Social Reform in the Antebellum Era Does Change Really Matter?
Catalyst of Change Second Great Awakening –S–Spiritual rebirth –S–Spirit of change –I–Individuals amend their lives in reform movements –M–More active faithfulness
Abolitionism American Colonization Society New England Anti Slavery Society –William Lloyd Garrison Angelina and Sarah Grimke Sojourner Truth Frederick Douglass Harriet Beecher Stowe John Brown
Temperance Ten Nights in a Barroom - Timothy Shay Arthur American Society for the Promotion of Temperance “The Drunkards Progress” Maine Law (1851) Anti-Immigrant ideas Consumption of liquor declines
The Cult of Domesticity and Women’s Rights First phase Second Phase Grimke Sisters Catherine Beecher (Hartford Female Seminary) Lucretia Mott Susan B Anthony Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Utopian Communities Brook Farm Transcendentalists Oneida Community Millerites Shakers Burned Over District
Education William H. McGuffey Noah Webster Emma Willard Horace Mann Public Education
Penal Institutions Dorthea Dix Kirkbride Plan (Thomas Kirkbride) Auburn System
Museum: Antebellum Reforms You will be assigned a reform movement, and create a display for our museum You can have a still or living display-everyone must participate You also must have a curator for your display Your exhibit will be presented to the class, and your job is to teach the class.
Museum: Antebellum Reforms If you choose a living display: –Your curator will introduce the display(an explanation of what we will be looking at), the historical figures present, and any background information, goals of the reform, and successes –Once your display comes to life you must depict an event real or fictional that would be historically accurate and informative –You may use any materials I have to create props, or nametags
Museum: Antebellum Reforms If you are doing a still display: All actors will get into a pose that not only implies action but you must stay in that pose for the entire presentation Your curator will introduce the display(an explanation of what we will be looking at), the historical figures present, and any background information, goals of the reform, and successes After classmates will be able to ask questions regarding your display and the reform movement you are portraying