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DBQ Practice
Reform
• “Reform movements in the US sought to expand democratic ideals.” Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to the years 1825-1850.
Key Words
• Reform Movements• Democratic ideals • Time frame
Brainstorm
• Political changes – democracy • Economic changes – market economy • New social relationships – Anxiety • MOVEMENTS: consider all possible options• Key people
Thesis Statements
• Write TWO
Organizing Ideas
• Strategy for attacking your essay • Graphic organizer
Write your first paragraph
2002 DBQ
• Must Use documents and outside information• Divide Documents in the triad: – Author – Main Idea– Significance – Inference
Doc A
• Prison – prevention differentiated• Reform – moral & religious objectives • Environmental influences • Education as tool for reform
Doc B
• FINNEY – author associated w/2GA• Impact of 2GW • Free will, equality, salvation • Emphasis on emotion• Personal Christianity • Ideas about “sinners”
Doc C
• Slaves have rights – brutality of slavery• Family ties • Ties women’s rights and abolition – both
slaves and women are “chained” • Contradiction of D of I and rights of minorities
Doc D
• Morse – telegraph• Immigration as a threat –new immigrants• NATIVISM• Anti Catholic • Conspiracy • Limit the political rights of immigrants
Doc E
• Education as source of moral reform • Middle class values – hard work, etc • Education as method of self improvement and
stability of the social order • Accept growing inequalities created by the
market revolution • Order and contentment w/ place – needed in
democratic society • Public education
Doc F
• Brook Farm – transcendentalism • Utopian reform • Emphasis on community and cooperation –
contrast with competition of new market economy
• Reaction against the changes created by the market economy
Doc G
• Contrast w/ Brook Farm • Critical of utopian communities • Reform as a threat to existing democratic
social order• Critical of efforts to change society • Reformers ignore accomplishments of the past• Keep social order as it exists
Doc H
• Temperance• Drinking as a threat to social order • Dilemma for males • Threat to family • Reminds of needs of the market economy –
sobriety and of MC values – family • Reminds of Cult of Domesticity and Doctrine
of Two Spheres
Doc I
• Women’s Rights grounded in the D of I – democratic values
• Legal reform • Challenges to the existing social order
OUTSIDE INFO• Key “stuff” is intentionally left out – so you have some
outside info to add – thus pay attention to what IS NOT given in documents
• NO QUOTES when you incorporate documents may cite information by simple parenthetical EX.
• Charles Finney changes traditional Calvinist belief by his emphasis on free will and use of emotion (B), but this raised concerns from some like Beecher that he’s gone to far.
• Finney made salvation accessible to ALL – the ultimate in democratic ideas – that ONE was responsible and capable of change (B).