Chapter 8 Reforming American Society
Scrapbook Project
OVERVIEW:
In groups of 2-3 students, you will be collaborating in the creation of a visual album (think scrapbook) using
Google Slides representing various reform movements of the 19th century.
REQUIREMENTS:
Below are the required components for your scrapbook. Make sure you include everything that is indicated.
Failure to do so will result in a loss of points. You are using the textbook as your source of information.
COVER SLIDE (5 PTS):
 Title of the Photo Album- Create your own.
 Image(s) that embodies the Reform Movements as a whole.
o Think collage.
 Your names.
INDEX SLIDE (10 PTS): Save to do until the end
 Write each bolded term you see below and their corresponding slide number
 Write a descriptive overview for each major chapter section (religion, slavery, women, and workplace).
o Should be 3-4 sentences in length for each overview.
TOPIC / SECTION SLIDES: You must create a slide for each bolded and underlined term. The words under
that bolded item need to be included in some way, shape, or form on that slide. This part of the project is to
be creatively composed with applicable images and well written captions. Images can include: political
cartoons, symbols of the different movements, key people taking part in the movements and use of real
photos. Additionally, you must include an image or quote for noted people.
Chapter 8.1 Religion Sparks Reform (20 PTS)
 Second Great Awakening (Charles Grandison Finney – Image/Quote)
 Revivalism
 The African-American Church (Richard Allen – Image / Quote)
 Transcendentalism and Reforms (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau – Images / Quotes)
 Civil Disobedience
 Unitarianism (William Ellery Channing – Image / Quote)
 Americans Form Ideal Communities – Utopian Communities (New Harmony, Indiana / Brook Farm,
Boston / George Ripley / The Shakers – Images / Quotes)
 Schools and Prisons Undergo Reform (Alexis de Tocqueville / Dorothea Dix – Images / Quotes)
 Improving Education (Horace Mann of Massachusetts – Image / Quote)
Chapter 8.2 Slavery and Abolition (15 PTS)
 Abolitionists Speak Out (James Forten / William Lloyd Garrison /
 David Walker / Frederick Douglass – Images / Quotes)
 Life Under Slavery
 Rural Slavery (Solomon Northup – Image / Quote)
 Urban Slavery
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Nat Turner’s Rebellion (Nat Turner – Image / Quote)
Slave Owners Defend Slavery
Virginia Debate (John Floyd – Image / Quote)
Backlash from Revolts
Proslavery Defenses (George Fitzhugh – Image / Quote)
Chapter 8.3 Women and Reform (20 PTS)
 Women’s Roles in the Mid-1800s (Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Lucretia Mott – Images / Quotes)
 Cult of Domesticity
 Women Mobilize for Reform
 Women Abolitionists (Sarah and Angelina Grimke – Images / Quotes
 Working for Temperance (Mary C. Vaughan – Image / Quote)
 Education For Women (Mary Lyon / Prudence Crandall – Images /Quotes)
 Women and Health Reform (Elizabeth Blackwell / Catharine Beecher / Amelia Bloomer – Images /
Quotes)
 Women’s Rights Movement Emerges
 Seneca Fall Convention
 “Declaration of Sentiments”
 Sojourner Truth (Image / Quote)
Chapter 8.4 The Changing Workplace (15 PTS)
 Industry Changes Work
 Rural Manufacturing and early factories
 The Lowell Mill: Conditions and Strikes
 Workplace Reform
 National Trades’ Union
 Commonwealth v. Hunt
SUMMARY PAGE (5 PTS):
 The group will discuss and formulate an opinion based on examples / support regarding which
movement was most successful.
 Should be approx. 7-10 sentences in length.
IMPORTANT DATES:
You will have Jan 19-22, 25 to work on this in class with your partner(s). Depending on your class’ work ethic,
you may be given more time. Whatever you don’t finish in those days will need to be done outside of class.
Your project is due on Friday January 29.
You will also be graded on your use of time, neatness, grammar, and creativity. This is a very large project and
it is worth more than the tests you take in this class. For this reason, you should make a point to not only take
this assignment very seriously, but also choose your partner(s) wisely. There will be a partner evaluation sheet
given out at the end, and you will be grading your own contributions as well as your partner(s), so keep that in
mind as you work.