Bell RingerDate: April, )Get in any missing assignments from 3 rd Marking Period. You have 1 week left until Report Cards! 2) Take out your Bell Ringers March 29 th to April 1 st Answer this question below. It will be collected. What career field do you think you will try to pursue in college?

Chapter 12 An Age of Reform Section 1: Improving Society In the 1830s, many Americans became interested in social reform. The expansion of democracy and the Second Great Awakening, which urged people to reform their lives, led people to believe that they could improve society. Americans worked for the reform of the public school system and prisons and for an end to alcohol abuse. Chapter Summary

Chapter 12 An Age of Reform Chapter Summary (continued) Section 2: The Fight Against Slavery By 1804, every northern state had ended slavery or pledged to end slavery. Some Northerners became abolitionists. Whites, free African Americans, and escaped slaves spoke out against slavery and published antislavery newspapers. Many people helped slaves escape the South via the Underground Railroad.

Chapter 12 An Age of Reform Section 3: A Call for Women’s Rights Women who worked in other reform movements began to focus on rights for themselves. The women’s rights movement was launched at the Seneca Falls Convention in Women demanded suffrage and other rights that only men enjoyed at the time. They opened schools and colleges for women and began to enter traditionally “male” professions. Chapter Summary (continued)

Chapter 12 An Age of Reform Chapter Summary (continued) Section 4: American Literature and Arts By the mid-1800s, American writers, artists, and musicians had turned away from European styles and themes and were creating an American style. They also focused on subject matter that was uniquely American. Transcendentalism was one movement that had an influence on American literature.

1)How did key people bring about reform in education and society? Prisons and Mental Health is in need on Improvement We need Public Education for informed citizens “FREE WILL” Improve Yourself = Improve Society “FREE WILL” Improve Yourself = Improve Society

2) How did abolitionists try to end slavery? “Follow the Underground Railroad” “Read about my experience as a Slave” “Read my newspaper about the cruelties of Slavery”

3) How did the women’s suffrage movement begin?

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BONUS QUESTIONS! Directions: Answer any 2 of the following: A - How was school different in the 1800’s then today? B - Who were “conductors” on the Underground Railroad? C - Which amendment gave women the right to vote? D - Who wrote “O Captain, My Captain?