BIG IDEAS:
Government & Society:
The American political system became more democratic during the Jacksonian Era.
Group Action:
The Second Great Awakening increased membership in many religious groups in the United States.
Past & Present:
Reform movements sought to change American society in ways that upheld American values and ideals.
Individual Action:
Abolitionists challenged the morality and legality of slavery in the United States.
 

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS (SWBATA):
How did democracy expand in the United States during the Jacksonian era?
What contributed to the changes in American culture during the first half of the nineteenth century?
What were some of the main areas of society targeted for reform in the first half of the 1800s?
What were the effects of the abolitionist movement on the relationship between the North and South?
 

People and Places
Tariff of Abominations, Daniel Webster, Force Bill, Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, Panic of 1837, Know-Nothings, Second Great Awakening, Charles Grandison Finney, Joseph Smith, Dorothea Dix, Lyman Beecher, Horace Mann, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention, American Colonization Society, William Lloyd Garrison, American Anti-Slavery Society, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth