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Reform Movements
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I Will: Evaluate the impact of reform movements, including educational reform, temperance, the women's rights movement, prison reform, abolition, the labor reform movement, and care of the disabled through foldable and video clips. (8.24B) (8.25B) We Will: evaluate the impact of various reform movements, during 19th century United States.
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Educational Reform The opening of public schools primarily in the North, as well as private grade schools and colleges by churches and other groups.
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Temperance Movement Organized societies largely made up of women activists, such as the American Temperance Society, Daughters of Temperance, and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union worked to get legislation passed to ban the consumption of alcohol. Some states passed laws that made it illegal to sell alcohol. Temperance movements typically criticize excessive alcohol consumption, promote complete abstinence, or use its political influence to press the government to enact alcohol laws to regulate the availability of alcohol or even its complete prohibition.
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Temperance Movement Early temperance movement began during the American Revolution in Connecticut, Virginia and New York state, with farmers forming associations to ban whiskey distilling. The movement spread to eight states, advocating temperance rather than abstinence and taking positions on religious issues such as observance of the Sabbath (blue laws). FUN FACT Blue laws- Laws designed to restrict or ban some or all Sunday activities for religious reasons, particularly to promote the observance of a day of worship or rest. Texas is a blue law state, when it comes to alcohol.
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18th Amendment The 18th amendment is the only amendment to be repealed from the constitution. This unpopular amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. This amendment took effect in 1919 and was a huge failure.
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17th Amendment Established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. Why is the 17th amendment important? The 17th Amendment, ratified in 1913, was part of a wave of progressive constitutional reforms that sought to make the Constitution, and our nation, more democratic. It gave Americans the right to vote directly for their Senators, thereby strengthening the link between citizens and the federal government.
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Women’s Rights Movement
Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include, though are not limited to, the right: to bodily integrity and autonomy; to be free from sexual violence; to vote; to hold public office; to enter into legal contracts; to have equal rights in family law; to work; to fair wages or equal pay; to have reproductive rights; to own property; to education. Women’s Rights Movement They were well-organized groups that fought for better working conditions for women. The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It spanned two days over July 19-20, At the convention they drafted the Declaration of Sentiments. Frederick Douglass was the only African American attendee, and argued for the right to vote to be included in the Declaration of Sentiments. More conventions occurred, until 1861 when the American Civil War began.
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19th Amendment The 19th amendment is a very important amendment to the constitution as it gave women the right to vote, prohibiting any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex, in FUN FACTS Tennessee was the last state to ratify the amendment (Aug. 18, 1920). Texas was the 9th state to ratify the amendment (June 28, 1919).
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“Women's Rights Movement 19 Century”
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Prison Reform Pushed for separate jails for women, men, and children; called for the mission of prisons to be about rehabilitation.
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Care of the disabled Efforts by activists, such as Dorothea Dix, resulted in the opening of the first mental asylums in the United States in the early 1800s. Thomas H. Gallaudet established the first permanent school for deaf persons in 1817. Louis Braille invented a raised-point alphabet taught to students for the first time in 1860 at the St. Louis School for the Blind.
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Abolition movement For over a century, abolitionists worked to bring about the end of the enslavement of people; slavery was eventually abolished as a practice in the United States with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. Thirteenth Amendment- forbids slavery and forced labor except, as regards the latter, as punishment for crime. Images like this were used in the abolition movement to focus on atrocities against slaves. (1863)
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Labor reform movement The earliest organization of labor reform was centered on reducing the work day to 10 hours. In 1847 New Hampshire became the first state to enact a 10-hour work day. Later the movement work to support wage increases. Unionization of workers was de facto illegal until the Commonwealth v Hunt decision in 1842; efforts to unionize were realized in the late 1800s with the creation of several national labor unions.
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
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Foldable Title in your interactive notebook: Progressive Ideas and Reforms. Women’s Suffrage End Child Labor An 8 hour work day Banning of Alcohol Abolish Monopolies
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Foldable continued. Referendum, Recall, and Initiative 17th Amendment
Sherman Anti-Trust Act 18th Amendment
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