Review #1: How did Charles Finney, a Great Awakening leader and preacher, promote individualism; socially & economically?
Class Expectations
E.Q: How can culture capture and shape an American identity?
E.U: Art, literature, and music often reflect a nation’s interests, values, and conflicts.
Be Respectful
1. Follow teacher directions.
2. Listen and learn from others.
3. Use appropriate language.
Be Responsible
1. Have supplies and materials out.
(SEAT NUMBER = COMPUTER NUMBER)
2. Arrive on time.
3. Remain on task.
(POINTS DEDUCTED = OFF TASK BEHAVIOR)
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Be Safe
Stay seated unless given permission to stand.
2. Clean up your space.
3. Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself.
(ACTIONS = CONSEQUENCES)
U.S. History I (Mr. McCarrison) – (03 – 24 – 2015)
Bellringer: (5 MINUTES) – (2 PTS / EACH) -> Read the following questions and answer these questions in complete sentences.
1. What elements (political, social (cultural), and / or economical) of society today are in need of change immediately?
2. Do you believe that religious leaders should take a more active role in bringing about social changes? Why or why not?
3. How can you, a student, demonstrate nonconformity or self – reliance in your own life? (think of the positives and negatives)
4. Look at this famous painting below, what direct relationship between humans and nature does this painting portray in life?
American Literature “The Literature of the Transcendentalists” Picture Reflection: 5 MINS & 6 PTS TOTAL
• Answer the following three questions on your activity sheet of paper in complete sentences.
1. Comparing and Contrasting: What does each selection reveal about habits and attitudes in 1850s America? (PG 246 – 247)
1. What reform did Margaret Fuller advocate?; What type of lifestyle did Henry David Thoreau urge people to reject?
2. How did Ralph Waldo Emerson measure success in one’s life?
2. “The masses of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”; how does this express the attitude of authors during this time period?
3. How are Dorothea Dix and Margaret Fuller’s personal feelings connected with the ideas of self accomplishment below?
2nd Great Awakening Primary Source Research Reflection (10 MINS & 6 PTS TOTAL)
1. Go to the following website: http://tinyurl.com/l8f7mxd entitled “History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.”
2. By 2000, the African Methodist Episcopal Church claimed some 2.5 million members, making it the twelfth largest religious
body in the United States; how did the foundation of this church allow for the advancement of African American philosophy?
3. After completing the question above, create the chart below on your paper and complete it with your daily quiz questions.
19th – Century Movements and Groups
Social Movements and Groups Title
Foundation of the A.M.E. Church
Advancement of Transcendentalism
Creation of Utopian / Shaker Com.
School and Temperance Reforms
Social Movements and Groups Leader(s)
Social Movements Major Impacts
Film Reflection (5 MINS): Provide two examples how the 2nd Great Awakening was a direct response to American culture.
Title: Expansion of the 2nd Great Awakening
SECTION NOTES (CREATE AN OUTLINE IN YOUR NOTES USING BOLD ITEMS)
(YOU WILL LOSE FIVE POINTS FOR DISRUPTIONS!) – (5 MINUTES)
Transcendentalists (New England in the 1850s) – “Simple Life & Return to Nature”
• Influenced by the romantic movement, it was a liberation from understanding and the cultivation of reasoning.
Transcendentalists Beliefs
1. Withdrawal from society (utopian), rejection of authority, and personal individualism.
2. Every person posses an inner light that can put him in direct touch with God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Writer)
• Wrote Nature (1832) and Self - Reliance (1841).
• Stressed self reliance, self - confidence, self improvement, optimism, and freedom.
Henry David Thoreau (Writer)
• Wrote Resistance to Civil Disobedience (Passive Resistance) (1849) and Walden (1854).
• Wrote this book when he was in jail for refusing to pay his taxes over the Mexican War.
Transcendentalist Critic (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
• Their pursuit of the ideal led to distorted views of human nature and endless possibilities of escape from normal society.
• One should accept the world as an imperfect place and learn to deal with it in reality.
Noah Webster: Best known for publishing the 1st American dictionary which standardize American English.
SECTION NOTES (CREATE AN OUTLINE IN YOUR NOTES USING BOLD ITEMS)
(YOU WILL LOSE FIVE POINTS FOR DISRUPTIONS!) – (5 MINUTES)
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American Education (Leader: Horace Mann)
Massachusetts went the front of public education was the 1st to establish tax support.
By 1860, every state offered free education to whites as U.S. had high literacy rates.
Horace Mann’s Personal Beliefs
Children were clay in teacher’s hands and administration to be molded into perfection.
Discouraged corporal punishment; established state teacher trainings at normal schools).
McGuffey Eclectic Readers
Used religious parables to teach American values, patriotism, morality, and respect.
Overall, they taught Protestant ethic - frugality, hard work, and individual sobriety
Dorothea Dix: Worked to improve treatment of the mentally ill and prison reform in the United States.
Traveled 30,000 miles over eight years reporting first on treatment of insanity in Americans.
Her efforts resulted improved conditions and states created new hospitals and asylums.
SECTION NOTES (CREATE AN OUTLINE IN YOUR NOTES USING BOLD ITEMS)
(YOU WILL LOSE FIVE POINTS FOR DISRUPTIONS!) – (5 MINUTES)
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Temperance Movement (“Moderate Use of Alcohol”) – “American Temperance Society”
National crusade aimed to combat the heavy consumption of alcohol; cause of poverty.
Men and women were motivated by anti - immigrant bias as religious leaders supported the movement.
Alcohol decreased work productivity, increased work place injuries; caused domestic violence against women and children.
By 1851, Maine tries to pass a law prohibiting the sale of alcohol, but faded due to the abolition (slavery) movement.
Daily Quiz Questions – (USE YOUR NOTES!) – (5 MINUTES & 2 PTS EACH)
Answer the following questions in complete sentences on your activity paper.
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In your own words, how did the transcendentalism movement help shape our American identity in the mid – 1800s?
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How did Horace Mann support a public school system that promoted our nation’s interests, values, and conflicts?
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How did Dorothea Dix shape American culture in the form of living conditions at state hospitals and state asylums?
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In your own words, how did the temperance movement and the American Temperance Society lose the nation’s interest?
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2nd Great Awakening Primary Source Research Assignment (10 MINS & 20 PTS TOTAL)
1. Using your notes and your daily quiz questions, complete your chart from the first primary source research assignment.
2. Which of these individuals had the greatest impact on the 2nd Great Awakening, transcendentalism, and civil disobedience?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson . . . or . . . Henry David Thoreau . . . or . . . Dorothea Dix. - - - - > (3 MAJOR EXAMPLES)
3. Bonus: Create your own five event timeline based on events that your individual was involved in between 1810 – 1850.
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Homework Assignment (5 MINS & 3 PTS TOTAL)
Read the one question below and answer on your activity sheet of paper.
What reform did Horace Mann accomplish?
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He started the Second Great Awakening in American society.
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He convinced nine Southern states to create public hospitals for the mentally ill.
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He helped to improve prisons by training prisoners for civil service jobs.
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He worked to strengthen the American public education system.
How do the following paintings illustrate the visions of an utopian (perfect) society among citizens?
Primary Source Research Assignments
1. Write a dialogue if Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau were friends today and discussed current social issues.
2. Create a one – page dialogue with one political cartoon illustrating this unique dialogue between these two men.
Domestic Antebellum Challenges Primary Source Computer Assignment (10 MINS & 20 PTS TOTAL)
1. You are going to research the origins of European immigrants living in the American South since the 1820s.
2. Use the following website to start beginning your research: http://tinyurl.com/m5vt8tq
3. With the use of this information, you are going to work on the following three - part assignment concerning the challenges.
4. Write a one – paragraph (five sentences total) highlighting the challenges that immigrants faced in the American South.
5. Second, how were these workers involved in different “cottage industries”, “strikes”, and “unions” in the 1820s?
6. Finally, create a series of two pie graphs showing the major countries of origins for immigrants from 1820 – 1860 – 1900.
Primary Source Research Assignment (10 MINS & 20 PTS TOTAL)
1. Choose a technological development of the early 1800s and write an application to patent it.
2. Possible inventions might include the cotton gin, the steam engine, or the spinning mule.
3. Guidelines: include a picture of what you are applying to patent and refer to it in your application (draw a picture, download,
or copy), describe how the invention works, accomplishes, what kind of labor it requires, and its effects on how people lived.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. To evaluate the Indian removal policy from different perspectives, you and your partner are going to write a letter focusing
on a famous public issue that affected individuals during this time period. The Indian Removal Act affected peaceful Native
American groups who considered themselves sovereign nations with lands held by treaty with the United States.
2. You are your partner are going to assume the viewpoints of members of the Southeastern tribes and write a one – page letter
to President Andrew Jackson expressing your views on this act. The purpose of this letter is to influence the president,
therefore, your letter should cite specific examples of how the act have affected your life and the lives of other natives.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. To recognize the impact of the Native American art and craft movement on American culture and society, you and your partner
are going to create a digital online or offline presentation to illustrate four major areas of Native American culture; literature,
music, art, & crafts. You and your partner’s presentation must illustrate examples of artists’ works and include either recordings
of music, posters, book reviews, dramatic readings, and role playing.