From Moral Persuasion to State Coercion: The Maine Laws and New Jersey

Antebellum Reform: Temperance, Education, and Asylums

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Compare the effectiveness of voluntary pledges with legal prohibition laws like the Maine Law, assessing reactions in New Jersey and neighboring states.

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Antebellum Reform: Temperance, Education, and Asylums

9th Grade · Social Studies · US-NJ-SS

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Evaluate the religious, social, and political origins, strategies, successes, and setbacks of moral and social reform movements across New Jersey and the nation.

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6.1.12.CivicsDP.3.aNew Jersey Social Studies Standards · 6th Grade

Compare and contrast the successes and failures of political and social reform movements in New Jersey and the nation during the Antebellum period (i.e., the 1844 State Constitution, abolition, women’s rights, and temperance).