Reform Movements In the Age
Of Jackson
(A Historical Simulation)
Questions for your consideration
when doing your research:
- What criticisms of American Society did the individual or group have, and what goals did they hope to achieve?
- What methods did the person of group use to improve American live (Examples are necessary)
- What successes did the individual or group have in promoting reform?
- To what extent were the goals and methods used by the individual or group practical in this period of time?
- What lasting impact did the reforms proposed by the individual or group have on American society
(students choose one
of the following historical figures and research their character so that they can answer the requisite questions)
Reform
Movements In the Age Of Jackson
Temperance
Lyman Beecher
Neal Dow
Treatment of the Mentally
Ill
Dorothea Dix
Women’s Rights
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Abolitionists
Grimke Sisters (Angela and Sarah)
William Lloyd Garrison
Theodore Weld
Frederick Douglass
Educational Reform
Horace Mann
Emma Willard
Mary Lyon
Utopian Socialism
The Shakers (Mother Ann Lee)
Robert Owens
(The following is the letter
I sent home to the students)
The White
House
Office Of The President of the United States
December 22, 1835
Dear
It has come to my attention that you have made
an inquiry concerning plans for spending the current United States
budget surplus. Please plan to attend a Reformers’ Convocation at the White House on January 6, and inform me of some or all of the following items:
a) Reform movement of which you
are a proponent
b) Your relationship
to the movement, your occupational background, the state in which you live
c) Goals of your
movement
d) What you have
accomplished thus far in pursuit of the movement’s goals
e) Ways in which
you think that the federal government, specifically the president, can advance the goals of your movement (i.e. money, support,
proposing legislation, preventing harassment, etc).
Because of my busy
schedule and since there are many like yourself who want an audience with
me, please plan to limit your remarks to five minutes. Be prepared to answer questions that will be posed to you. A personal
resume with at least three references and this letter will gain you admittance to the convocation.
Respectfully,
Andrew Jackson
President of the United States
