How did reformers and writer inspire change and spark controversy?
5: I can explain how reformers and writers inspired
change and sparked the Civil War
 4: I can connect how American literature and arts
sparked the Civil War
 3: I can trace how the abolition movement lead to
the Civil War.
 2: I understand how the Second Great Awakening,
Temperance movement and Education reform
changed the American society.
 1: I recognize that many reformers and writers did
inspire change and spark controversy but not sure
how.
 0: I can not explain what reformers and controversies
mean in regards to the time period of 1820 to 1860.
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Where did the Second Great Awakening begin?
Who called for the women’s suffrage
convention?
What is the difference between suffrage and
rights?
Give an example of the underground railroad.
What is abolitionism?
What is an Utopian community?
What is the purpose of an Utopian community?
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Why it matters: Age of Jackson spread the
idea of democracy across the country. This
spirit influenced religious ideas and inspired
people to react to improve American society.
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Reform: To make a change to create a
positive difference is to re-form.
Social reform: It is an organized attempt to
improve conditions of life.
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Increase ability to vote for White Americans
Created a change socially and politically
Ideas of different opinions are being heard in
the political circle like: slavery and women
suffrage.
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Encouraged reform
People began to believe they had the power
to improve themselves and society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjt392m
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Page 415
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Utopian communities is the desire to create a
perfect society.
New Harmony, Indiana
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Effort to end or reduce end alcohol abuse and
the problems created by it.
Women where often drawn to this
movement. Why?
Temperance: or moderation in drinking.
Prohibition: a total ban on alcohol.
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Dorothea Dix was a reformer that tried to
make prisons more human. Page 417
Dix encourages Massachusetts to take
mentally ill out of prison and put into Hospital
to receive help. This would provide
treatment not punishment.
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Early 1800’s
Many ministers challenged some traditional
views such as “predestination” and “slavery”
Predestination is the ideas that God had
determined your faith before your birth.
Therefore, “sinners’ could repent and reform
their sinful life.
Questioned rather “slavery” was right.
Revivals would last for days or weeks
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Massachusetts first state to require public
schools supported by taxes
Horace Mann known as the “Father of Public
Education”
He extended school days and trained
teachers
Literacy rates increased drastically in the
North but not as much in South. Why?
Page 420-421
After studying page 412-413, give your opinion
on how these reforms relates to the chapter
question.
 Second Great Awakening
 Utopian Community
 Public Education
 Underground Railroad
 Abolitionism
 Women’s Rights
Doctrine: Doctrine is a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a church, political party or
other groups.
Essay:
Topic:
The belief and preaching of free will from leaders of the Second Awakening did promote
democracy in America.
Supporting sentences:
First, The Great Awakening was a spark of religious fervor in America in the 1800’s that
challenged religious views of the church doctrine. Before the 1800’s many churches
practiced the idea of predestination which is that God sets your destiny even before you
are born. Preachers in the Great Awaking era preached that people’s own actions is what
determined their own salvation or destiny. Therefore, men and women had a part in their
destiny and that they could reform their wrong ways and set a path to righteousness.
Secondly, The Second Great Awakening stirred emotions among the American people and
many people worked to make the political system even fairer. I idea of suffrage for all