Oklahoma Social Studies USH.C.2.2.B
The Standard
- USH.C.2
- Analyze the social, economic, and political changes that occurred during the American Industrial Revolution, the Gilded Age, and reform movements.
- USH.C.2.2
- Evaluate the efforts of major reform movements in addressing social issues.
Explain how the Social Gospel movement emphasized the application of Christian principles of social justice to societal problems, such as poverty, inequality, and injustice.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · USH.C.2.2
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain why some Protestant reformers saw poverty and unsafe work as problems communities should address. They connect beliefs about caring for neighbors to actions such as food aid and campaigns for safer housing.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how a church soup kitchen addressed hunger and how a housing campaign addressed unsafe tenements. They can explain why reformers sought changes beyond individual charity.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think the movement was only about preaching or handing out food. Others assume all Christians supported the same reforms, or that reformers blamed poverty only on personal choices.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A church opens a soup kitchen and asks city leaders to enforce housing safety rules. What Christian belief might motivate both actions, and what problem does each address?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards naming beliefs, city problems, and church actions; have them build and explain two matching sets.
Ask students to write: Why might a reformer serve meals and also press for safer housing?
Play a one-minute round: show a tenement or factory problem card, then have teams propose a church-led response.
Give students a sample food pantry flyer and housing inspection notice; ask which offers immediate aid and which changes conditions.
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Related Standards
- S.5
Analyze social problems that affect large numbers of people within a social system.
- MWH.C.2.3
Summarize the causes of and influence of the theological movements of the Reformation and how those movements subsequently transformed society.
- S.5.2
Describe how social movements can influence and change society.
- USH.C.2.2
Evaluate the efforts of major reform movements in addressing social issues.
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