Reform Movements of the 1800s
Public Education Why: Only wealthy children received an education, but as of 1826, white men from all social classes could vote Goal/Purpose: provide free education to ensure all citizens were educated and could make informed decisions Leader: Horace Mann
Abolitionism Why: Northern abolitionists saw slavery as an evil and as immoral. They believed that anyone who owned slaves would go to hell. Goal/Purpose: end slavery Leaders: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Grimke Sisters (Sarah and Angela), Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman The Grimke Sisters and Sojourner Truth were also a part of the Women’s Rights movement!
Women’s Rights Why: women did not have the same rights as men (divorce, property ownership, voting, etc.) Goal/Purpose: give women more equal rights Leader: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (leader at the Seneca Falls Convention) Women and men met in 1848 to discuss women’s rights at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York.
The Cult of Domesticity Why: women were leaving the home to work in factories and asking for more rights Basic Belief: A woman’s place (“sphere of influence”) was in the home as a wife or mother “Domestic”= home Leaders: protestant men and women Gained momentum again in the 1950s
Eventually led to Prohibition in the 1920s Temperance Movement Why: people were drinking more alcohol, men were becoming more abusive when drinking, men were wasting family’s $ on alcohol Goal/Main Objective: get people to drink less alcohol Leaders: white protestant women Eventually led to Prohibition in the 1920s