Reform Movements Newsletter
- Bulk Pricing:
- Buy in bulk and save
- Contributor:
- Kim VanDusen
- Grade Level:
- 8-12
- Product Type:
- Reading (newsletter format) with comprehension questions
- File Type:
- DOC
- Pages:
- 9 pages with 30 questions
- Answer Key:
- No
Description
Use this 4-page newsletter and matching activity as a quick way to present the students with the causes and effects of the Second Great Awakening and the reform movements of the early 1800s.
Topics include: the Second Great Awakening, deism, Charles Finney and Peter Cartwright, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, the Mormons, utopian communities, Brook Farm, Oneida, Horace Mann and tax-supported education, Noah Webster, Dorothea Dix, temperance, "Republican Motherhood " and women's rights, Elizabeth Blackwell, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stoner, American art and literature of the early 1800s, the American landscape, James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Included with this newsletter is a matching activity that students can use to move through the newsletter.