1.
What reform did Horace Mann accomplish during the 2nd Great Awakening?
A.
He started the Second Great Awakening in states found in New England.
B.
He convinced nine Southern states to create public hospitals for the mentally ill.
C.
He helped to improve prisons by training prisoners for civil service jobs.
D.
He worked to strengthen the American public education system in the north.
Class Expectations
E.Q: How does reform encourage the ideals of the American Dream?
E.U: The development of personal reform encourages changes in cultural development.
Be Respectful
1. Follow teacher directions.
2. Listen and learn from others.
3. Use appropriate language.
1. Have supplies and materials out.
(SEAT NUMBER = COMPUTER NUMBER)
2. Arrive on time.
3. Remain on task.
(POINTS DEDUCTED = OFF TASK BEHAVIOR)
1. Stay seated unless given permission to stand.
2. Clean up your space.
3. Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself.
(ACTIONS = CONSEQUENCES)
Be Responsible
Be Safe
U.S. History I (Mr. McCarrison) – (03 – 25 – 2015)
Bellringer: (5 MINUTES) – (3 PTS / EACH) -> Read the following questions and answer these questions in complete sentences.
1. Think about a time when you stood up for your beliefs. Was your position unpopular? How were you treated by others? Did
you persuade anyone to agree with you? (How do you think those who supported slavery reacted to abolitionists?)
– Was your position ever challenged by another individual? Why or why not?
2. Do consider yourself a feminist or an individual who believes women should play a more traditional role in society? (Y or N)
3. What, if any, difficulties do you think women face in the workplace or in other areas of society today?
“The Push From Women” during the Abolition Movement Picture Reflection: 5 MINS & 6 PTS TOTAL
• Answer the following three questions on your activity sheet of paper in complete sentences.
1. Go to the following website: http://tinyurl.com/xh4x entitled “1852 Fourth of July Speech by Frederick Douglass.”
• After analyzing this famous speech, what were Douglass’s reasons why he could not celebrate the Fourth of July?
2. Read the two quotes below, are these two personal feelings towards the pro-slavery or abolitionists point of view? Why?
3. Read “Slavery in the Americas” on page 253; why was Jamaica population over 80% slaves by the mid – 1800s?
“Women vs. A Male – Driven (Dominated) Society” Primary Source Research Reflection
1. Go to the following website: http://tinyurl.com/mkasmhv entitled “Declaration of Sentiments.”
2. The Seneca Falls “Declaration of Sentiments” asserted that “woman is man’s equal.” In what ways would that change the
status women held at the time? Cite facts from the website to support your answer.
•
(Think about women’s social, economical, and legal status in the mid – 1800s, married women’s domestic roles, and
single women’s career opportunities and wage issues in industry and business.)
3. After completing your question, create the chart below and using note information, complete it with your daily quiz questions.
Temperance
(3 Details)
Education
(3 Details)
Health Reforms
(3 Details)
Women’s Rights
(3 Details)
1. ______________________
1. ______________________
1. ______________________
1. ______________________
2. ______________________
2. ______________________
2. ______________________
2. ______________________
3. ______________________
3. ______________________
3. ______________________
3. ______________________
Film Reflection (5 MINS): How was women able to contribute to “reforming America” in these two early social movements?
Title: Women’s Rights Movement (Seneca Falls Convention) & Temperance (Alcohol) Movement
SECTION NOTES (CREATE AN OUTLINE IN YOUR NOTES USING BOLD ITEMS)
(YOU WILL LOSE FIVE POINTS FOR DISRUPTIONS!) – (5 MINUTES)
Abolition Movement (“To Abolish Slavery”)
Back to Africa Movement (American Colonization Society)
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Create a free slave state in West Africa (Liberia); proposed because it was believed that whites and blacks could not co-exist.
•
Most free blacks considered themselves American thus only a few emigrated to Africa.
William Lloyd Garrison (Abolitionist – “The Liberator”)
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Believed slavery undermined republican virtues; slavery was immoral, not an economical issue.
•
Believed in immediate emancipation of slaves with no compensation for plantation owners.
David Walker (“Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World”)
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Fight for freedom rather than wait for whites to set slaves free within America.
Frederick Douglass (Freed Slave – “The North Star”): Wrote the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.”
•
An escaped slave who purchased his freedom by selling his autobiography around the nation
Information Availability -> Explosive growth in the availability of reading material i.e. newspapers (most widely distributed).
SECTION NOTES (CREATE AN OUTLINE IN YOUR NOTES USING BOLD ITEMS)
(YOU WILL LOSE FIVE POINTS FOR DISRUPTIONS!) – (5 MINUTES)
Harriet Tubman (“Black Moses”) – Most Famous Conductor
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A former slave who helped with the Underground Railroad between the south and north.
•
Hid slaves with a secret network of people who supported the abolitionist movement.
The Grimke Sisters: Sarah and Angelina Grimke were very active in the women rights and abolition movement.
•
They tried to convince women that slavery should be abolished, because it was immoral.
•
Overall, Angelina specifically appealed to women as a Christian mother who supported life.
Sojourner Truth (“Preacher”): A former slave who was part of the abolition and women rights movement.
Lucy Stone (Wrote the Woman’s Journal on Abolitionism)
•
She retained using her maiden name even after she married her husband.
•
Women who followed and supported her were called Lucy Stoners.
General Women in Society: Most women were still part of the cult of domesticity; husband, children, home, & church.
•
Women have or want no place or rights in public dealings was the thought from men.
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 (Beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement)
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Organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; “Declaration of Sentiments.”
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and WOMEN are created equal.”
SECTION NOTES (CREATE AN OUTLINE IN YOUR NOTES USING BOLD ITEMS)
(YOU WILL LOSE FIVE POINTS FOR DISRUPTIONS!) – (5 MINUTES)
Women Writers (Domestic Fiction)
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Sarah Josepha Hale (Godey’s Lady’s Book): First mass - circulation magazine for women in American society.
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Susan Warner (The Wide - Wide World): Broke sales records in 1851 for all literary works.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin): By 1852, she broke sales records of Warners.
– Best selling book of all time up to that point in history (except for the Bible).
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Knickerbocker School of Writers: Group of writers who helped to promote nationalism and a new American culture.
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James Fenimore Cooper wrote of pioneer life in his novels; “The Last of the Mohicans.”
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Herman Melville wrote “Moby Dick”, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote “The Scarlet Letter,” & Edgar Allan Poe (“The Raven”).
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Washing Irving wrote short stories “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.”
Hudson River School (“The Painters School”): Landscape painters such as Cole and Church promoted America’s natural beauty.
Daily Quiz Questions – (USE YOUR NOTES!) – (5 MINUTES & 2 PTS EACH)
Answer the following four questions in complete sentences on your activity sheet of paper.
1.
How did the Back of Africa movement impact and help reform the abolition movement in the mid – 1800s?
2.
How did David Walker’s reform measures appeal to the colored citizen’s ideal of the American Dream?
3.
In your own words, describe how the explosive growth of reading material in the 1850s demonstrate cultural development?
4.
In your own words, describe how general women were treated by men and their push for reforming the American Dream?
“Antebellum Antislavery Actions” Primary Source Research Assignment (10 MINS & 20 PTS TOTAL)
1. Go to: http://tinyurl.com/pr883vg or your textbooks (PG 248 – 253), research the “Liberator” written by W. L. Garrison.
2. Write a one – paragraph article that might have appeared in this famous anti-slavery social newspaper if written today.
3. Your article must include the following major areas: address an injustice going on the world today (two sentences), a call for
action to be taken (2 sentences), and your article must maintain the tone and style of Garrison’s view of slavery (2 sentences).
4. After completing your article, create the following chart and describe the differences in their antislavery actions in the U.S.
William Lloyd Garrison
Antislavery Actions
Fredrick Douglass
Antislavery Actions
1. _________________________________________________
1. _________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________
Homework Assignment (5 MINS & 3 PTS TOTAL) - Read the question below and answer on your activity sheet of paper.
1.
What did the Seneca Falls Convention accomplish for the women’s rights movement?
A.
It created a series of education and health reforms for U.S. women.
B.
It promoted equal property rights with men.
C.
It produced a series of resolutions stating women’s grievances against injustices from the female population.
D.
It led to the immediate right to vote in American society.
2.
According to the pie graph, what was the smallest group of African Americans living in the American South in 1860?
3.
How do the following paintings illustrate the visions of an utopian (perfect) society among citizens?
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 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.
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.