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Section 1 Notetaking Study Guide
Questions to Think About As you read Section 1 in your textbook and take notes,
keep this section focus question in mind: How did key people bring about reform in
education and society?
Complete this chart to record key information from the section.
Improving Society
The Reforming Spirit of Jacksonian Democracy
Some people worked to make the political system fairer. They supported causes such as
legal rights for ______________________ and the end of _________________________.
How the Second Great Awakening encouraged reform:
• Doctrine of free will: _____________________________________________________
• Charles Finney: _________________________________________________________
• If people had the power to improve themselves, they could
________________________________________________.
Utopian Communities
• Definition: communities that tried to create perfect societies
• Robert Owen: __________________________________________________________
• Results: ______________________________________________________________
Social Reformers at Work
Movement to Reform Prisons
• Dorothea Dix worked to support the building of _______________________________
_________________________________________________________.
• Dix urged the government to create ________________ for _____________________.
Education Reform
• Public schools were supported as a way to create more informed
_________________________ and help new ________________________.
• Horace Mann: reformer from Massachusetts who
____________________________________________________
• Reformers of African American education _____________________________.
• First state to admit African Americans to public schools: ______________________
• Ashmun Institute: ___________________________________________________
Refer to this page to answer the Chapter 8 focus question on page 139.
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Temperance Movement
• Definition: an organized effort to ___________________________________________
• Many women supported this movement because ________________________
_______________________________.
• Some reformers supported Prohibition, which is ________________________
_______________________________.