers

• Bargaining– wages, benefits, and

working conditions – Representing members

in disputes with management over violations of contract provisions.

AssignmentRead “A Brief History of Labor Unions in

the U.S”Complete the following questions– As you read create a timeline– How have unions changed our lives today?– Economically, what changes have come about to

help employees? Do you think these changes hurt the employer?

– From what you know and what you have read, what is your opinion of labor unions?

WHEN COMPLETE HAND-IN AN START WORKING ON YOUR STUDY GUIDE

Reform MovementHave out your completed

study guides.

1/16/14 Day 4

Objectives:• Study the

characteristics of the reform movements in the antebellum period

Agenda:• Homework Check• Review answers to

reform study guide• Review Game?

Test on Reform Movement – Friday 1/17

Reform MovementHave out your completed

study guides and take a few minutes to review.

1/17/14 Day 1

Objectives:• Assessment of the characteristics of the reform movements in the antebellum period

Agenda:• Review• Test• Maps

• WEEKEND!