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Antebellum Reform Movements

Antebellum Reform Movements. An Overview. Objectives. After today’s lesson, you will Outline an overview of the reform movements of the early 1800s Discuss the factors which led to these reform movements Outline various aspects in essay writing. Focus Question:.

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Antebellum Reform Movements

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  1. Antebellum Reform Movements An Overview

  2. Objectives After today’s lesson, you will • Outline an overview of the reform movements of the early 1800s • Discuss the factors which led to these reform movements • Outline various aspects in essay writing

  3. FocusQuestion: What factors lead people to seek reforms?

  4. “All was expectancy. Changes were coming. Things were going to happen, nobody could guess what.” – Lucy Larcom

  5. Economic Changes • Market Revolution • Technological Revolution • Transportation Revolution • Energy Revolution • And more

  6. Economic changes fostered social change • Westward expansion • Disruptions of the nuclear family • Mass Immigration • Growth of Mass Political Movements

  7. Reactions to Change • Some will embrace change • Some will grudgingly accept change • Some will reject the changes

  8. Religious Reform • Unitarian Movement • Second Great Awakening • Growth of “American” faiths • Millerites (Adventists) • Mormons Utopian Societies

  9. Education Reform • Growth of Public Schools • Expansion of higher education • Opportunities for women

  10. Women’s Rights • Shift from previous norms • Push for greater women’s health • Push for greater property rights • Push for political rights

  11. Abolition • Resurgence of the Antislavery Movement • Rejected arguments of the Colonization Movement • Rejected arguments of “Fire-Eaters”

  12. Brainstorming

  13. Role of Brainstorming • Standardized Essays require quick prewriting activities • Time management is key • Determine what the question asks • Develop a claim (thesis) • Organization • Brainstorm specific information

  14. Practice Brainstorm a list of ten (10) specific terms to use in writing the following essay:

  15. Practice Brainstorm a list of ten (10) specific terms to use in writing the following essay: Explain the role that changes in the economy led to the blossoming of reform movements in the 1820s through 1850s

  16. Summary • Identify three ways the class today could be improved.

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