A+Push+for+Reform

=__**Chapter 8 - A Push for Reform**__=



New Movements in America Early Immigration and Urban Reform Women and Reform Seneca Falls Convention Slavery and Abolition
 * Content: Reform in America **
 * 1820-1860 **
 * Chapter 8 **

// Seminal Primary Documents to Read // : Frederick Douglass’s Independence Day speech at Rochester, New York (1852)
 * U.S. **** I Learning Standards: **
 * USI.29 Describe the rapid growth of slavery in the South after 1800 and analyze slave life and resistance on plantations and farms across the South, as well as the impact of the cotton gin on the economics of slavery and Southern agriculture. (H) **


 * USI.30 Summarize the growth of the American education system and Horace Mann’s campaign for free compulsory public education. (H) **

Frederick Douglass William Lloyd Garrison Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Theodore Weld
 * USI.31 Describe the formation of the abolitionist movement, the roles of various abolitionists, and the response of southerners and northerners to abolitionism. (H) **

the increase in the number of Protestant denominations the Second Great Awakening the influence of these trends on the reaction of Protestants to the growth of Catholic immigration
 * USI.32 Describe important religious trends that shaped antebellum America. (H) **

the 1848 Seneca Falls convention Susan B. Anthony Margaret Fuller Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 * USI.33 Analyze the goals and effect of the antebellum women’s suffrage movement. (H) **

// Seminal Primary Documents to Read: // t he Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)


 * USI.34 Analyze the emergence of the Transcendentalist movement through the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. (H) **

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Connections to today:
 * **Religion: ** the growth of the religious right, the growth of “babyboomer churches” which are more modern and casual, the growth of the Mormons in the U.S.
 * **Slavery: ** for this topic, you can generalize to modern day issues with African American rights (affirmative action, a discussion of compensation for past wrongs), or focus on other minority groups which are not receiving a living wage for their work (migrant farm workers, third world sweatshops owned by American companies).
 * **Temperance: ** the war on drugs, legalization of controlled substances, efforts to stop drunk driving, government regulation of tobacco.
 * **Education: ** charter schools, accountability, national standards, block scheduling, Paideia, inequalities in school funding.
 * **Utopian Communities: ** look at modern ideal communities like the one sponsored by Disney in Florida, communal living arrangements like those developments near Chapel Hill, or look at the growth of suburbia, including those communities with strict land use covenants, sign ordinances, etc.
 * **Women’s Rights: ** Title IX funding, single gender classes, admission into military academies, sexual harassment, National Organization for Women.
 * **Treatment of the Mentally Ill: ** Americans with Disabilities Act, poor regulation of nursing home facilities, prison reforms.


 * __Abolitionist Speech - write your own__ **



__** Share your speech **__

- In your **Home Group**, each student must read their speech **out loud**. After each student has read their speech, **pick the best one** to present in front of the class.

- Each Home Group winner will present their speech in front of the entire class. The class will then **vote for the best speech**.