Antebellum Reformers Speed Dating Assignment 1830 - 1860

Assignment You will research one antebellum reformer found in the next few slides. You will present your information in a Speed Dating activity on Thursday December 3. You will participate in character. The questions you will need to be prepared to answer are found at the end of this Power Point. The day of the activity you must bring with your notes that include answers to the questions you will be asked (questions are found at the end of this Power Point) and Bibliography/works cited paged typed.

Grading Notes – 5 Points Bibliography (3 sources on must be primary): 15 points Discussion 15 points - staying in character - level of participation - interaction with other guests - quality of content Total 35 points

Religious Reformers (6) Ann Lee Stanley (Mother Lee) John Humphrey Noyes Brigham Young Charles Finney Joseph Smith Robert Owen

Temperance Activist (3) A temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Lyman Beecher Neal Dow T.S. Arthur

Transcendentalist (3) Person who accepts these ideas not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships. Margaret Fuller Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women’s Rights Activist (8) Sarah Grimke Lucretia Mott Catherine Beecher Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Lucy Stone Amelia Bloomer Elizabeth Blackwell

Abolitionist (8) a person who advocated or supported the ending of slavery Harriet Jacobs Elijah Lovejoy Frederick Douglass Lydia Maria Child Mother Jones Harriet Tubman Sojourner Truth Harriet Beecher Stowe

Social Reformers (5) Dorothea Dix (prison and asylum reform) Horace Mann (education) Sarah Bagley (Labor issues) Noah Webster (Education) Emma Willard (Education)

Find Answers to all these questions What is the biggest issue facing American society today? Why? Can social justice be achieved under the present system of government? Is human nature fundamentally good or bad? Can legislation change human behavior? Should we seek gradual or immediate changes to society? Can society be improved by active involvement or by withdrawal? What makes the good society? What do you think is the most important issue of our times What inspired you to become involved in the work that you do? How were you educated? Have you faced any challenges to your beliefs? By whom? Any violent challenges? Do you know or have you worked with any others who are here today? What do you think about (you may not find answers for all of these) - abolitionism? - women’s rights? - temperance? - other moral reform? - religion and the role of religion in politics? - industrialization? - education? - the Mexican War?

Directions for today’s activity. You will “date” and speak to at least 16 Antebellum reformers today. When “dating” ask them questions on the handout I will give you. Both people should speak back and forth. When “dating” write the name of the reformer, the category they belong to (abolition, women’s rights, temperance, education, prison) and the answers to some of their questions. You will have 1.5 minutes with each person. When you hear the music rotate the person facing the back of the room will rotate. First and third row moves to the right and middle row moves to the left. Have fun and maybe there will be a second date for you in the future 