DBQ Practice

1. DBQ Practice Reform

2. “Reform movements in the US sought to expand democratic ideals.” Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to the years 1825-1850.

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).