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Task List for Wednesday, February 19th

- Entrance: Packet, ISN

- Preparation: Fill out the Entrance Section of your Packet

- Vocab

- Preview

- Exit: Complete Exit Question in your Packet.

Lesson 18:Era of Reform

To what extent did the reform movements of the mid-1800s improve life for Americans?

Vocabulary

• On page 339 locate the Blue Words on the Right Side of the page.

• Write these words in the Left Column of your vocabulary page in your packet.

• Look through the Lesson to find the definitions of the words.

• Create Symbols to help you remember these vocabulary words.

Vocabulary

• Abolitionist: a person who supported the ending of slavery

• Reform: to make changes in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustices

• Declaration of Sentiments: a formal statement of injustices suffered by women, written by the organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention. Sentiments means “beliefs” or “convictions”.

Vocabulary

• Seneca Falls Convention: the gathering of supporters of women’s rights in July 1848 that launched the movements for women’s right to vote

• Second Great Awakening: a revival of religious feeling and belief from the 1800s to the 1840s

• Transcendentalism: a philosophy emphasizing that people should go beyond logical thinking to reach true understanding, with the help of emotions and intuition

Preview

• Read the lyrics to the song “Let Us All Speak Our Minds” Then answer the questions on page 171 of your Interactive Student Notebook.

Let Us All Speak Our Minds

Men tell us ‘tis fit that wives should submitTo their husbands, submissively, meekly,Tho’ whatever they say their wives should obey,Unquestioning, stupidly, weakly.Our husbands would make us their own dictum takeWithout ever a wherefore or why for it.But I don’t and I can’t, and I won’t and I shan’t!No, I will speak my mind if I die for it.

For we know it’s all fudge to say man’s the best judgeOf what should be, and shouldn’t, and so on,That woman should bow, nor attempt to say howShe considers that matters should go on.I never yet gave up myself thus a slave,However my husband might try for it.For I can’t and I won’t, and I shan’t and I don’t,But I will speak my mind if I die for it.

And all ladies I hope who've with husbands to cope,With the rights of the sex will not trifle,We all, if we choose our tongues but to use,Can all opposition soon stifle.Let man if he will then bid us be still,And silent, a price he'll pay high for it.For we won't and we can't, and we don't and we shan't,Let us all speak our minds if we die for it.(Composed by J. G. Maeder and William Brough)

Let Us All Speak Our Minds

• The song you just analyzed was written in the 1800s to protest the unequal treatment of women.

• During this period, reformers strove not only to end slavery and improve education, but to promote equal rights for women.

• In this lesson, you will examine the reform movements of the period to evaluate the extent to which they improved life for Americans.

Exit Question

• Read Student textbook pg 339

• Based on your reading, propose some possible answers to the Essential Question:

• To what extent did the reform movements of the mid-1800s improve life for Americans?

Task List for Thursday, February 20th



- Reading Sections 1 and 2

- Cornell Notes

- ISN Sections 1 and 2


Sections 18.1 and 18.2

• Read Student Textbook pgs 340 - 342

• Answer the questions on ISN pgs 171 - 172

18.1 The Spirit of Reform

• Religious Movements inspire Americans to improve their society• First Great Awakening: Equal

• All people are equal in the eyes of God

• God knows who is saved and who is going to hell.

• Revolution!

• Great Awakening 2: Equaler• Same long sermons, same tents, different

dudes

• All can gain forgiveness for their sins

• Doing good works helps

18.1 The Spirit of Reform

• Transcendentalism• Man has, like, unlimited powers, man.

You just need to expand your mind

• Transcendentalists added to the spirit of reform by urging people to question society's rules and institutions.

• Might be America’s first punk movement.

• Look to nature and the “God Within”

18.2 Prison Reform

• Dorothea Dix taught Sunday school at a jail in 1841• She was shocked at the conditions.

• Prisoners were locked in cages

• Children were jailed with adults

• She found at Debtor prisons, most people owed less than $20 but couldn’t make money to pay off the debt

• She also discovered that the mentally ill were locked away in crowded prisons.

• As she visited prison after prison, she saw the horrible conditions and wrote down what she saw. She also fought for rights for mentally ill people.

Task List for Friday, February 21st



- Reading Section 3

- Cornell Notes

- ISN Section 3


18.3-18.5

• Read Student Textbook pgs 342 – 349

• Answer the questions on ISN pgs 173-175

18.3 Education Reform

• In the early 1800’s most children did not go to school• Only Puritans had build town schools

• Wealthy people sent children to private schools or hired tutors

• On the frontier, 60 kids might come to a 1 room school house

• In cities, children stole, destroyed property, and set fires

• There was a huge need for reform

18.3 Education Reform

• Horace Mann saw all of this mess and wanted to do something about it

• He became in charge of education in Massachusetts

• He said, “Our means of education,” he stated, “are the grand machinery by which the ‘raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers.”

• He believed that African Americans and Women should receive and education as well.

Task List for Monday, February 24th



- Reading Sections 4-5

- Cornell Notes

- ISN Sections 4-5

- ISN: Processing


18.3-18.5

• Read Student Textbook pgs 342 – 349


18.4 The Movement to End Slavery

• William Lloyd Garrison started an abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator• He felt outraged by Americans’ reliance on slave labor

• He wrote about his feelings even though they were unpopular

• He watched Pro-Slavery groups destroy his printing press

• Frederick Douglass also spoke out against slave labor• He saw the terrible treatment of slave children

• He even started his own newspaper, The North Star

18.4 The Movement to End Slavery

• Sojourner Truth was at the center of two reform movements• She saw both slaves and women being treated as inferior

• She spoke out about what she saw

• She believed God would end slavery peacefully

18.5 Equal Rights for Women

• Women could not vote or hold office.

• Men controled their wives’ money and property.

• Husbands could discipline wives however they wanted.

• Women could not speak in public.

• Women had no representation in government.


• Elizabeth Cady Stanton• She saw women not being allowed to vote and being treated like slaves by

their husbands.

• She felt compelled to speak out that all men and women are created equal and deserve equal rights.

• She wrote speeches that call for women to be given the right to own property, to practice professions, and to vote.


• New York gave women control over their property and wages.

• Massachusetts and Indiana passed more liberal divorce laws.

• Elizabeth Blackwell started her own hospital and medical school.

• Eventually, women gained the right to vote.

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