RESEARCH TOPICS

Harriet Tubman – each of the bullets represent your focus for each of your paragraphs in your paper, so write the information in order across your grid. Each topic is one of the bullets. Make sure your topic sentences relate to these.

  • Life – abbreviated Biography
  • Historical Background – What was happening in the country at this time concerning the historical figure?Second Great Awakening, History of slavery in Americaand/or abolitionist movement– how does it begin and end?
  • What did they think needed to be reformed or changed and why? What was the life of a slave like?
  • What did they do to try to make these changes happen and what challenges did they face? GIVE SPECIFIC DETAILSUnderground Railroad
  • REFLECTIONWhat were the results of their efforts and what impact does it have on society today? Thoughts? Be sure to include the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and what they mean in your own words.

Fredrick Douglass– each of the bullets represents your focus for each of your paragraphs in your paper, so write the information in order across your grid. Each topic is one of the bullets. Make sure your topic sentences relate to these.

  • Life – abbreviated Biography
  • Historical Background – What was happening in the country at this time concerning the historical figure?Second Great Awakening, History of slavery in Americaand/or abolitionist movement– how does it begin and end?
  • What did they think needed to be reformed or changed and why?What was the life of a slave like?
  • What did they do to try to make these changes happen and what challenges did they face?North Star, speech “What the Black Man Wants” and/or What to the Black Man is Your 4th of July
  • REFLECTIONWhat were the results of their efforts and what impact does it have on society today? Thoughts?Be sure to include the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and what they mean in your own words.

Sojourner Truth- each of the bullets represents your focus for each of your paragraphs in your paper, so write the information in order across your grid. Each topic is one of the bullets. Make sure your topic sentences relate to these

  • Life – abbreviated Biography
  • Historical Background – What was happening in the country at this time concerning the historical figure?Second Great Awakening, History of slavery in Americaand/or abolitionist movement and/or women’s rights movement – how does it begin and end?
  • What did they think needed to be reformed or changed and why?What was the life of a slave like?
  • What did they do to try to make these changes happen and what challenges did they face? “Ain’t I a woman”
  • REFLECTIONWhat were the results of their efforts and what impact does it have on society today? Thoughts? Be sure to include the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and what they mean in your own words.

Horace Mann- each of the bullets represents your focus for each of your paragraphs in your paper, so write the information in order across your grid. Each topic is one of the bullets. Make sure your topic sentences relate to these

  • Life – abbreviated Biography
  • Historical Background – What was happening in the country at this time concerning the historical figure?Second Great Awakening, What was society like? What was school like in the early 1800s?
  • What did they think needed to be reformed or changed and why?Who was allowed to go to school? What subjects were boys taught? Girls taught?
  • What did they do to try to make these changes happen and what challenges did they face? Normal schools, new laws about education
  • REFLECTIONWhat were the results of their efforts and what impact does it have on society today? Thoughts?Who has access to education today?

Harriet Beecher Stowe- each of the bullets represents your focus for each of your paragraphs in your paper, so write the information in order across your grid. Each topic is one of the bullets. Make sure your topic sentences relate to these

  • Life – abbreviated Biography
  • Historical Background – What was happening in the country at this time concerning the historical figure?Second Great Awakening, History of slavery in Americaand/or abolitionist movement– how does it begin and end?
  • What did they think needed to be reformed or changed and why?What was the life of a slave like?
  • What did they do to try to make these changes happen and what challenges did they face?Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  • REFLECTIONWhat were the results of their efforts and what impact does it have on society today? Thoughts? Be sure to include the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and what they mean in your own words.

William Lloyd Garrison - each of the bullets represents your focus for each of your paragraphs in your paper, so write the information in order across your grid. Each topic is one of the bullets. Make sure your topic sentences relate to these

  • Life – abbreviated Biography
  • Historical Background – What was happening in the country at this time concerning the historical figure?Second Great Awakening, History of slavery in Americaand/or abolitionist movement– how does it begin and end?
  • What did they think needed to be reformed or changed and why?What was the life of a slave like?
  • What did they do to try to make these changes happen and what challenges did they face?The Liberator
  • REFLECTION: What were the results of their efforts and what impact does it have on society today? Thoughts? Be sure to include the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and what they mean in your own words.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - each of the bullets represents your focus for each of your paragraphs in your paper, so write the information in order across your grid. Each topic is one of the bullets. Make sure your topic sentences relate to these

  • Life – abbreviated Biography
  • Historical Background – What was happening in the country at this time concerning the historical figure?Abolitionist movement, …what was women’s role in society?
  • What did they think needed to be reformed or changed and why?Discuss the unequal treatment of women
  • What did they do to try to make these changes happen and what challenges did they face?Declaration of Sentiment, Seneca Falls Convention
  • REFLECTIONWhat were the results of their efforts and what impact does it have on society today? Thoughts?Must include Amendment 19 in your own words.

Susan B Anthony - each of the bullets represents your focus for each of your paragraphs in your paper, so write the information in order across your grid. Each topic is one of the bullets. Make sure your topic sentences relate to these

  • Life – abbreviated Biography
  • Historical Background – What was happening in the country at this time concerning the historical figure?Abolitionist movement …what was women’s role in society?
  • What did they think needed to be reformed or changed and why?
  • What did they do to try to make these changes happen and what challenges did they face?National Woman Suffrage Association,

Arrested in 1872 – find out why

  • REFLECTIONWhat were the results of their efforts and what impact does it have on society today? Thoughts?Must include Amendment 19 in your own words.

Nat Turner - each of the bullets represents your focus for each of your paragraphs in your paper, so write the information in order across your grid. Each topic is one of the bullets. Make sure your topic sentences relate to these

  • Life – abbreviated Biography
  • Historical Background – What was happening in the country at this time concerning the historical figure?Second Great Awakening, History of slavery in America – how does it begin and end?
  • What did they think needed to be reformed or changed and why? What was the life of a slave like?
  • What did they do to try to make these changes happen and what challenges did they face?Nat Turner’s Rebellion
  • REFLECTIONWhat were the results of their efforts and what impact does it have on society today? Thoughts? Be sure to include the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and what they mean in your own words.

John Brown - each of the bullets represents your focus for each of your paragraphs in your paper, so write the information in order across your grid. Each topic is one of the bullets. Make sure your topic sentences relate to these

  • Life – abbreviated Biography
  • Historical Background – Second Great Awakening, Abolitionist Movement, history of slavery in America. What was happening in the country at this time concerning the historical figure?
  • What did they think needed to be reformed or changed and why? What was the life of a slave like?
  • What did they do to try to make these changes happen and what challenges did they face?Bleeding Kansas, Harper’s Ferry
  • REFLECTIONWhat were the results of their efforts and what impact does it have on society today? Thoughts? Be sure to include the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and what they mean in your own words.

Lucretia Mott - each of the bullets represents your focus for each of your paragraphs in your paper, so write the information in order across your grid. Each topic is one of the bullets. Make sure your topic sentences relate to these

  • Life – abbreviated Biography
  • Historical Background – Abolitionist movement, What was happening in the country at this time concerning the historical figure?
  • What did they think needed to be reformed or changed and why?World Anti Slavery Convention in London
  • What did they do to try to make these changes happen and what challenges did they face?Seneca Falls Convention
  • REFLECTIONWhat were the results of their efforts and what impact does it have on society today? Thoughts?Must include Amendment 19 in your own words.

Lyman Beecher: Temperance movement -each of the bullets represents your focus for each of your paragraphs in your paper, so write the information in order across your grid. Each topic is one of the bullets. Make sure your topic sentences relate to these

  • Life – abbreviated Biography
  • Historical Background – Second Great Awakening, What was happening in the country at this time concerning the historical figure?
  • What did they think needed to be reformed or changed and why?
  • What did they do to try to make these changes happen and what challenges did they face?
  • REFLECTIONWhat were the results of their efforts and what impact does it have on society today? Thoughts?

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce - each of the bullets represents your focus for each of your paragraphs in your paper, so write the information in order across your grid. Each topic is one of the bullets. Make sure your topic sentences relate to these

  • Life – abbreviated Biography
  • Historical Background – What was happening in the country at this time concerning the historical figure?Homestead Act, Pacific Railroad Act, Bureau of Indian Affairs – when and why was it started? What did it do?
  • What did they think needed to be reformed or changed and why?US Government’s treatment of the Native Americans, Indian Reservations, life on the reservations, How did the Nez Perce live their lives before government interference?
  • What did they do to try to make these changes happen and what challenges did they face?Flight to Canada – successes and failures?
  • REFLECTIONWhat were the results of their efforts and what impact does it have on society today? Thoughts?