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Reforming Antebellum Society, 1815 - 1850
Chapter 14
AP American History
Essay’s
1. Trace the development of the woman suffrage movement and account for its success.
2. Account for the emergence of utopian communities from the mid-1820’s through the 1840’s, and evaluate their success or failures.
3. “American social reform movements from 1820 to 1860 were characterized by unyielding perfectionism, impatience with compromise, and distrust of established social institutions. These qualities explain the degree of success or failure of these movements in achieving their objectives.”
Discuss with reference to both antislavery and one other reform movement. (example: prisons, suffrage, utopianism)
4. “In the reform period from 1820 to 1850, the sectional differences in the country were heightened.”
Assess the validity of this statement referring to at least two reform movements.
5. “At various times between 1789 to 1850, Americans changed their positions on the constitutional question of loose interpretation or strict interpretation as best suited their economic or political interests.”
Discuss this statement with reference to any two individuals or groups who took positions on this question.
6. “American reform movements between 1820 and 1850 reflected both optimistic and pessimistic views of human nature and society.”
Assess the validity of this statement in reference to reform movements in three of the following areas:
- Education - Temperance - Women’s rights - Utopian Societies - Penal Institutions.
Term’s
Second Great Awakening Benevolent Empire Charles G. Finney Sabbatarian Movement
American Colonization Soc. Shaker Robert Owen New Harmony, Ind.
American Temperance Soc. David Walker Joseph Smith William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator New England Anti-Slavery Soc. NY Female Reform Soc. “gag rule”
Horace Mann Elijah P. Lovejoy Sarah Grimke Abolitionists
Brook Farm Liberty Party Mormons Utopian Society
Oneida Community John Humphrey Noyes Seneca Falls Suffrage
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Washington Temperance Soc. Workingmen’s Mvmt. Educational Reform
Communism Socialism Penal Reforms Fourierist Communities
Transcendentalism Walt Whitman Waldon Pond Herman Melville
Ralph Waldo Emerson Boston Seamen’s Aid Soc. Colonization Freedom’s Journal
Gradualist Immediatist Political Antislavery Anarchists
Declaration of Sentiments Fredrick Douglass “Slave Power” John Q. Adams
Grimke Sisters Theodore Weld Dorothea Dix Underground Railroad