1. Warm up
Complete the handout titled “Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience.”
Get a marker.

2. Agenda
Henry David Thoreau Warm UP
Turn in Homework
Roots of Reform

3. Use a marker and draw the following graphic organizer in your journal Use the whole page!
Roots of the Reform Era
2nd Great Awakening
Transcendentalism
Art
You will write notes here, leave lots of space!
You will write notes here, leave lots of space!
You will write notes here, leave lots of space!

4. Roots of the Reform Era
What early religious movement resulted in the challenging of royal authority during the revolutionary era?
What is one example of civil disobedience that we have studied?
What do you think the focus of early American art is?
Henry David Thoreau's philosophical/religious belief that man was good. Truth could be found in nature. Organized religion and government was corrupting. Thoreau practiced civil disobedience by protesting the Mexican War by refusing to pay his taxes. Some reform movements will use civil disobedience to obtain their goals.
A religious movement that aimed to remove the evils from society. It was the root of social reform in the United States.
John Audubon- American artist that painted birds/nature.
Hudson River School- Art that emphasized the beauty of American nature.