1. Women’s Rights Education Prison Reform Abolition Temperance
Reform Movement
Purpose of the Movement
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People Events and Terms
Matching Quote
Women holding up a sign that says “VOTES FOR WOMEN”
Seneca Falls Convention, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B Anthony
Women’s Rights
Equal rights for women
“The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Raise the quality of education in America and provide equal education for African Americans and disabled.
Two story school house with all ages of white children in front.
“It was in making education…compulsory that… the destiny of America… was settled.”
– J. Lowell
Horace Mann
- Braille system
- Schools for African Americans & disabled
Education
Improve conditions for prisoners, separate mentally ill into separate facility, reduce crowding.
“Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from rime by harsh measures.”
- Dorthea Dix
Dorthea Dix
- Hospitals for mentally ill
- Improved conditions for prisoners
Crowded Jail Cell
Prison Reform
“Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.”
- William Lloyd Garrison
Invitation to stop an abolitionist speaker
Abolition
Frederick Douglass
- Harriet Tubman
- William Lloyd Garrison
End Slavery
Limit the consumption of alcohol and reduce domestic violence
“The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.”
- Author Unknown
Angry women around a sign that says “Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours.”
Temperance
Women
Prohibition
Improve conditions for factory workers and ban child labor
Boys working in mining
Labor Unions
- Ban on child Labor
“Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.”
- S. Gompers
Labor Reform

2. Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience….
What is Civil Disobedience?
Thoreau’s Tax- He questioned why man would follow a law they deem to be unjust? Thoreau was an Abolitionist and refused to pay his taxes to a government that supported slavery. He was arrested for not paying his taxes and spent a night in jail….but his question on Man refusing to follow laws he sees unjust has been the basis for many reforms and protest movements throughout time.

3. Immigration/Migration of Groups in the US.
Immigrant Group
Reasons for Immigration/Migration
Contribution to the US
Quakers
Immigrated to the US for Religious Freedom
Settled Pennsylvania
Mormons
Migrated to Utah on the Mormon Trail for religious freedom
Founded Utah and the Mormon Trail across the US
Immigrated to the Northeast part of the US due to the Irish potato Famine
Worked in Factories in the NE and settled an Urban lifestyle
Irish
Immigrated to the NE part of the US due to Natural disaster and poverty in Italy.
Worked in Factories in the NE and settled an Urban lifestyle
Italians
Chinese
Immigrated to the US to work on the Railroad
Settled in the Western part of the US once the trans-continental railroad was complete.