• textbook --> pp. 396 - 402.
• AMSCO --> p. 207.

1. What does the term "benevolent empire" mean?  Explain its organization during the early 19c.
2. What was the Sabbatarian movement?  Assess the degree of success the movement had in improving its agenda on American society.
3. Explain the origins of the temperance movement.  How did evangelicals use the American Temperance Society to nationalize the movement?
4. Describe the nature of American drinking habits in the early 19c.  What role did middle class women play in the temperance movement?
5. Why did the business community support the temperance movement?  Which group in American society was least supportive?  Why?

                          ASSIGNMENT 2:

• textbook --> pp. 402 - 410.
• AMSCO --> pp. 204 - 206 [doc. A on p. 216 & doc. C on p. 218].
• VCR film --> "The Hudson River School."

1. What were the problems facing public education?  What types of institutions were created to deal with these problems?
2. How did efforts to produce a system of universal public education reflect the spirit of this age of reform?
3. Why did New England play such a significant role in the school reform movement?  What was Horace Mann's role in this movement?
4. What was the role of northern middle class women in early 19c American public education?
5. What was the view of 18c Americans concerning crime, poverty, and deviance?  How did that view change in the early 19c?
6. How did this change of attitude impact ideas on prison, work house, and asylum reform during the first half of the 19c?
7. What is utopian socialism?  How did these socialists propose to reorder society to create a better way of life? [give examples of specific utopian socialists and their ideas].
8. How did the utopian communities attempt to redefine the sex roles?  Which communities were most effective in this effort?
9. What is transcendentalism?  How was it a reflection of the European Romantic movement?
10. How did the transcendentalists attempt to apply their beliefs to the problems of everyday life at Brook Farm?  What was the result?
11. How was Walt Whitman called the "poet of American democracy?"
12. How was the work of James Fenimore Cooper the culmination of an effort to produce a truly American literature?
13. How were Hawthorne and Melville less optimistic in their writing than the other transcendentalist authors of the time?
14. List the major characteristics of the early 19c artistic movement known as the Hudson River School.  How was it reflective of the European Romantic movement in general?  How was it uniquely American?
15. Identify and distinguish between the two types of women's reform movements that emerged in the United States during the first half of the 19c.

                         ASSIGNMENT 3:

• textbook --> pp. 410 - 420. [esp. doc. on pp. 414-15].
• AMSCO --> pp. 209 - 211. [doc. B on p. 217].

1. Identify and distinguish between the three types of antislavery reform that emerged in the United States during the 19c.  Create a CHART which shows examples of groups or organizations that reflected each of the three types.
2. Who was David Walker?  What was the response of free African Americans to gradualism and colonization as methods of dealing with the institution of slavery?
3. What was the antislavery philosophy of William Lloyd Garrison?  How did he transform abolitionism into a new and dramatically different movement?
4. Why did many northern whites oppose the abolitionist movement?  How did they show that opposition?
5. What was the unique role of the Grimké sisters in the abolitionist movement?
6. How did feminists benefit from their association with other reform movements, especially the abolitionists, and at the same time suffer as a result of those associations?
7. What is the historical significance of the Seneca Falls Convention and its adoption of the Declaration of Sentiments?
8. What was the impact of antislavery reform on American national politics in the 1840s?  Assess the performance of the Liberty Party in the 1840 and 1844 presidential elections.
9. Who was Frederick Douglass?  What was his role in the abolitionist movement?  Why did he eventually break with William Lloyd Garrison?
10. Define the term "The Slave Power" and explain its use in broadening northern support for abolition in the 1840s.