Era+of+Reform

=**Era of Reform Research Page**=

__**Important People from the Era of Reform:**__
//click on the following individuals to read a biography of that person.//
 * [|Sojourner Truth]
 * [|Ralph Waldo Emerson]
 * [|Henry David Thoreau]
 * [|George Ripley]
 * [|Dorothea Dix]
 * [|Horace Mann]
 * [|Prudence Crandall]
 * [|William Lloyd Garrison]
 * [|Frederick Douglass]
 * [|The Grimke Sisters] ( [|Angelina] & [|Sarah] )
 * [|Lucretia Mott]
 * [|Elizabeth Cady Stanton]
 * [|Elizabeth Blackwell]
 * [|Susan B. Anthony]
 * [|Charlotte Woodward]
 * [|Lucy Stone]

__**More Information on Reformers**__
 * [|Sojourner Truth]
 * [|Ralph Waldo Emerson]
 * Henry David Thoreau
 * George Ripley
 * [|Dorothea Dix]
 * Horace Mann
 * Prudence Crandall
 * William Lloyd Garrison
 * [|Frederick Douglass]
 * The Grimke Sisters
 * [|Lucretia Mott]
 * [|Elizabeth Cady Stanton]
 * Elizabeth Blackwell
 * [|Susan B. Anthony]
 * Charlotte Woodward
 * Lucy Stone

__**Reform Movements**__
 * Spiritual: Second Great Awakening & Transcendentalism
 * Mentally Ill & Prisons
 * Education
 * [|Abolition]
 * Women's Rights

__**Other Resources**__ //Below are some other resources you may choose to use for your research and to complete the assignment.//
 * Assessment**: [[file:Era of Reform Assessment.pdf]]

//Below are just a few (not all) key words that you may try when doing your internet research.//
 * Useful search keywords (by movement):**
 * 1) For all Movements: Reform, Reform in (Mid-1800s, 19th century, Pre Civil War, Antebellum US, US)
 * 2) Spirituality: Second Great Awakening, transcendentalism, model communities, utopias
 * 3) Prisoners and Mentally Ill: Jails, asylums, mental institutions, treatment of prisoners/mentally ill
 * 4) Education: schools, public education
 * 5) Abolition: slavery, abolitionists, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment
 * 6) Women's Rights: Suffrage, Seneca Falls, Declaration of Sentiments, Women's right to vote

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 * Other useful sites:**
 * http://www.history.com/
 * http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/precivilwar/index.cfm
 * http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/units/8/
 * http://www.biography.com/
 * http://curriculum.kcdistancelearning.com/courses/AMHISTx-HS-A08/a/unit3/html/section_5_page_1.html
 * http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portrait_thumbs.html
 * http://www.americaslibrary.gov/