Ideas+for+Discussion+-+The+Age+of+Reform,+1830-1850

z1. How did economic and social changes after the War of 1812 fuel the reforms of the 1830s? 2. How did religious developments promote the reforms of the 1830s? 3. How did the Market Revolution give rise to the developments of utopian societies in the 1830s and 1840s? 4. Why did the Jacksonians oppose many of the reforms of the 1830s? 5. Why was the “burned-over district” so involved in the reforms of the period? 6. Was Garrison a positive or negative force in ending slavery in America? 7. Did the American Colonization Society hurt the abolitionist crusade? Explain why or why not? 8. What was the attitude of most Americans toward the abolitionist movement? 9. In what ways were the temperance reformers both progressive and repressive in their ideology and tactics? 10. Why were women unable to make significant improvement in their position in society before the Civil War?