Warm Up

1. Jacksonian Democracy is primarily characterized as a belief in

A. economic independence
C. the common man
B. isolationist policies
D. big business
2. Under Jacksonian Democracy, voting rights were extended to which
of the following groups?
A. Poor white men and women
C. All adult white men
B. Native American men
D. Land-owning white men
3. Which does NOT describe Jacksonian Democracy?
A. Expansion of voting rights
C. Increased Presidential power
B. The wealthy directing policies
D. The Spoils System

Today in History

October 21st, 1962:

White house misleads press

Kennedy fakes sick
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cold War

Social
Reforms

Social Reforms

Began during
1800s
Aimed to
transform society
Inspired by
Second Great
Awakening
Religious and
spiritual
movement
Emphasized need
to live good life to earn salvation
Traveling preachers led revivals

Educational Reform
Advocated

by
Horace Mann
Wanted access to
public education for
men, women
Created first Board
of Education

Temperance

Wanted to moderate
use of alcohol
Later advocated
total abstinence
Several states
prohibited alcohol
Led by woman,
church leaders

Abolitionist Movement

Southern economy
dependent on slaves
Growing movement
in north to abolish it
From middle-class,
educated church
whites; and
former slaves
Notable leaders:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Lloyd Garrison
Fredrick Douglass

Womens Rights Movement

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Organized first
womens rights
convention Seneca
Falls Conference
Called for womens
suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
Joined fight for
womens right to vote

Independent Work Session: Analyzing Text

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and

usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in
direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over
her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right
to the elective franchise.
He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of
which she had no voice.
He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most
ignorant and degraded men - both natives and foreigners.

Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention 1848

How does this statement reflect the ideas and feelings of

white women living in the 1840? What rights are women
seeking and who is keeping them from obtaining those
rights? What was the major focus of the Seneca Falls
convention? Justify your answers with evidence.

Analyze a political cartoon about temperance. How

does the image reflect the feelings about temperance?

Zinn, Chapter 8
1. How did the US acquire Texas, New Mexico,
Utah, Arizona, California, parts of Colorado, and
Wyoming?
2. What did John OSullivan mean by manifest
destiny?
3. What caused the onset of the US war with
Mexico?
4. What were the opposing views on the war?
5. How did soldiers attitudes change towards the
end of the war? Why?
6. Why did the US pay Mexico $15M if they had won
the war?

Review

1. Elizabeth Cady Stantons work in the 1800s related to which

theme?
A. womens rights
C. the growth of labor unions
B. the growth of big business
D. religious revival

2. The major focus of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was

A. slavery
C. womens rights
B. taxation
D. powers of Congress
Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison, Fredrick Douglass
3. The names on this list are most closely associated with the
A. Womens Movement
C. Abolitionist Movement
B. Second Great Awakening
D. Nativist Movement

4. People who attended a lecture given by Fredrick Douglass in the

1850s most likely listened to him speak about
A. suffrage
C. temperance
B. abolition
D. progressivism

5. All of the following were part of the reform movements of the

first half of the 19th century EXCEPT
A. public schools C. temperance
B. labor unions
D. abolition

6. Read the excerpt and determine which statement BEST

summarizes its meaning. women feel the humiliation of

their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man

feels those of color. It is no palliation (to make less serious)
of our wrongs to say that we are not socially ostracized, so
long as we are politically ostracized as he is not.

a. Women should be inferior to men and endure persecution

b. Though women are not segregated from mainstream society
like blacks, they still suffer the injustice of political
disenfranchisement
c. Black men and all women always suffer injustices in the same
way
d. Women feel as though they suffer injustices like the black
man but in reality they do not