American History: Social Reform Movements

Use online videos to study the history of social reform in America. Use the video subtitles to improve Reading and Literacy skills .... simultaneously!

Use these U.S. History videos on Social Reform Movements in America to explore the history of social reform in America, with a special focus on the Abolitionist movement, the Progressive movement, and the New Deal.

Use these 4 online educational video titles to learn how a society addresses the need for massive social change. These video presentations survey reform movements in America, showing how they emerged from an ever-changing national conscience. Explore the crusade to end slavery in the 1800s...the activism of the Progressive Era, when reformers worked to stop the abuses of big business and industry...the unionism and welfare reforms of the 1930's.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore the history of social reform in America, with a special focus on the Abolitionist movement, the Progressive movement, and the New Deal.
• Gain insight to the social changes brought about by the mid-nineteenth-century crusade to end slavery; the activism of the late nineteenth century, when reformers worked to end the abuses of big business and industry; and the unionism and welfare reforms of the 1930's.
• Explain the meaning and implications of a national conscience, and consider the role played by religion, the ideals of the Enlightenment, and the perception of the United States as a land of opportunity in the development of America's national conscience and the American passion for social reform.

• History > American History > Social Reform Movements
• The Reform Tradition in America (Runtime: 16:15)
• The Reform Crusade 1830-1860 (Runtime: 17:32)
• The Progressive Era (Runtime: 18:14)
• The 1930s (Runtime: 15:19)