Lesson 6. What issues dominated the reform era of the early 19th century?      Women's rights, abolition, temperance, urban issues, education reform.

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Introduction: 

Tasks ideas
1. Identify documents - which issue and which side of the argument
2. Timeline showing each issue and its related constitutional amendments. Ask student to decide  which issue took the longest to be resolved in constitution
3. Take a side on one of three issues and write a letter to the editor or develop a poster.
4. Write a short scene from  a play about two people debating one of the issues.
5. Complete a Venn diagram on the similarities and difference between each of the three issues
6. Documenting my world - Take a position on a current social issues and write a letter to the editor or develop a poster.

Documents

Womens' Rights

Abolition

Temperance

Other

Temperance

Digital Archive of the Anti-Saloon League

Cartoons from the Prohibition Party

American Temperance and Prohibition

Ardent Spirits Ardent Spirits. The Origins of the American Temperance Movement.

T.S.Author. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room. Boston: L.P.Crown & Co., 1854. In the 1850s, this book was second only to Uncle Tom’s Cabin in popularity, selling over a million copies. William W. Pratt dramatized the tale, and the stage version played continuously in the United States from the 1850s until the 1930s, often incorporating the popular temperance song "Father, Come Home." The narrative contains examples of three drunken-man themes: one drunkard is banished to the poorhouse, leaving his family destitute; another is killed in a bar-room brawl; a third, after causing his own daughter’s death, makes a vow never to drink again and is eventually restored to respectability.

Additional Sources Womens' Rights:

Godey's Lady's Book Online:  several issues from 1850:  http://www.history.rochester.edu/godeys/
Several issues from 1852 and 1855, courtesy of Hope Greenberg:  http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/godey/

A selection of articles on fashion from Frank Leslie’s (1864), Ladies’ Home Journal (1893-95), and McCalls (1908)
http://www.costumegallery.com/Vintage/Publications.htm

Women's Rights' http://search.eb.com/women/index.html

Plus LOC image collections:
Women's Activities During the Civil War: A Select List of Photographs (text and some images)

Letters & Diary Entries of Susan B. Anthony Concerning Her Casting a Vote in the 1872 Federal Election  http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/anthony/voteletters.html

Cultural Change See how the rhetoric of women’s rights evolved from the “Declaration of Sentiments” of 1848 to the suffragist arguments that finally prevailed.

Women’s Suffrage: Why the West First?  Students compile information to examine hypotheses explaining why the first nine states to grant full voting rights for women were located in the West.

 SB Anthony Biography http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/biography.html

 Carrie Chapman Catt Biography http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/naw/cattbio.html

 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Biography http://www.nps.gov/wori/ecs.htm

 Elizabeth Blackwell Biography http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWblackwell.htm

Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement http://www.lib.rochester.edu/rbk/women/women.htm