• Antebellum Reformers Recruiting Fair 

    Research Guide

    Purpose: To learn about the variety of reform movements which were popular and which helped to change the U.S. in the antebellum (pre-Civil War) years, roughly 1830-1850, and to teach each other.


    What will be done: Each group of THREE will do outside research on a reform movement and some influential reformers of the movement.  Much like a career or college fair, this will be an antebellum reformers recruiting fair.  Recruiters will set up a “booth” and classmates will walk about the room to look, listen and decide what reform movement they might be interested in participating in. 

    Use the following databases to conduct your research. 

    All topics:

    Gale in Context: High School  

    Gale eBooks

    Gale in Context: Biography

    Gale Literature Resource Center - Best for Transcendentalists Research