Chapter 13- Section 3 Reforming Society

(Slide 2) What is the best definition for the term "The Second Great Awakening"?

• A movement in the 1800's that was to meant change how American handled politics

• A Christian Renewal movement in the 1800's.

• The second time your alarm clock tries to wake you up after you hit the snooze button the first time.

• A time during the 1790's and 1800's when some Americans took part in changing alcohol drinking Laws.

(Slide 2) What was the Common-School Movement?

• The idea that all children should be educated in a similar setting regardless of their background.

• The idea that black and white children should not be segregated in schools.

• The idea that all school buildings should look the same so that students do not feel inferior.

• The new state laws that required schools to test all students with a common test, such as the SBAC.

(Slide 3) Who is present in this image?

• Dorothea Dix

• Lyman Beecher

• Horace Mann

• Charles Grandison Finney

(Slide 3) Who is present in this image?

• Dorothea Dix

• Lyman Beecher

• Horace Mann

• Charles Grandison Finney

(Slide 4 Timeline) After Horace Mann became the secretary of Education in Massachusetts, which event happen next on the timeline?

• The Louisiana Purchase

• The Institute for Colored Youth Opens

• The Outsiders is Published

• American Civil War

• American begins  Independence 

(Slide 4 Timeline) How many years after the opening of The Institute for Colored Youth did the Civil War happen?

• 1842

• 1861

• 19

• 100

• 21

(Timeline HLQ)What inference can be made as to why the opening of schools for African-Americans in the North is close in time to the American Civil War?

• As African-Americans in some parts of America were starting to gain rights and education, people began to question how blacks in other parts could still be enslaved property.

• After the American Civil War the first schools for colored children opened in the North as African-Americans finally started gaining equality in all parts of America.

• The opening of schools for African-Americans in the North had no impact on the Civil War as the events were more than a century apart.

(Slide 5) Why did Charles Grandison Finney leave his career as a lawyer and begin preaching?

• Being a preacher paid more than being a lawyer.

• His wife convinced him that it would be an easier career.

• He had a religious experience and it transformed him.

• He had lost too many cases as a lawyer and wanted a change.

(Slide 6) Which areas did “social reformers” attempt to affect during this era? Select ALL the choices that apply.

• Prison Reform

• Policing Reform

• Voting Law Reform

• Slavery Reform

• Education

(Slide 7) Which sentence supports the following claim:

Mentally ill people were tortured in the 1840’s.

• Another target of reform was the prison system.

• Dorothea Dix was a middle-class reformer who visited prisons throughout Massachusetts beginning in 1841.

• Dix reported that mentally ill people frequently were jailed with criminals.

• They (Mentally ill prisoners) were sometimes left in dark cells without clothes or heat and were chained to the walls and beaten.

• Dix spoke of what she saw to the state legislature.