Name: _________________
US History and Government
Socratic Seminar: Antebellum Social Movements
Government
1) How did the governmental
policies of 1810s-1850s violate
the legal and natural rights of
African Americans?
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Religious
1) What were the aims of prisons,
asylums, and other institutions in the
1810s-1850s?
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Identify the Historical
Context (Circumstances) of
slavery in the United States.
Historical Significance
Identify the Historical Context
of prisons and asylums prior to
this era.
Historical Significance
Economic
1) What were the major forms of
resistance to slavery (by the slaves
themselves)?
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Identify the Historical Context
of economic purpose of slavery
in the United States.
Historical Significance
Social
1) How did family, gender roles,
religion, and values combine to create
distinct slave cultures in the Old
South and beyond the 1800s?
 Identify the Historical Context
(Circumstances)
Historical Significance
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Notable Figures (people) of the
Event
Notable Figures (people) of the Event
Notable Figures (people) of the Event
Notable Figures (people) of the Event
2) How did the governmental
policies of 1810s-1850s violate
the legal and natural rights of
Native Americans?
2) What is the Second Great
Awakening and how did it impact
American society?
2) How did the improvement of
transportation lead to expansion and
population growth (cities, and
transportation hubs)?
2) What were the methods
abolitionists used to challenge
barriers to racial equality and free
speech?
Identify the Historical Context and
explain how transportation led to the
development of the West.
Identify the Historical Context that led
to the abolitionist movement.
Historical Significance
Historical Significance
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Identify the Historical
Context (Circumstances) of
slavery in the United States.
Historical Significance
Identify the Historical Context and
explain how the First Great Awakening
ultimately led to the Second.
Historical Significance
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Notable Figures (people) of the
Event
Notable Figures (people) of the Event
Notable Figures (people) of the Event
Notable Figures (people) of the Event
Name: _________________
US History and Government
3) Identify the Historical Context that
led to the development of the
Temperance Movement:
3) What was the role of women in the
Antebellum Period?
 Government
 Gender Roles
 Religious
 Economic
Identify the Historical Context of the
rights and roles of Women prior to the
Antebellum Period
Historical Significance
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Notable Figures (people) of the Event
Notable Figures (people) of the Event
Book Sources:
1. Give Me Liberty! An American History – Eric Foner
2. The Vineyard of Liberty – James MacGregor Burns
3. The American Pageant – David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen
4. America’s History – James A. Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, Eric Hinderaker, Robert O. Self
5. America: A Narrative History – George Tindall, David Shi
6. 50 Core Documents – Christopher Burkett, editor
7. United States History – Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, Peter B. Levy, Randy Roberts, Alan Taylor, Grant Wiggins (Orange Book)
8. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 – Daniel W. Howe
9. Documents posted to Classroom
Internet Sources:
1. Gilda Lehrman Institute of American History - https://www.gilderlehrman.org/
2. National Women’s History Museum - https://www.womenshistory.org/resources/general/woman-suffrage-movement
3. United States House of Representatives - https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/WIC/Historical-Essays/No-Lady/Womens-Rights/
4. Virginia Commonwealth University - https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/religious/the-temperance-movement/
5. Zinn Education Project – 18th Century - https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/?wpsolr_fq%5B0%5D=period_str%3A18th+Century
6. The National Archives - http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives
Items to be handed in:
1. Your notes, after the Socratic. They need to include your sourcing (a list of where everything came from)
2. Your peer-reviews and self-evaluation (to be handed out the first day of the Socratic Debate)
Name: _________________
US History and Government