UP:SS10.US1.11

Vocabulary

  • reform
  • culture
  • impact

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The impact of American social and political reform on the emergence of a distinct American culture.
  • The impact of the Second Great Awakening on the emergence of a national identity.
  • Emergence of uniquely American writers including James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, and Edgar Allen Poe.
  • The influence of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Dorothea Lynde Dix, and Susan B. Anthony.
  • The development of social reform movements prior to the Civil War.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Evaluate the impact of American social and political reform.
  • Discuss the emergence of a distinct culture including the advantages, disadvantages, limitations, etc.
  • Compare the impact of the Second Great Awakening and other reform movements on the emergence of a national identity.
  • Describe the emergence of uniquely American writers.
  • Describe the influence of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Dorothea Lynde Dix, and Susan B. Anthony on American society.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There were social and political reforms before the Civil War that impacted, individually and collectively, the American social and political development from the time period and into modern times.
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