Antebellum Reform Movements:Notes, Gallery Walk/Primary Doc Packet, & more
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Teaching the various reform movements of the early 1800s? Use this selection of activities to get students engaged! Have them start with a puzzle as they learn about 4 movements, introduce the content using these notes, engage them with a set of 8 documents, and have them create reform propaganda.
ZIP FILE INCLUDES:
- Puzzle activity where students work in small groups to introduce reforms (2 PDF pages)
- 8 stations on Antebellum reform movements (PDF: ready to print/post)
- Student handouts (PDF: questions for the puzzle bellringer, questions for EACH station, and culminating activity with rubric)
- Answer KEY
- Teacher directions
CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW!
The notes briefly introduce:
- Antebellum reform causes like the Second Great Awakening and widening democracy
- Various reform movements (temperance/prohibition, public education, abolition, women's rights, utopian societies, etc.)
- Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments
Start by getting students' attention with a puzzle bellringer. Give students one part of a puzzle of antebellum reform movements. Have them meet with group members who make their puzzle complete. They'll briefly learn about a few of the reforms of the time period!
This activity includes EIGHT (8) stations focusing on reform movements. Each station includes background information and an excerpt of a primary source. Get students engaged with the material as they read and learn about:
· Dorothea Dix and reforms for treatment of people with mental illness
· Horace Mann and public school/common school reforms
· Women’s Rights and the Seneca Falls Convention (including the Declaration of Sentiments)
· Women’s Rights Reformers like Sojourner Truth (including her “Ain’t I A Woman?” speech)
· Abolitionist Movement and the work of Anti-Slavery Societies
· Utopian Movements like Brook Farm
· Utopian Movements like the Shaker Religious Communities and Mother Ann Lee
· Transcendentalists (including Henry David Thoreau and an excerpt of Walden)
Possible ways to use the documents:
· Stations! Hang up around room and get students moving (Laminate and reuse!)
· Document packet! Students work in small groups and complete these as a packet
· Have students access electronically
· Complete as a teacher-led, whole class activity
EACH document/station has corresponding questions on the student handout. Don't forget--you have an answer key!
Students will summarize what they've learned through a creative culminating activity where they MAKE a piece of propaganda for a reform of their choice. This activity includes:
- Specific requirements for what students must include
- Student choice! (They can select their media and their topic.)
- A rubric
I use these resources in an American history course when teaching the antebellum. I created these resources when I needed to teach a handful of reform movements in a short amount of time! I hope these resources are as useful for you as they were for me!
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Related Resources
Abolitionist Movement Primary Sources: Douglass, Garrison, Walker, Jacobs, etc.
Early Women's Movement Primary Source Worksheet (Seneca Falls, Truth, Douglass)
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