REFORM MOVEMENTS 1800-1850

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REFORM MOVEMENTS1800-1850
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• change from manual labor in the homes to machine
  labor in factories

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Eli Whitney

• Cotton Gin
• took the seeds from cotton
• farmers planted even more cotton
• slavery increased
• Southern economy became dependent on cotton

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Eli Whitney (cont.)

• Interchangeable Parts
• made it quicker and easier to make products
• first used on muskets

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Northern Economy vs. Southern Economy

• North had
• cheap labor
• money from businesses
• fast moving rivers

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Northern Economy vs. Southern Economy

• South had
• fertile land
• long growing seasons
• Cotton

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2nd Great Awakening

• Lyman Beecher
• Charles Gradison Finney
• GOAL bring people back to church
• IMPACT church membership increased

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Transcendentalists

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau
• GOAL spiritual discovery through nature
• IMPACT Civil Disobedience during the civil
  rights movement

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Womens Rights Movement

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• GOAL greater opportunities and rights for women
• IMPACT gradual improvements

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Temperance

• American Temperance Society
• GOAL end alcohol consumption
• IMPACT alcohol consumption went down family
  violence went down

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Prison Reform

• Dorothea Dix
• GOAL improve prison conditions and separate the
  mentally ill
• IMPACT improved prison conditions, established
  hospitals for mentally ill

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Public Education

• Horace Mann
• GOAL tax supported public schools
• IMPACT of American children attending school
  doubled

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Utopian Communities

• Robert Owen
• GOAL make perfect communities
• IMPACT short lived, didnt last

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Abolitionist Movement

• Nat Turner
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglass
• GOAL end slavery
• IMPACT made everyone aware of how wrong slavery
  was