Social Reform 1800's

1. Breaking the System

2. After 1787…..what happens to America?

4. Westward Expansion: the populating of the
land within the continental boundaries of the United
States; a process that began shortly after the first
colonial settlements
Manifest Destiny: Americans are ordained by
God to spread across the land to the Pacific Ocean
eventually… this led to the Homestead Acts (1862): allotting lands to
applicants for small fee; received property and ownership to expand
the United States of America.

5. Westward Expansion
What are the impacts of Westward Expansion?

7. Westward Expansion
What are the impacts of Westward Expansion?

8. Westward Expansion
What are the impacts of Westward Expansion?

9. Westward Expansion
What are the impacts of Westward Expansion?

10. Westward Expansion
What are the impacts of Westward Expansion?

11. What are the impacts of Westward Expansion?

12. Social Reform:an organized attempt to improve what is unjust in
society… using the pictures above, explain how these
are social reform

13. The Abolitionist Movement:

14. Change is in the
air….(causes)…
Abolitionist
Movement
Second Great
Awakening: a dynamic
religious movement in the
early 1800’s;
sinning is wrong, people
have free will and are not
predestined to a life of
suffering
Quakers influence the
thinking in the North towards
equality
1804: Northern states
promise to get rid of
slavery
1807: the slave trade ends
in the United States

15. Abolitionist Movement:
a movement of people who try to abolish(get rid
of) slavery with the methods of speeches,
newspapers, book, activism
:

16. Abolitionist Movement= Women’s Movement
Compare the treatment to
Enslaved Africans Laws Restricting Women in
the 1700’s
1. When married, property to husband
2. In divorce, children were property of
husband
3. Women were restricted to only owning
small business, no other professions
4. Women are not citizens, therefore no
voting, no office, no jury duty
5. Husband could use physical actions to
control wife, ‘rod no larger than thumb’

17. Women’s Movement:
a movement of men and women who try to equal
treatment and access for women; education,
jobs, church, politics, pay, treatment
:

18. StoStory Mapping

19. Onto the project…..

21. Design Thinking: Empathize and Research
Empathisize with chosen a group
Research and define the specific problem.
This problem creates an opportunity for social reform
and ACTION

22. Use the findings of your historical data to
reform an issue with action.
Choose your ACTION, continue research
and use key vocabulary with your action.

23. Why were these restrictions imposed on
women and not men?
Gender:
Activity: the box…..

24. Gender vs. Laws
✱ Gender: is society’ s
expectations for men and
women
✱ No education beyond
primary school
✱ Lack of roles in
leadership and church
✱ Subservient to men in all
matters
✱ Role was in the home and
with the children
✱ Laws of the 1700’s

25. Impact over time….

26. Impact over time….

27. Impact over time….

28. Impact of stereotypes and gender…..

29. Impact of stereotypes and gender…..

30. Man or Woman?

31. Impact of stereotypes and gender…..today!

32. Impact of stereotypes and gender…..today!

33. Gender vs. Laws

34. What is a leader?
Qualities of any
great leader:
honesty, dedication,
confidence, integrity, courage,
proud, passionate, risk taking,
perseverance, wise, educated
in your topic, experience,
inspiration

35. FREDERICK DOUGLAS
✱ Background:
✱ Methods: book, speeches,
activist work and newspaper
✱ “Narrative of a Slave’s Life”
Newspaper, North Star
Reasons:

36. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
✱ Method:newspaper, called
The Liberator and started
anti-slavery committee
✱ n
✱ Reasons: Quaker, religious
reason to get involved, it was
morally wrong

37. HARRIET TUBMAN
✱ Methods: runaway slave who
created a pathway to the
North. Called the
Underground Railroad
✱ Reasons:

38. Underground Railroad

39. Grimke’s Sisters
✱ Methods:
✱ Public speaking, lectures,
traveling the countryside
Reasons:

40. Sojourner Truth
Methods: speeches, lectures,
committees
Reasons: enslaved women who
fought for freedom, worked for
equality for enslaved and
women

41. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Lucretia Mott
✱ Methods:
✱ Reasons

42. BIBLIOGRAPHY
✱ FREDERICK DOUGLASS-www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2962b.html
✱ WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON-
http://www.antiimperialist.com/webroot/PEOPLEdocuments/Membership/Pic
tures/wlgarrison.jpg
✱ HARRIET TUBMAN-http://www.wateristheway.com/blog/wp-
content/uploads/2009/06/tubmancoverphoto5.jpg
✱ GRIEMKE SISTERS-http://www.wateristheway.com/blog/wp-
content/uploads/2009/06/tubmancoverphoto5.jpg
✱ Cotton -http://static-
p3.fotolia.com/jpg/00/00/91/66/400_F_916627_qiJpCrkFGnoKqrstGnoKLVe
XhZjFlm.jpg
✱ Cotton picking_ http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21534/21534-
h/images/img025.jpg