1. DBQ Practice
Reform

2. “Reform movements in the US sought to expand democratic ideals
“Reform movements in the US sought to expand democratic ideals.” Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to the years

3. Key Words
Reform Movements
Democratic ideals
Time frame

4. Brainstorm Political changes – democracy
Economic changes – market economy
New social relationships – Anxiety
MOVEMENTS: consider all possible options
Key people

5. Thesis Statements
Write TWO

6. Organizing Ideas
Strategy for attacking your essay
Graphic organizer

7. Write your first paragraph

8. 2002 DBQ Must Use documents and outside information
Divide Documents in the triad:
Author
Main Idea
Significance
Inference

9. Doc A Prison – prevention differentiated
Reform – moral & religious objectives
Environmental influences
Education as tool for reform

10. Doc B FINNEY – author associated w/2GA Impact of 2GW
Free will, equality, salvation
Emphasis on emotion
Personal Christianity
Ideas about “sinners”

11. Doc C Slaves have rights – brutality of slavery Family ties
Ties women’s rights and abolition – both slaves and women are “chained”
Contradiction of D of I and rights of minorities

12. Doc D Morse – telegraph Immigration as a threat –new immigrants
NATIVISM
Anti Catholic
Conspiracy
Limit the political rights of immigrants

13. Doc E Education as source of moral reform
Middle class values – hard work, etc
Education as method of self improvement and stability of the social order
Accept growing inequalities created by the market revolution
Order and contentment w/ place – needed in democratic society
Public education

14. Doc F Brook Farm – transcendentalism Utopian reform
Emphasis on community and cooperation – contrast with competition of new market economy
Reaction against the changes created by the market economy

15. Doc G Contrast w/ Brook Farm Critical of utopian communities
Reform as a threat to existing democratic social order
Critical of efforts to change society
Reformers ignore accomplishments of the past
Keep social order as it exists

16. Doc H Temperance Drinking as a threat to social order
Dilemma for males
Threat to family
Reminds of needs of the market economy – sobriety and of MC values – family
Reminds of Cult of Domesticity and Doctrine of Two Spheres

17. Doc I Women’s Rights grounded in the D of I – democratic values
Legal reform
Challenges to the existing social order

18. OUTSIDE INFO
Key “stuff” is intentionally left out – so you have some outside info to add – thus pay attention to what IS NOT given in documents
NO QUOTES when you incorporate documents may cite information by simple parenthetical EX.
Charles Finney changes traditional Calvinist belief by his emphasis on free will and use of emotion (B), but this raised concerns from some like Beecher that he’s gone to far.
Finney made salvation accessible to ALL – the ultimate in democratic ideas – that ONE was responsible and capable of change (B).