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CHAPTER 18: AN ERA OF REFORM

CHAPTER 18: AN ERA OF REFORM. PRISON REFORM: CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM. Jail inmates were in chains & lived in cages. Children were in jail with adult prisoners. Mentally ill were treated as criminals. Insufficient mental hospitals. PRISON REFORM: CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM.

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CHAPTER 18: AN ERA OF REFORM

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  1. CHAPTER 18: AN ERA OF REFORM

  2. PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM Jail inmates were in chains & lived in cages. Children were in jail with adult prisoners. Mentally ill were treated as criminals. Insufficient mental hospitals.

  3. PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM

  4. PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM

  5. PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM

  6. PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM

  7. PRISON REFORM:REFORM LEADER Dorothea Dix

  8. PRISON REFORM:REFORMS New asylums State governments stopped placing debtors in prison. Special justice systems for children Cruel punishments outlawed

  9. EDUCATION REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM Few areas had public schools. Schoolrooms were overcrowded. Teachers had limited education & received little pay. Most children didn’t go to school.

  10. EDUCATION REFORM:REFORM LEADER Horace Mann

  11. EDUCATION REFORM:REFORMS New York set up public elementary schools. Massachusetts voted to pay taxes to build better schools, pay teachers higher salaries, & establish training schools for teachers. By 1850, most white boys attended free public schools. Public universities accepted women.

  12. ABOLITIONISM:GOAL OF THE MOVEMENT to abolish slavery

  13. ABOLITIONISM:LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Angelina & Sarah Grimke Sojourner Truth

  14. WOMEN’S RIGHTS:CONDITIONS BEFORE THE MOVEMENT Women could not vote or hold office. Fathers/husbands controlled women’s money & property. Husbands could physically discipline their wives.

  15. WOMEN’S RIGHTS:LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucy Stone

  16. SENECA FALLS:GRIEVANCES Man did not let woman vote. He did not give her property, rights, even to her own wages. He did not allow her to practice professions like medicine & law.

  17. SENECA FALLS:ADVANCES ACHIEVED New York gave women control over property & wages. Massachusetts & Indiana passed more liberal divorce laws. Elizabeth Blackwell started her own hospital. Women eventually were given the right to vote.

  18. Women’s Grievances He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.

  19. Women’s Grievances He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.

  20. Women’s Grievances He has so framed the laws of divorce, and to whom guardianship of the children shall be given, in all cases, puts all power into his hands.

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