1. Reform Movements of the Early 1800s

2. Reform Movements of the Early 1800s
What is it?
Who played a key role?
Effect?
Temperance
Public School
Women’s Rights
Abolition

3. 1826 - American Temperance Society “Demon Rum”!
Temperance Movement
American Temperance Society “Demon Rum”!
Frances Willard
The Beecher Family
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4. Temperance Movement
What: People should drink less alcohol or it should be outlawed altogether
Who: Women played a key role, which laid the foundation for the women’s movement
Effect: Increased the size of the Protestant religious organizations and their influence in western and rural sections of the country

5. From the first glass to the grave, 1846
“The Drunkard’s Progress”
From the first glass to the grave, 1846

6. Educational Reform
What: All children should be required to attend free schools supported by taxpayers and staffed by trained teachers
MA  always on the forefront of public educational reform * 1st state to establish tax support for local public schools.
By 1860 every state offered free public education to whites * US had one of the highest literacy rates.

7. children were clay in the hands of teachers and school officials
Horace Mann ( )
“Father of
American Education”
children were clay in the hands of teachers and school officials
children should be “molded” into a state of perfection
discouraged corporal punishment
established state teacher- training programs
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8. Used religious parables to teach “American values.”
The McGuffey Eclectic Readers
Used religious parables to teach “American values.”
Teach middle class morality and respect for order.
Teach “3 Rs” + “Protestant ethic” (frugality, hard work, sobriety)
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9. Early 19c Women Unable to vote. Legal status of a minor.
Single  could own her own property.
Married  no control over her property or her children.
Could not initiate divorce.
Couldn’t make wills, sign a contract, or bring suit in court without her husband’s permission.

10. What It Would Be Like If Ladies Had Their Own Way!

11. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Women’s Rights
1840  split in the abolitionist movement over women’s role in it.
Women really wanted the right to vote
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1848  Seneca Falls Convention!

12. Seneca Falls Declaration

13. Abolitionist Movement
Slavery should be abolished
It should not be allowed in new states
Made slavery and its expansion an important political issue
Women played a key role

14. Women’s Rights - Slavery
Angelina Grimké
Sarah Grimké
Southern Abolitionists
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15. Anti-Slavery Alphabet

16. William Lloyd Garrison (1801-1879)
Slavery undermined republican values.
Immediate emancipation with NO compensation.
Slavery was a moral, not an economic issue.
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17. Premiere issue  January 1, 1831
The Liberator
Premiere issue  January 1, 1831
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18. Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
1845  The Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass
1847  “The North Star”
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19. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Who was he? slave preacher in VA
What did he do? Led an uprising of slaves
Successful? He did kill 60 people, but the rebellion was squashed.
Result: Made Southerners paranoid about future slave uprisings  led them to limit slave activities