An Era of Reform

CH 6.3 and 6.4

Reforming Social Institutions

• Dorothea Dix– Prison Reform– Establishment of Mental Institutions

• Lyman Beecher– Citizens, not the Government should reform

society.• Benevolent Society– First form of Welfare– Spread the word of God, Worked on Social Issues

Temperance Movement

• Alcohol the root cause of all social problems• Temperance: Moderation in consumption• American Temperance Union• Main 1851 1st state to prohibit the sale of

Alcohol.

Prison Reform

• Horrible Prison Conditions• Rehabilitate Rather than locking them up.• Penitentaries: New prison who’s purpose was

to rehabilitate

Educational Reform

• Electoral needs to be educated for republic to survive

• Horace Mann: leader of the Public Education movement– State Board of Ed. Massachusetts.

Education for Women

• Education still reserved for men• Emma Willard Girls school in Vermont• Mary Lyon, Female Seminary in Mass.

Women Seek Greater Rights

• “True Womanhood”• Margaret Fuller: equal treatment of men and

women ends social injustice• Seneca Falls Convention– Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott– Anti-Slavery– “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions– Women should Focus on Gaining the Right to Vote

Abolitionist Movement

• Movement to End Slavery in the US• Pitted North against the South

How to end slavery?

• Gradualism– Slavery had to be ended

gradually– Slave holders

compensated for their losses

– South’s Economy have time to recover

• Colonization– Send Africans back to

Africa– America Colonization

Society.

Abolition

• Enslaved Africans Freed Immediately• No gradual measures, no compensation

William Lloyd Garrison

• Liberator – Boston Anti Slavery Newspaper• Attacked constitution for not condemning

slavery.• “The Time for moderation is over!”• American Anti-Slavery Society– Grew to 250,000 Members

Other Abolitionists

• Women Activists– Prudence Crandall– Lucretia Mott

• African American Activists– Fredrick Douglas

• North Star• Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass

– Sojourner Truth• Former Slave• Grew Huge Crowds when Speaking

Reactions to the Abolitionist Movement

North• Some backlash against

abolition.• Afraid of….

– War with South– Immigration of freed slaves to

the North

South• “Peculiar Institution”• Defended Slavery

– A Slave Receives• Housing• Food• Religion

• Blamed Abolitionist papers for Slave revolts– Nat Turner

Home Work

• Vocabulary– Gradualism– Abolition– Emancipation– American Colonization

Society– William Lloyd Garrison– Fredrick Douglass– Sojourner Truth

• North Carolina End of Corse Test Practice P. 249 1-19

• Quiz Tomorrow• All Vocab for this week

due tomorrow.• Test moved to Next

Friday, Note books will be checked and graded at that time.