1. 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).

2. Reform Movements Era

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Education Reform
Horace Mann

6. Education Reform

7. Labor Reform

8. Labor Reform

9. Prison Reform

10. Prison Reform

11. Care for the Disabled

12. Temperance

13. Women’s Rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony

14. Abolition