Reforming American Society Bell Ringer: What is reform? How did individuals work to reform American society in the 1800s? How would you reform American society today? Vocabulary to know: Social Reform Temperance Movement Transcendentalist Suffrage Civil Disobedience
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Reforming American SocietyBell Ringer:
What is reform? How did individuals work to reform
American society in the 1800s? How would you reform American society
today?
Vocabulary to know: Social Reform Temperance Movement Transcendentalist Suffrage Civil Disobedience
Bell Ringer
Which reformer do you find was the most influential and why?
Besides slavery, what was in need of the most reform and why?
Social Reform-An organized attempt to improve what is unjust or imperfect in society.
Dorothea Dix:Boston schoolteacher.Tried to improve
society’s care for its weakest members.
Witnessed the mentally ill not receiving treatment and living in terrible conditions.
Would travel the U.S. on behalf of the mentally ill.