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I. Social Reform
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1. Religion
2. Education
3. Culture
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1. Religious Revival
A. Second Great Awakening
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1 What eye­opening movement increased church membership and social reform awareness?
1. increased church membership
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2. Inspired people to become active in social reform
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B. Temperance Movement (of alcohol)
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1. Alcohol was abused on the frontier and by "urbanites"
2. Seen as the cause of poverty, crime, family problems
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2. Education Reform
A. Horace Mann from Massachusetts
1. leader of educational reform
2. at the time, only NE provided free elementary education
3. improved the MA school system and inspired others to do the same
2 Which area of the United States started to offer public education to its children first?
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B
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New England
Mid­Atlantic
Georgia
The west
B. Education for Some
1. Schools were poorly funded by state governments
2. Females received a limited education
3. Few schools in the s­p­a­r­s­e­l­y populated west
4. Black children had little opportunity
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2. Education Reform (continued)
C. Higher Education
1. many did not go on to high school
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3 This person is credited for reforming the American prison system and helping the mentally ill get the treatment they needed
2. colleges reserved for males only
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3. religious institutions lead to way for new universities
­Amherst and Holy Cross (MA)
Horace Mann
Dorthea Dix
Thomas Gallaudet
Samuel Gridley Howe
D. People with Special Needs
1. Thomas Gallaudet: hearing impaired school
2. Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe: school for the visually impaired
3. Dorthea Dix: worked on helping the mentally ill
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3. Cultural Changes
A. Art and Literature
Nov 14­1:00 PM
4 What stressed the relationship between humans and nature?
1. used to model Europeans
2. 1820's: a new American­style emerged
B. Transcendentalists
A Transcendentalism
B Utopian communties
C capitalism
1. stressed the relationship between humans and nature 2. Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller
3. wrote about listening to conscience, women's rights
4. Works: Stowe ­ Uncle Tom's Cabin ­ addressed slavery
Henry W. Longfellow: Song of Hiawatha ­ story
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (reflected American spirit
Emily Dickinson ­ Hope (personal poem, womens rights)
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II. Womens Movement
1. Women and Reform
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5 What was the main objective (goal) of the ­ Many women worked to end slavery and for women's rights
­ Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Caty Stanton (abolitionists)
Seneca Falls
Seneca Falls Convention?
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lower taxes
cheaper schools
womens suffrage
health care reform
2. Seneca Falls Convention ­ voting rights
­ July 1848: met in Seneca Falls, NY
­ "women should have equal rights as men do"
­ 200 Women and 20 men attended
­ Main issue: suffrage (the right to vote)
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3. Women's Movement Grows
A. Education
1. the teaching of boys and girls together (coeducation)
2. college training for girls
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6 What did the Temperence Movement try to reform (change)?
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B
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slavery
immigration
child labor
Alcohol sales and consumption
B. Temperence Movement
1. banishing the sale and consumption of alcohol
C. Winning the Right to Vote
1. 1890 ­ Wyoming becomes the first state to allow women to vote
2. 1920 ­ women gain ability to vote nation­wide
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4. Progress by American Women
A. Education
1. Emma Willard: Troy Female Seminary (upstate New York)
­1821: taught math, history, geography to girls
2. Mary Lyon: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (Mass.)
­ broke barriers to female education
Nov 14­1:07 PM
7 What education did women recieve before colleges and universities were created for them?
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house keeping skills
parenting classes
how to cook
all the above
B. Marriage and Family Law
1. some states allow woment to own land after marriage
2. shared custody of children with husbands
C. Breaking Barriers
1. women became doctors and ministers 2. Elizabeth Blackwell: grad. top of her class at Geneva Coll.
3. social customs and expectations still limited women
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Bottom Line
1. social reforms changed the way people viewed human rights in the United States
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8 were women allowed to vote NATION WIDE after the Age of Reform or was it confined to one state?
A yes they could vote nation­wide
B no it was confined to one state
2. religious movements influenced morality on numerous issues
3. women had to advocate for their own rights but still had many hurdles to clear before they were seen as equals under the law as men were
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