REFORM of EARLY 19th Century

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REFORM of EARLY 19th Century
EDUCATION
RELIGION
PRISONS

• Increasing Democracy in America

SUFFRAGE
UTOPIAS
ABOLITIONISM
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RELIGION

• The Second Great Awakening
• Americans movement to re-admit God into their
  daily lives.
• Tent revivals
• Charles Finney
• Shakers

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Education

• Needed to protect the republic-needed educated
  populace
• Horace Mann- pushed in Mass for free public
  education

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Prison Reform

• Mixing of mentally ill with violent offenders was
  a problemtreatment and condition
• Dorethea Dix pushes for more humane treatment of
  mentally ill

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Utopian Societies

• Separate from the corrupted current society
• Shakers
• Brook Farm
• Oneida Community
• Usually strict rules, regulations.

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Temperance Movement

• Need for controlling alcohol abuse
• Pushed for by women(abused)
• Men spending income on it
• Neal Dow
• This would later turn to Prohibition (elimination
  of alcohol)

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Womens Rights

• Role in many of the reform movements led to need
  for greater political rights
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
• Seneca Falls Convention
• Declaration of Rights similar to Declaration of
  Independence

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Declaration of Independence
Seneca Falls
VS.

• When, in the course of human events, it becomes
  necessary for one portion of the family of man to
  assume among the people of the earth a position
  different from that which they have hitherto
  occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and
  of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to
  the opinions of mankind requires that they should
  declare the causes that impel them to such a
  course.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes
necessary for one people to dissolve the
political bands which have connected them with
another, and to assume among the powers of the
earth, the separate and equal station to which
the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the causes
which impel them to the separation
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Declaration of Independence
Seneca Falls
VS.

• We hold these truths 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 that to secure these
  rights governments are instituted, deriving their
  just powers from the consent of the governed.
  Whenever any form of government becomes
  destructive of these ends, it is the right of
  those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to
  it, and to insist upon the institution of a new
  government,

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all
men are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governed, --That whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it
is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish
it
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Susan B. Anthony

• Womens suffragette- eventually leads to 19th
  amendment- named for her-women right to vote

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Womens movement

• Important firsts
• Mary Lyon
• Opened first school for women.
• Elizabeth Blackwell
• First woman doctor

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Abolition Movement

• Push to abolish slavery in America

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Abolition Movement

• William Lloyd Garrison
• The Liberator- newspaper calling for end of
  slavery immediately-not a gradualist

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The Liberator

• I am aware that many object to the severity of my
  language but is there not cause for severity? I
  will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising
  as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to
  think, or to speak, or write, with moderation.
  No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give
  a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue
  his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the
  mother to gradually extricate her babe from the
  fire into which it has fallen but urge me not
  to use moderation in a cause like the present. I
  am in earnest I will not equivocate I will
  not excuse I will not retreat a single inch
  AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is
  enough to make every statue leap from its
  pedestal, and to hasten the resurrection of the
  dead.

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Abolition Movement

• Frederick Douglas
• Former slave calling for end of slavery
• I am a thief

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Abolition Continued

• Harriet Tubman
• Underground Railroad
• The Black Moses

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Abolition Continued

• Sojourner Truth

If the first woman God ever made was strong
enough to turn the world upside down all alone,
these women together ought to be able to turn it
back , and get it right side up again! And now
they is asking to do it, the men better let them
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Abolition Continued

• Nat Turner
• Slave Rebellion
• Scared Southern slave owners even more about
  abolitionists

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Abolition Continued

• Sarah and Angelina Grimke
• Southern sisters fighting against slavery