Reformer's+Convocation+-+SP12


 * REFORMERS CONVOCATION**
 * BACKGROUND INFORMATION**
 * Date - December 22, 1835**
 * Location - White House**
 * President Andrew Jackson**

**[|RESOURCES AND PRIMARY DOCUMENTS]** **RESEARCH INFORMATION**As you conduct your research and locate information about your individual or group, be sure you are able to do the following:
 * Describe the criticisms of American society the individual or group made and what goals they hoped to achieve.
 * Explain the methods the person or group used to improve American life. Be sure to provide examples.
 * Evaluate the successes the individual or group had in promoting the reform.
 * Discuss the intent to which the goals and methods used by the individual or group were practical in this time period.
 * Determine ways in which you think that the federal government, specifically the president, could advance the goals of your movement (i.e. money, government support, proposing legislation, preventing harassment)
 * ***AFTER THE DEBATE*** Discuss the lasting impact the reforms proposed by your individual or group had on American society.

**RESUME WIKI INFORMATION**Your resume should cover the most important time period of your individual's life (Approximately a 30 - 40 year time span). You can determine that time period, but it should...
 * 1) ...end when and if your goals have been accomplished;
 * 2) ...end when you die; and/or
 * 3) ...the heyday of your movement.

In no case should your resume cover a period of more than 40 years or extend beyond the Civil War. Your resume should end by the early 1850s at the absolute latest. Also, please include 2 references that could support your efforts as a reformer. Please include a brief 3 - 5 sentence synopsis as to your relationship to them. Please use at least 2 research sources (formatted correctly) to describe your individual. Neither the textbook or traditional encyclopedias may be used as cited sources. **QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED and ANSWERED**Each person must prepare two questions to be asked of members of other groups. Place each question on the front of a separate index card and write your name and the name of your reformer on the back. When you have decided to whom to pose your question, write that reformer's name on the front of the card with the question. Twenty percent of your grade will be determined by the quality of the questions that you ask and the quality of the answers you give when asked a question by another reformer. Cards will be collected. The questions should be questions that might be asked by a person of your occupational background of reformer group and should relate to your area of interest or expertise. You will be expected to intelligently answer questions posed by other reformers. I AM FULLY AWARE THAT SOME OF THESE REFORMERS WERE DEAD BY 1835, WHILE OTHERS HAD NOT YET LEFT THEIR MARKS ON SOCIETY. WE WILL TAKE SOME POETIC LICENSE. YOU CAN MENTION THIS FACT WHEN YOU MADE YOUR PRESENTATION, BUT DON'T DWELL ON IT.


 * = Reformer ||  ||
 * = Amelia Bloomer || MaryJo H. ||
 * = Father Theobald Matthew || Noah R. ||
 * = Elijah Lovejoy || Emma H. ||
 * = Lyman Beecher ||  ||
 * = Frederick Douglass || Nidhi A. ||
 * = The Shakers (Mother Ann Lee) || Jenna N. ||
 * = Susan B. Anthony || Ellie S. ||
 * = George Ripley (Brook Farm and transcendentalism) ||  ||
 * = Doctor Sylvester Graham || Dan H. ||
 * = Dorothea Dix || Kaitlyn W. ||
 * = Sojourner Truth || Shandelle S. ||
 * = Horace Mann || Chris G. ||
 * = Joseph Smith ||  ||
 * = Elizabeth Cady Stanton || Courtney C. ||
 * = Nat Turner || Faith T. ||