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Reforming American Society

Reforming American Society. Bell Ringer: What is reform? How did individuals work to reform American society in the 1800s? How would you reform American society today? Vocabulary to know: Social Reform Temperance Movement Transcendentalist Suffrage Civil Disobedience. Bell Ringer.

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Reforming American Society

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  1. Reforming American Society Bell Ringer: • What is reform? • How did individuals work to reform American society in the 1800s? • How would you reform American society today? • Vocabulary to know: • Social Reform • Temperance Movement • Transcendentalist • Suffrage • Civil Disobedience

  2. Bell Ringer • Which reformer do you find was the most influential and why? • Besides slavery, what was in need of the most reform and why?

  3. Social Reform-An organized attempt to improve what is unjust or imperfect in society. Dorothea Dix: • Boston schoolteacher. • Tried to improve society’s care for its weakest members. • Witnessed the mentally ill not receiving treatment and living in terrible conditions. • Would travel the U.S. on behalf of the mentally ill.

  4. Education Reform • Horace Mann: • 1830s- Americans begin to demand better schools. • 1837- First Board of Education set up in Massachusetts headed by Mann. • By 1850 many Northern states have opened public elementary schools. • What were some obstacles faced? Public education is “the great equalizer”.

  5. Women’s Rights • Elizabeth Stanton: • Abolitionist-worked along side Lucretia Mott and William Garrison. • Demanded equality for women through voting rights. • Frederick Douglass and Stanton fought for suffrage. • Held the Seneca Falls Convention with Mott in 1848.

  6. 1865

  7. What do you see? How are women portrayed?

  8. Transcendentalist • Ralph Emerson: • New England writer. • Most popular essayist and lecturer. • Leading transcendentalist. • Urged Americans to cast off European influences and develop their own beliefs. • Stressed individualism • Believed that human spirit was reflected in nature. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ”—Ralph Waldo Emerson.

  9. Henry Thoreau • Emerson’s friend and neighbor. • Believed the growth of cities and industry was ruining the nation. • Urged people to live as simply and as close to nature as possible. • Argued in favor of civil disobedience.

  10. Edgar Allan Poe • Fiction writer who would shape American literature. • Became famous for his many tales of horror. • Known as the “father of the detective story”. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-387NMCR6w • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlgQQgDhH7U

  11. R.A.F.T. Role-Who will you portray? • Choose one of the reformers from the homework. Audience- Who will you be writing to? • You could write to yourself in a diary entry, the public in a speech or newspaper article, a loved one/friend in a letter or poem, etc. Format-What type of format or writing style will you use? • Examples: song, newspaper article, journal entry, letter, public speech, poem, plea or announcement. Topic- What important event will you be writing about? • Examples: Outlining goals for a movement, asking for a favor from a fellow reformer, reflecting on your successes/failures, declaring changes in society, etc.

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