Thursday March 9th 2017 Pick up your spirals folders from the front, take out a pen/pencil and your bellwork. Pick up a Reform Movements Guided note template. We are watching a child labor video and taking notes. Bellwork: If you could make one positive change in the world, what would it be? (This does not involve killing bad people/people you don’t like).
Reform Movements Era
Causes of Reform Era Rise of democracy: More groups, like women and blacks, organized to raise public awareness and influence policy. Second Great Awakening: Religious revival that spread westward during early 1800s Message: traveling preachers spread a message of repentance from evil ways of living (laziness, drunkenness, slavery, etc.) Impact: Methodist and Baptists church membership soared New groups like the Mormons began Many Americans became involved in reform movements; empowered the masses.
Causes of Reform Era Quakers: Continued to emphasize equality and fought for rights of underrepresented. (as they always had) Contributions: abolition, temperance, women’s rights. Changing Role of Women: Industrial Revolution brought women together through factory jobs Middle and upper class women organized social functions to support reform movements Looking for social and political opportunities outside the home
Education Reform Horace Mann
Education Reform
Labor Reform
Labor Reform
Prison Reform
Prison Reform
Care for the Disabled
Temperance
Women’s Rights Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony
Abolition