Reform Movements Objective 2.05
Temperance Called for moderation of the consumption of alcohol Alcohol caused crime, disorder, and poverty West: used to ease loneliness East: pubs, social activity Some pushed to prohibit alcohol
Prison Reform Regardless of crime, inmates were crowded in together Wanted to provide better environments Rehabilitation of prisoners also came into play with the introduction of penitentiaries
Education Reform Push for government-funded schools to be opened for all citizens Massachusetts was first to pass this Leadership of Mass. movement was Horace Mann Calvin Wiley was leader in NC
Treatment of Mentally Handicapped Reform of mental hospitals School teacher, Dorothea Dix, was the leader of the reform Began reform after she taught a Sunday school class in a mental facility and was appalled
Women’s Movement Pushed for women’s voting rights Seneca Falls Convention (1848): beginning of organized movement Led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Utopian Communities Society tended to corrupt human nature Wanted to separate and form own utopia—an ideal society Included cooperative living and absence of private property
Brook Farm—became most popular in Mass., est. by George Ripley Shakers—not successful, didn’t believe in having children