Women reformers did NOT achieve any goals in the 1st half of the 19th century. In fact, they did not achieve the right to vote until 1920 when the 19 th amendment to the constitution was passed.

Temperance Document A: The verse below is from the song The Drink We Choose. It is one of several ballads sung by the Cold Water Army, a children’s temperance group in Connecticut during the late 1840s. The drink, that’s in the drunkard’s bowl is not the drink for me; It kills his body and his soul; how sad a sight is he! But there’s a drink that God has given, distilling in the showers of heaven, In measures large and free; oh, that’s the drink for me. *Note* Abuse of alcohol is not a laughing matter. While today we have school-based programs, such as D.A.R.E., and organizations such as M.A.D.D., in the nineteenth century temperance was largely (if not exclusively) part of a religious movement.

Temperance Document B: The Effects of Drunkenness (1841) from a children’s book

Temperance Document C: The Victim of Ardent Spirits (c.1837 ‐ 1841)

Temperance Document D: The Scale of Temperance (1828)

Temperance Document E: The Drunkards Progress: From the First Drink to the Grave (c.1800s)

Questions: 1.What do Temperance Documents A‐E suggest is a social problem during the 1800s? Why do you think this “social ill” is such a common problem during this time period in U.S. History? 2.Temperance Documents A‐E: Draw a conclusion about what women, were trying to accomplish with these visuals. Why do you think they were trying to make these changes?

Temperance Document F: The Annual Consumption of Distilled Spirits 3. Temperance Document F: Were the efforts of women and Temperance workers effective? Explain. Question:

Health Reform Document A

Health Reform Document A cont’d

4.Health Reform Documents A‐B: Why do you think an 1850 survey revealed that only 1 in 4 women were healthy?

5. Health Reform Documents C: What changes were made in order to improve women’s health? Do you consider these to be major changes? Question: Health Reform Documents C: Women’s fashion and leisure in the 1800s Newer Fashions Older Fashion

6. Education Reform Document A: Identify three ways in which the education system was reformed and improved.

Stations will work like a DBQ activity this time. Please stay in your seats and rotate your station after time is called. Ain't I A Woman?

1)____________ means to end slavery. 2) _____ influenced American identity. It formed the basis for protest called civil disobedience. It taught that people could find the truth within themselves. It teaches people could learn from nature. 3) ____ was the first state to allow women to divorce their husbands if their husbands had an alcohol problem. 4)____ discovered persons with mental illnesses were being treated like criminals. 5)______was a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Choices: Transcendentalism, Indiana, Sojourner Truth, Dorothea Dix, Harriet Tubman, Montana, Grimke Sisters, Florida, Abolition, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison.