1. Major Historical Figures – Sec 1
Unit 4 – Social Reform, Civil War, and Reconstruction U4-U5 MYP Title: Tearing Down to Build Up Unit Question: How does environment shape belief? Concept Statement: Environment shapes culture and beliefs Key Concept: Time, Place, and Space Section 1: Reform Movements
Major Historical Figures – Sec 1
Horace Mann– Secretary of Education if Mass., he fought for education reforms that led to Free Compulsory Education
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton, Susan B. Anthony – Started and led the movement for women’s rights and suffrage
John Brown – Led a slave revolt in Virginia
Fredrick Douglas – Strong spokesmen for Abolition and Suffrage
Harriet Tubman– Leader on the Underground Rail Road
Harriet Beecher Stowe – Wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

2. Maps For Unit 3- World Map
Unit 4 – Social Reform, Civil War, and Reconstruction U4-U5 Section 1: Reform Movements
Maps For Unit 3- World Map

3. Maps For Unit 3- East Coast of America
Unit 4 – Social Reform, Civil War, and Reconstruction U4-U5 Section 1: Reform Movements
Maps For Unit 3- East Coast of America

4. Suffrage Education Abolition Temperance
Unit 4 – Social Reform, Civil War, and Reconstruction U4-U5 Section 1: Reform Movements
Section Question (Argumentative): Which reform movement would have supported in the 1800s? You will need two facts about the movement you support and two reasons why they matter. (NEW) You will be a counterargument and rebuttal.
Suffrage
Education
Abolition
Temperance

5. Unit 4 – Social Reform, Civil War, and Reconstruction U4-U5 Section 1: Reform Movements
How did the Reform
Movements begin in
the US?
By 1825 educated Americans many from the new Middle Class began to ask why the US was not living up to its ideals about Natural Rights and freedoms – These people began to fight for change
Another driving force for reform was the Second Great Awakening - A religious revival throughout the US that had people wanting to reform their lives and the country
American Middle Class caught up in a Tent Revival during the Second Great Awakening

6. Unit 4 – Social Reform, Civil War, and Reconstruction U4-U5 Section 1: Reform Movements
What was the
Temperance
Movement?
An early movement to make alcohol illegal
The Middle Class felt alcohol was to blame for crime and poverty and would disappear if alcohol was illegal
The movement didn’t do well, but came back very strong in 1919 – causing Prohibition (The outlawing of Alcohol in the US)
How does this political cartoon support the Middle Class view of the social problems caused by alcohol?

7. Unit 4 – Social Reform, Civil War, and Reconstruction U4-U5 Section 1: Reform Movements
How did the
Education Reforms of
the 1800s change the
US?
Free Compulsory Education came about because of the work of Horace Mann (Lawyer from Massachusetts)
When Mann took over as Secretary of Education in Mass he pushed for longer school years, free school, and made school mandatory
He set up training colleges for teachers
His ideas spread from New England to the rest of the US
Eventually the project Mann began would end up with the US supporting three ideas about education
1. Schools should be free, paid for by taxes
2. Teachers should be trained
3. All children have to go to school by law
Horace Mann

8. Unit 4 – Social Reform, Civil War, and Reconstruction U4-U5 Section 1: Reform Movements
How did the
Education Reforms of
the 1800s change the
US?
Education still was limited for women
It was geared for making them mothers and house keeping, no core subjects
Using the cartoon, what did Mann’s education laws save children from?

9. Unit 4 – Social Reform, Civil War, and Reconstruction U4-U5 Section 1: Reform Movements
How did the struggle
for “Women’s Rights
and Suffrage begin?
In the 1820s Middle Class Women also began to demand the rights promised in the “Bill of Rights”
At the Seneca Falls Convention 200 women met for the Women’s Rights conference in 1848
They were led by Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony
They wrote up a demand for rights and suffrage, “Seneca Falls Resolution” Which reads all most exactly like the “Declaration of Independence” but written for women.
This fight for suffrage continued until when women gained the right to vote
The fight for Women’s rights continues today, the congress has still not written laws guaranteeing women equal rights in the US
Elizabeth Stanton at Seneca Falls

10. Unit 4 – Social Reform, Civil War, and Reconstruction U4-U5 Section 1: Reform Movements
How did the Abolition
Movement change the
US?
Abolitionist were committed to ending slavery – most being from New England or of the Quaker Religion
A lot of them were the same women that were Suffragettes
How is the cartoonist trying to sway men to vote against Woman’s Suffrage?

11. Unit 4 – Social Reform, Civil War, and Reconstruction U4-U5 Section 1: Reform Movements
How did the Abolition
Movement change the
US?
John Brown: tried to raise a slave rebellion, he was captured at Harpers Ferry Virginia and hanged – He became a symbol to the abolitionist
Fredrick Douglas: an escaped slave who educated himself and challenged the US government using US laws to show slavery was illegal
Harriet Tubman: an escaped slave who became a leader of the Underground Rail Road – helping slaves escape to Canada
Harriet Beecher Stowe: who wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” a novel that showed how bad slavery was – the money from the book was used to buy rifles for abolitionist fighting in Kansas
Ultimately the Abolitionist were one of the forces that drove the US to the Civil War and ultimately the end slavery – 13th Amendment