Reform Movements

Reform Movements

By Matthew Clawson

Open Ended

Based on what we have previously discussed in class, how had women's lives changed during the 1800s? What long-term effects did this have?

Think about work and education...

Different Reform Movements

• ​Immigration

• Education

• Abolition ​

• Utopian Societies ​

Subject | Subject

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Changes in American Society

​Immigration

​Higher percentages of European immigrants were moving to America

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Open Ended

What did the graphs on the previous slide show us? Why do you think these trend occurred?

• German and Irish Immigrants sought jobs

• Lived in Tenement Houses

• Nativism​

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Immigration and Big Cities

Multiple Select

Why do you think natives resented these immigrants

• They looked different

• Jobs

• Religion

Romanticism and Transcendentalism

• The belief that people could transcend, or rise above, material things in life. Transcendentalists also believed that people should depend on themselves and their own insights, rather than on outside authorities.

• Return to nature​

• Utopian societies​

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The Second Great Awakening

• A movement to become more religious

• Revivals​

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Open Ended

What do you notice about this image of a backwoods revival?

• Temperance Movement

• Education Reform

• Prison/ Mental illness reform

• Abolition​

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Social Movements