Assignment Instructions for Reform Unit

Read text Ch11 and Ch16. 

Be able to answer the reading questions Ch11 and Ch16.

Look at Secondary and Primary sources for the Reform Unit. Read those that interest you. Use these as sources for discussion posts, analytic paper or timeline topics.

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For each week,  post

one identification or narrative  to the assignments forum on blackboard, and

at least 3 good messages a week to the discussion forum on blackboard.

Use the list below for ideas of things to research or choose your own topic

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By semester's end, you must turn in one analysis paper and one timeline. These can be about any topic related to US history up through the Civil War and Reconstruction (ca. 1870). You will have a midterm and a final examination.

Some Suggested Terms related to Reform for your weekly assignments

 

Identifications
American Society for the Promotion of Temperance	Charles Grandison Finney	Owens
Calvinist doctrines	Dorothea Dix	Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Maine laws	Magdalene societies	Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Ellery Channing	William Lloyd Garrison	Frederick Douglass
gouging match	Thomas Hobbes	Sojourner Truth
Joseph Smith	Brigham Young	Church of Latter Day Saints
debtors prison	public schools	Prudence Crandall
Emma Hart Willard	David Walker	American colonization Society
William Lloyd Garrison	The Liberator	Harriet Tubman
Catharine Beecher	Sarah J. Hale	Frances Wright
Elizabeth Blackwell	Phoebe Palmer	Sarah Grimké
Angelina Grimké	Lucretia Mott	Charles Fourier
Declaration of Sentiments	Mother Ann Lee	Horace Greeley
James Fenimore Cooper	Henry David Thoreau	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Herman Melville	Edgar Allan Poe
Harriet Beecher Stowe	Walt Whitman	Black Hawk
Mary Anne Sadlier	minstrel show	Stephen Foster
		Choose your own and identify it

 

Narratives
underground railroad	First Great Awakening	Second Great Awakening
Cane Ridge	Seneca Falls Declaration and Resolutions	Oneida community
Fruitlands	Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta	Clotel
		Choose your own and tell it

 

For assignment posts please format the subject with your last name, assignment type and week number, e.g. roebuck-narrative-week 4.