Lesson on Thursday, February 1, 2018

Aim: How did the changes wrought by industrialization shape Americans' identities, beliefs, and culture? 

Bell Ringer: Review Journal 94 / A: The Comstock Act reflected the anxiety felt by many Americans regarding the sexual practices of young and urban residents. However, the act contradicted the reality of urban life in the industrial era wherein many couples freely engaged in sexual activities regardless of access to contraceptives. (5 min)

Agenda:

1. Discuss "Nature Transformed" assignment. (5 min)

2. Comstock Act: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MK68_Jl97s (8 min)

Education

2. Journal 95 - How did educational opportunities change after the Civil War, and for whom? (10 min)

Temperance Movem3ent

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08_Ho_pkUVA (6 min)

4. Journal 96 - How did women use widespread beliefs about their "special role" to justify political activism, and for what goals? (10 min)

*The temperance movement was a legacy of the transcendentalists of the early nineteenth century, who also denounced alcohol.

TEMPERANCE = PROHIBITION

A: Women used their role as mothers to justify their increased political activity. Under the banner of maternalism, women worked to achieve the vote, to stop child labor, to stop prostitution, to stop alcohol consumption, to achieve racial equality, to increase American patriotism, to increase southern pride and national recognition of the Confederacy in the South, to assist downfallen women, and to help non-Christians through overseas missionary societies.

*COLLECT CHAPTER 18 IDs (or...)

Terms to know: Plessy v. Ferguson, Young Men's Christian Association, Negro Leagues, National Park Service, maternalism, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, National Association of Colored Women, National American Woman Suffrage Association, feminism, natural selection, Social Darwinism, eugenics, realism, naturalism, modernism, fundamentalism. 

Home Learning:

1. Journal 97 - How did the idea of scientists and social scientists reflect events they saw happening around them? 

2. Read Chapter 18, pages 592-603

3. Chapter 18 IDs, due Tuesday, February 6, 2018

4. Vocabulary Quiz on Tuesday, February 6, 2018

4. Thinking Like a Historian 18, due Tuesday, February 6, 2018

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