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Explore crucial reform movements in the early 1800s, from temperance to prison reform, affecting societal values and paving the way for women's rights activism.
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Essential Question • What were the important reform movements of the early 1800s?
Second Great Awakening • Revivals • Preachers motivated listeners to become socially active
Benevolent Societies • Preached Christian values • Tried to help solve social problems
Temperance Societies • Widespread alcoholism • Temperance = against consumption of alcohol
American Temperance Union • Groups that pushed for laws to prohibit the sale of alcohol
Prison Reform • Cleaner and safer facilities • Emphasis on rehabilitation • Criminals can become good citizens
Dorothea Dix • Prison reform • Special institutions for the mentally ill
Educational Reform • Public education – government should fund schools open to all citizens • Horace Mann
Quote, Horace Mann “The establishment of a republican government, without well-appointed and efficient means for the universal education of the people, is the most rash and foolhardy experiment ever tried by man . . . Woe to the republic that rests upon no better foundations than ignorance, selfishness and passion!”
Education for Women • Emma Willard – girls’ boarding school in Vermont • Mary Lyon – Mount Holyoke (first college for women)
Elizabeth Blackwell • First woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S.
Women’s Rights Idea that women have an important role to play in society
Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Organized movement for women’s suffrage
Susan B. Anthony • Leader in the women’s suffrage movement
Seneca Falls Convention • Beginning of an organized women’s movement