Thursday March 9th 2017

Pick up your spirals folders from the front, take out a

pen/pencil and your bellwork.

Pick up a Reform Movements Guided note template.

We are watching a child labor video and taking notes.

Bellwork: If you could make one positive change in the

world, what would it be? (This does not involve killing bad
people/people you dont like).
Reform Movements Era
 Causes of Reform Era
Rise of democracy: More groups, like women and blacks, organized to raise public
awareness and influence policy.

Second Great Awakening: Religious revival that spread westward during early 1800s
o Message: traveling preachers spread a message of repentance from evil ways of
living (laziness, drunkenness, slavery, etc.)
o Impact: Methodist and Baptists church membership soared
New groups like the Mormons began

Many Americans became involved in reform movements; empowered the masses.

 Causes of Reform Era
Quakers: Continued to emphasize equality and fought for rights of underrepresented. (as they
always had)
o Contributions: abolition, temperance, womens rights.

Changing Role of Women: Industrial Revolution brought women together through factory jobs
o Middle and upper class women organized social functions to support reform movements
o Looking for social and political opportunities outside the home
 Education Reform
Horace Mann
Education
Reform
 Labor
Reform
Labor
Reform
Prison Reform
Prison
Reform
Care for
the
Disabled
Temperance
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
Womens Susan B.
Anthony
Rights
Abolition