The Spirit of Reform

Essential Questions

  • Why do societies change?

  • What motivates people to act?

  • How do new ideas change the way people live?

Students will know:

  • the influence of various individuals on social and political developments in the United States

  • the growth of social reform movements between 1820 and 1860

  • the development of the abolitionist movement and its impact

  • what the women's movement fought for and what the results were

Students will be able to:

  • explain how the Second Great Awakening led to an interest in social reform

  • identify and analyze major reform movements and who led them

  • identify transcendentalist authors and describe their work

  • trace the development of the abolitionist movement

  • identify abolitionist leaders and their actions

  • contrast the arguments for and against abolition

  • analyze the impact of the Seneca Falls Convention on the women's reform movement

  • identify and analyze changes in education for women

  • evaluate the result of how women's rights in marriage, family, and careers expanded

Predictable Misunderstandings

Students may think:

  • Religious movements had little effect on early American society.

  • The abolition movement did not begin until just before the Civil War.

  • All Northerners supported abolition.

  • Men and women always had the same educational opportunities.

  • Men and women had the same legal rights in early American society.

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