1. Bellwork
What reform movement(s) was your assigned reformer a part of. Describe the success of this movement.

2. Transcendentalism and Asylum Reform
Reform mop-up

3. Transcendentalism- What is it?
Focus on self-reliance, nature, and individuality
Said people can transcend (rise above) material things in life to reach a higher level of intellect
Claimed did not need organized religion to do this
You approach perfection when you acquire
knowledge about God, yourself, and the universe
What does this mean???
Who does this threaten?
EMPHASIS ON SIMPLICITY, SELF-RELIANCE, AND NATURE (also Civil Disobedience for Thoreau)
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can you make any connections with modern groups?

4. Mentally Ill and Penitentiary Reform
Before the Reform:
Persons with mental illness were imprisoned and horribly mistreated (“chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience!”)
Other prisoners grossly mistreated as well
Results of Reform:
Mentally ill removed from prisons and put into separate institutions with 24 hour care
Leads to later prison reform
Penitentiary system created- purpose was rehabilitation

5. Vocab Review—From Today
Transcendentalism
Civil disobedience
Prison Reform

6. Vocab Review—2nd Great Awakening
Revivalism: process of bringing something back to life (religion in society in this circumstance)
2nd Great Awakening: a series of religious revivals from s
Camp meetings=method (multiple days, charismatic preachers)
Led to many social reforms (temperance, abolition, etc.)
AME Church: American Methodist Episcopal Church—grew out of the Free African Society (Richard Allen) during the 2nd GA
Utopia: goal=perfect society
Shakers: simplicity, celibacy, dancing
Mormons: organized by Joseph Smith, important to the settlement of the west (moved west because of persecution)

7. Vocab Review– See Social Reform notes (from Friday)—5 minutes
Abolition
Cult of Domesticity
Seneca Falls Convention
Declaration of Rights and Sentiments
Temperance

8. Reform Vocab
The only vocab boxes that should be blank are the people! (+gag rule, civil disobedience, Hudson River School)
You may have been able to complete some of these already (William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton).
You will learn more about most of them during tomorrow’s Baseball Card activity.

9. Complete Baseball Cards!
Due tomorrow! No late cards will be accepted! No Exceptions!
If you will be absent tomorrow, I will expect a picture of your baseball card sent to me via or Remind.

10. Bellwork
Prepare a one minute introduction speech about your assigned reformer. Write the speech out in your bellwork.

11. Baseball Card Meet and Greet

12. Turn in your Baseball Card!
But keep your participation sheet!

13. Not all abolitionists are the same…
William Lloyd Garrison
White, radical, religious reformer
Editor of The Liberator
Wanted immediate emancipation of slaves, without compensation to owners

14. David Walker Free black in the North
Told slaves to FIGHT for their freedom (stop waiting around)‏
Controversial, friend of Garrison

15. Frederick Douglass Born into slavery (MD) in 1817
Taught to read and write (rare)‏
Escaped to New York from Baltimore
Became public speaker
Editor, The North Star
Argued for gradual emancipation with payment

16. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Video
1831- Nat Turner: Enslaved Preacher
Led More than 80 slaves in bloody rebellion in Southampton, Virginia
Whites were outraged
Led to increase in control of African Americans (slave and free)

17. New Restrictions No public speaking w/o white supervision
No reading/writing
No working independently
“slave codes”

18. What did Congress do? Not a whole lot…
Abolitionists flooded Congress with petitions to end slavery
Congress Created Gag rule (limited debate on issues, i.e. slavery)‏

19. Exit Slip