For this week, students will choose one of the topics below and research their topic from Chapter 14. With that said, each topic may only be chosen once. There are 13 topics so that makes one topic per person.
Students may use the three guided questions below to research their topic:
1. What was the movement/problem?
2. How did Americans react to this particular movement?
3. What was the result? Good or bad?
Topics:
Religion and Reform
Reforming Education
Abolitionist Movement
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
The Underground Railroad
Women and Reform
Susan B. Anthony
Marriage and Family Laws
Progress in education for women
Education for people with special needs
The Temperance Movement
The Prohibition Movement
The Underground Railroad was an important route used to help African Americans escape slavery. Some of the abolitionists risked prison or even death to help the slaves escape slavery. the Underground Railroad was the network of escape routes from the South to the North. Slaves traveled through the night and went north to get away from slavery. Most slaves who went on the Underground Railroad were mostly traveling on foot. The North Star was their guide. It took a while to get to the North, so during the day people hid in barns, basements, and attics until the nexts night's journey. Abolitionists helped guide the slaves to freedom into the Northern states and Canada. The result of the Underground Railroad was good and bad. It was good because it brought freedom and hope to many slaves in the North. It was also bad because the Underground Railroad only helped a tiny fraction of slaves. It was also bad because some slaves and abolitionists were caught and died. Still, it gave hope to the slaves and gave the abolitionists a way to help some of the slaves. (Words: 189)
ReplyDeleteReligion and reform is a very interesting topic. In the 1800s, there was religious camp meetings called revivals. People would travel very long distances to hear preachers speak and sing. People reacted strongly to this movement. Even so, the Second Great Awakening occurred. There was a spirit of reform in America in the 1800s. Due to this spirit, there was many changes to America. However, one problem was that the Mormon group was made. Also, it made many changes to American religion, education, and literature. Over all, this was a good thing. I mean, who would not want people traveling from all over to hear pastors speak, and bring them closer to God?! Religion now a days is week, I would have loved to live back then, during this major religion streak. How awesome would it be to go to these revivals and see what everybody would be doing or saying?! Even though another problem would be people not supporting this and definitely being against this ( Satan getting into them ) God is always more powerful and He always will be! (182)
ReplyDeleteEducation for women in the 1800s was pretty bad. Most women weren't allowed in schools because women were seen as domestic workers. At this point in history women also lacked many other rights. Rights like voting, divorce, equal pay with men, and so many more rights weren't for women. Basically women raised the children and cleaned the house. Eventually women realized what was happening and decided to do something about it. In July of 1848 200 women and 40 men met for the first women's right meeting, The Seneca Falls Convention. They wrote a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions which, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, stated all the rights women deserved. This set a spark in women and led many states to giving women some rights (ie. California rights given to women). This movement was definitely good. Women deserve equal rights and education to men. And eventually it was seen that way as well. Women were allowed to enter different colleges/schools and even opened some themselves. (168)
ReplyDeleteWilliam Lloyd Garrison is considered to be one of the most interesting and vital male abolitionist. Garrison is also well known for the editing of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded with Isaac Knapp in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He even founded a society named the American Anti-Slavery Society. Garrison's end result was good because he was able to speak to the hearts of slaveholders and speak boldly. Almost everyone in the North agreed and respected Garrison's teaching. And even some slaveholders changed their mind, but not many. (107)
ReplyDeleteThe temperance movement was the "boycott" you could say of alchoholic beverages, it became a big thing in the US in 1825 by Lyman Beecher. he was against drinking and it spread rapidly in the US. over 1 million people supported/followed him. although lots supported him, lots of people opposed him and his beliefs. The temperance movement was a good thing I think, it got lots of people away from drinking, which was a very good thing because drunkedness was making men abuse their wives and families, family neglect, and loss of jobs. I think the movement was a great thing for the US.(105)
ReplyDeleteIn the 1800s, people with disabilities were considered meager, tragic, pitiful individuals unfit and unable to contribute to society, except to serve as ridiculed objects of entertainment in circuses and exhibitions. They were assumed to be abnormal and feeble-minded, and numerous persons were forced to undergo sterilization. And people with disabilities in Germany during the time of war were put into jail for no reason, and if you ask any Germans why they were in jail they wouldn't be able to have an answer. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the first president with a disability, was a great help for the rehabilitation of people with disabilities, but still operated under the notion that a disability was an abnormal, shameful condition, and should be medically cured or fixed. This was a big help but before him as a president people looked down and talked badly about them. (140)
ReplyDeleteThe prohibition took place right after the ratification of the 18th amendment. It was the ban of selling, making, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. The prohibition was looked at with mixed feelings. The women like it because now their husbands weren't getting drunk and abusing/neglecting them. The men were kind of on the fence. Some liked it because they saw that women stopped getting abused and neglected anymore, but some didn't because the government took their favorite drink away. The prohibition was not great because of a few reasons. One was the working class took a hit because of the fact that a bunch of jobs were not illegal. It also brought the economy to its knees. The loss of alcohol led to the inability to tax it. At this time alcohol was one of the things taxed the most. So it was a bad thing in that way. Just about the only good thing it did was help women's rights and stop abuse and neglect.
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Susan B. Anthony was a good woman who fought for what she believed in. She played a major role in temperance and the women’s suffrage movements. Although what she did didn’t have an immediate effect on society, she changed society for the best. Her main partner in crime was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Susan B. Anthony never married, probably for obvious reasons. She was abused and threw all of the opposition, she still continued to travel and make speeches on what she believed in. she also campaigned for the abolition for slavery. She also got the right for women to retain their earning, and to own land.(106)
ReplyDeleteAbolition over all was good, because it was a movement to end slavery, something that was very big at the time. One problem with abolition was that it messed up life in the south, if they took away slavery that would mean that everyone would have to adjust to doing work themselves, and probably take away some of their money because they wouldn't have as many people working for them. Most Americans living in the South reacted with hatred, but others agreed and took action to help. The result of abolition was pretty positive in the end. In the end the abolitionist won and slavery was abolished but many people where NOT happy because their slaves where taken away. (115)
ReplyDeleteThe Abolitionist movement was a movement to end all slavery even if it was formal or informal. In Western Europe and America abolitionism was a historical movement to end the African and Indian slave trade and set slaves free. Although the abolitionist feeling had been strong during the American Revolution and the upper south during the 1820s the abolitionist movement did not coalesce into a militant crusade until 1830s. James Edward Oglethorpe was among the first to articulate the enlightenment case against slavery. After the American Revolution established the United States northern states beginning with Pennsylvania in 1780 passed legislation during the next two decades abolishing slavery. British banned the important of African slaves in its colonies in 1807 and abolished slavery in the British Empire in 1833. The abolitionist movement did have an effect on British and pressured the northern states to gradually start freeing slaves. (147)
ReplyDeleteLet's get something straight: women had so little rights in the 1800s that even after they wanted a divorce, well…actually…THEY COULDN'T EVEN DO THAT YET! When a lady got married, she was stuck. She couldn't divorce if her husband was a jerk or was abuse, nada! So lemme rephrase. In the mid 1800s, women FINALLY got rights for their marriages. If their husband drank too much, they were allowed to divorce. This was huge because we all know that when people aren't sober, the can end up becoming abusive and doing things that aren't…great. It's especially really bad if this is constantly happening, so it's good that this became part of women's rights for marriage. Now you're probably wondering about the fate of their children. Only in some states were women allowed to "share guardianship of their children with their husbands." Also, women got the right to own property after a divorce in the following stats: New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and California ("girls, we're unforgettable!").
ReplyDeleteIn a women's view, this was fantastic! But the men were probably, once again, feeling threatened, you might say. Now women are not only allowed to go to college but also divorce!? They were used to women not having this right! I think the result was good though because women should have a say in their marriage too. (225)
The Abolitionist leader Fredrick Douglass was a former slave who had a high rank in the abolition movement. After he escaped slavery he wanted to help others who were still enslaved. So that’s when he decided to help the abolition movement. He produced different newspapers about him to influence other slaves. It made a big change in America it gave a lot of the slaves hope. His position resulted in a lot of good things to happen. If he never did those things or influence others America would not have been the same as it is right now the way we see it.(103)
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