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).