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Reform of the Early 19th Century Webquest
During the early 19th century as the Second Great Awakening swept across the US and
organized religion grew a new sense of responsibility arose. Many of those who found religion
also felt they had a duty to improve upon American society as well. Your assignment is to
research the five most well-known of the reform period of the time using the websites provided.
Temperance http://www.teachushistory.org/Temperance/forstudents.htm
What is temperance?
Why did many Americans after the Revolutionary War drink to excess? Why did others drink to
excess?
What is the “Cold Water Army”?
How was the Temperance movement a fundamental concept of individual choice and
responsibility?
Prison and Mentally Ill Reform http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=96
What did Dorthea Dix see when she visited East Cambridge jail?
Who did Dix hope to ensure would be treaty humanely?
In what ways was Dorothea Dix successful?
Women’s Rights
http://www.npg.si.edu/col/seneca/senfalls1.htm
Who were the two women who first had the idea of planning the Seneca Falls Convention?
What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton write that would define the meeting?
Which former slave from Rochester, NY was at the convention and supported its goals?
The Women decided a convention was needed to “discuss the ____________________,
____________________, and ____________________, and rights of women.”
Education
http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/horace.html
Who is considered to be the “Father of Common School”?
What new position was Horace Mann elected to in 1837?
What is the “Common School Movement”?
Who did Mann argue for the recruitment for into teaching?
Abolition Movement
http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/brief.htm
Who made up the Society of Friends that virtually stood alone as the only professing the wrongs
of slavery in colonial era North America?
Although the Trans-Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, why did anti-slave agitation drop off in
America? (Especially the south)
What was the African Colonization Society?
What was the purpose of the American Anti-Slavery Society?
Answer the following question about some of the most well-known abolitionist of the 19th
Century.
William Lloyd Garrison
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1561.html
What is the name of Garrison’s anti-slavery newspaper?
What happened to Garrison as a child that may have influenced his life as an adult abolitionist?
Why did Garrison no longer want to be part of the American Colonization Society?
What organizations did Garrison form that were the first organizations dedicated to promoting
the immediate emancipation of slaves?
What issue divided the once friends, William Lloyd Garrison and Fredrick Douglass, that they
never reconciled?
Fredrick Douglass
http://www.nps.gov/frdo/historyculture/people.htm
Where was Douglass born, and what was he the moment he was born?
How did Douglass become free in 1838?
What prominent abolitionist invited Douglass to join the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society?
What did Douglass need to prove to those who doubted he ever was slave based on how well he
spoke?
Why did this book force him to flee to England?
What was the name of the anti-slavery newspaper owned by Douglass?
Harriet Tubman
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html
Tubman was the most well-known “conductors” of what?
What was the purpose of the drug Tubman carried? What was the purpose of the gun she
carried?
How much money was offered for her capture in 1856?
By 1860, how many trips did Tubman make to help slaves escape to freedom?