We extended our conversation over the period before the Civil War today to take a look at the various reform movements in the United States as well as the movements which energized those reforms: Transcendentalism and the Second Great Awakening. Today was a DocBlock heavy day as we first analyzed and discussed "Sinners Bound to Change their Own Hearts" by Charles G. Finney, comparing it to the earlier text from Jonathan Edwards. At the other end of the class, we did our first DocBlock Lit Circle, this on examining four different reform movements through the lens of primary sources. You can find these documents under Period 4 (Angelina Grimke, John Quincy Adams, Letter from a fugitive slave, and complaint of the Lowell factory worker).
Tomorrow is you first scored discussion, this on one the extent of democracy during Jacksonian Democracy, so make sure you are prepared!