Unit Seven Standards
SS.8.A.4.8: Describe the influence of individuals on social and political developments of this era in American History.
SS.8.A.4.9: Analyze the causes, course and consequences of the Second Great Awakening on social reform movements.
SS.8.A.4.14: Examine the causes, course, and consequences of the women's suffrage movement (1848 Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments).
SS.8.A.4.15: Examine the causes, course, and consequences of literature movements (Transcendentalism) significant to this era of American history.
SS.8.A.5.1: Explain the causes, course, and consequence of the Civil War (sectionalism, slavery, states' rights, balance of power in the Senate)
SS.8.C.1.6: Evaluate how amendments to the Constitution have expanded voting rights from our nation's early history to present day.
Unit Essential Questions
- Why do societies change?
- What motivates people to act?
- How do new ideas change the way people live?
Students will understand...
- the effects of the Second Great Awakening.
- what type of American literature emerged in the 1820s.
- how Americans’ attitudes toward slavery changed.
- why the reform movement gained momentum.
- who opposed the abolition of slavery.
- what women did to win equal rights.
- in what areas women made progress in achieving equality.
Words & Phrases to Know
revival, utopia, temperance, normal school, civil disobedience, abolitionist, suffrage, coeducation, Lyman Beecher, Thomas Gallaudet, Hartford School for the Deaf, Samuel Gridley Howe, Dorothea Dix, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, American Colonization Society, Liberia, William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention, Susan B. Anthony, Troy Female Seminary, Mount Holyoke Seminary, Second Great Awakening, Mormons/ Church of Latter Day Saints, Horace Mann, Normal school, civil disobedience, Abolition Movement, Colonization Plan, The Liberator, Sarah & Angelina Grimke, Uncle Tom’s Cabin