Reforming American Society

1. Reforming American Society • Efforts to Make America a Better nation, • 1800 - 1850

2. Reforming American Society http://www.historytunes.com/images/synopsis/15.jpg http://english8.fsu.edu/jcg07g/voteswomen.jpg Reform - To change something, to try to make it better

3. Slavery & Abolition Abolition - The call to outlaw [abolish] slavery in America Goal: an immediate end to slavery. Enslaved persons emancipated [set free], with no payments to the slave owners Started an ant-slavery newspaper called “The Liberator” Founder - “American Anti-Slavery Society” William Lloyd Garrison Abolitionist

4. Frederick Douglass Douglass was an escaped slave that supported Garrison and The Liberator He often spoke at meetings held by the American Anti-Slavery Society Would publish his own anti-slavery newspaper, “The North Star” Douglass published his paper in Rochester, NY. He is buried in that city

5. Temperance Movement Americans in the 1800s drank an excessive amount of alcohol 1830 - consumption of alcohol reached its all-time high: 3.9 gallons per person American Temperance Society was formed in 1826. It was dedicated to total abstinence http://connecticuthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/TemperanceConvention-e1316806174207-631x1024.jpg

6. Rights for Women For much of America’s early history, women were “second-class citizens” For much of America’s early history, women were “second-class citizens” http://declaringamerica.com/01/media/WesleyanChapel-600x400.jpg What remains of Wesleyan Chapel, site of 1848 convention The Women’s Rights Movement began with a convention in Seneca Falls, NY July 19 - 20, 1848

7. Declaration of Sentiments “We hold these rights to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness . . . http://www.womensrightsfriends.org/images/1848_declaration_of_sentiments.png

8. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Stanton and her husband had been active in the abolition movement Stanton was one of the main organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention She spent the rest of her life fighting to help women gain equality. She died in 1902 hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu Stanton, circa 1856