Indian Boarding Schools: Civilizing the Native Spirit
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/indianschools/

WEB LESSON Through photographs, letters, reports, interviews, and other primary documents, students explore the forced acculturation of American Indians through government-run boarding schools. MS-HS

ID: 28. Added: 2011-09-24 20:56:33

Conflict Over Western Land
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/midlit10.soc.splland/

WEB LESSON This Teachers' Domain media-rich activity is designed to enhance literacy skills and guide students to explore the differing worldviews of white settlers and Native Americans. Students then analyze how this difference impacted Native-settler interactions and led to conflicts when Euro-Americans surged further and further westward. Requires free registration. MS-HS

ID: 131. Added: 2011-11-14 21:35:40

Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
http://hti.osu.edu/history-lesson-plans/united-states-history/manifest-destiny-westward-expansion

WEB LESSON In the 1840s the territory of the United States increased by nearly eight hundred million acres through the annexation of Texas, the acquisition of Oregon south of the forty-ninth parallel, the military conquest of California and New Mexico, and the assumption of Native American lands in the Great Lakes region as those tribes were forced to resettle on the Great Plains. Americans justified the expansion with the ideology of "Manifest Destiny," invoking divine providence, national superiority, and American exceptionalism. This lesson looks at ways that the ideology of Manifest Destiny expressed both national political objectives and the goals of ordinary men and women who settled the west. MS-HS

ID: 132. Added: 2011-11-14 21:42:28

Roman Catholics and Immigration in Nineteenth-Century America
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/nromcath.htm

DISCUSSION GUIDE This National Humanities Center Divining America Project article and discussion guide for teachers looks at the Catholic experience in 19th century America from both the immigrant and the Nativist perspectives. It describes both the reasoning and the fears of people that resulted in significant conflict between Protestants and Catholics and within the Catholic community itself throughout the first part of the 19th c. MS-HS

ID: 133. Added: 2011-11-14 21:44:13

Age of Reform
http://hti.osu.edu/history-lesson-plans/united-states-history/age-of-reform

WEB LESSON The reform movements that swept through American society after 1820 were reactions to a range of factors: the Second Great Awakening, the transformation of the American economy, industrialization, urbanization, and lingering agendas of the revolutionary period. As a way of introducing students to the variety of reform movements, this Ohio State University lesson looks at two reform movements; anti-slavery and women's rights. In addition to learning about the beliefs and motivations of each group, students seek the cultural/religious connections among the various reform impulses. MS-HS

ID: 134. Added: 2011-11-14 21:46:35

Witnesses and Testimony at the Trial of John Brown
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/witnesses-and-testimony-trial-john-brown

RESOURCES & LESSON IDEA. This description of the trial of John Brown using primary sources gives a valuable understanding of the religious motives of Mr Brown in raiding Harpers' Ferry. This would be a great tool for a moot court activity.

ID: 290. Added: 2012-02-10 17:39:59

Matters of the Latter Day: Ideas for Addressing Mormonism in the Classroom
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/matters-of-the-latter-day-ideas-for-addressing-mormonism-in-the-classroom-2/?_r=0

WEB LESSON This Learning Network New York Times Education Network page discusses and provides resources for teaching about Mormonism in a public school classroom. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the second fastest growing religion in the United States and expanding rapidly worldwide. Yet, despite the recent surge in media interest, Mormonism remains one of the least understood and most debated religions in the United States. Because issues of personal faith and religious identity may be too sensitive to address in the classroom, this page offers five ways to examine Mormonism in broader cultural, historical and political contexts.

ID: 576. Added: 2013-06-21 00:59:39

Religion and Social Reform
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=11&psid=3842

PRIMARY SOURCE WEB ACTIVITY This primary source activity asks students to address the question of the relative role of religion and secular thinking in the 19th century wave of social reform in the US. More than a dozen primary source excerpts are provided along with writing/discussion prompts.

ID: 657. Added: 2013-12-12 00:44:06

Second Great Awakening and the Age of Reform
http://www.teachushistory.org/second-great-awakening-age-reform

WEB LESSON This National Endowment for the Humanities lesson builds the connection between religion and social reform in the 19 & 20th centuries. A religious revival called the Second Great Awakening resulted in thousands of conversions to evangelical religions. In addition to a religious movement, other reform movements such as temperance, abolition, and women's rights also grew in antebellum America. The temperance movement encouraged people to abstain from consuming alcoholic drinks in order to preserve family order. The abolition movement fought to abolish slavery in the U.S. The women's rights movement grew from female abolitionists who realized that they too could fight for their own political rights. In addition to these causes, reforms touched nearly every aspect of daily life, such as restricting the use of tobacco and dietary and dress reforms.

ID: 808. Added: 2016-05-05 14:34:37

The Second Great Awakening and Reform in the 19th Century
http://www.crf-usa.org/images/pdf/members/bria_32_2wb.pdf

WEB RESOURCE & LESSON Scroll to the second article. This Bill of Rights in Action article and lesson by CRF explores the Protestant revival in America during the first half of the 19th c. called the Second Great Awakening. It emphasizes its impact on social reform. After reading the article, students use the information to address problems in society and how to solve them. 8-12

ID: 849. Added: 2017-07-08 16:18:39

The Mormons - Teachers Guide
http://www.pbs.org/mormons/tguide/

CLASSROOM RESOURCES The Mormons videos relate to history, religion, civic ideas and geography of the US. These materials support each of these areas and relate to the The Mormons American Experience videos that are on YouTube. The Mormons - Part I video can be accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N8D8KD5NWo The Mormons - Part II video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thp-4Tf-EgI

ID: 875. Added: 2017-07-18 12:13:05

Religious Roots of Abolition
http://americainclass.org/the-religious-roots-of-abolition/

WEB LESSON How did American Christians in the nineteenth century come to see slavery as something that needed to be abolished? Christianity was a central feature of nineteenth century American life for both slaveholders and anti-slavery activists. To argue persuasively against slavery, abolitionists had to find ways to use the Bible and Christian tradition, along with American patriotic and domestic ideals, to make their case. Using close reading students examine short passages from Angelina Grimke's arguments that ultimately brought most northerners to the opinion that slavery had to be ended. They focus on her rhetorical strategies and how she used them to persuade people of the rightness of her position. What feelings does she appeal to? What ideas and passages of the Bible or other documents does she think will make her case? MS HS

ID: 902. Added: 2018-08-13 19:36:42

How did the cult of domesticity oppress and empower women in the nineteenth century?
http://americainclass.org/the-cult-of-domesticity/

WEB LESSON In each of the passages presented here, at least two of the four principles of the cult of domesticity (piety, purity, submissiveness, domesticity) are illustrated, either positively or negatively, and these illustrations can be compared and contrasted. What is the role of religion in the cult of domesticity? MS-HS National Council for Mumanities

ID: 944. Added: 2019-07-05 20:43:40

In 1844, Nativist Protestants Burned Churches in the Name of Religious Liberty
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/180388

WEB RESOURCE This article by Dr. Zachary Schrag, Professor of History at George Mason University, discusses the manner in which many Americans related to the First Amendment freedom of religion clauses, especially in 19th c. This would be a good background piece to build a context for how people in American history have applied the First Amendment.

ID: 998. Added: 2021-06-07 11:48:03