1. Unit 6- Age of Jackson - Early 1800s Reforms: Rights & Slavery

2. Bell Ringer:
What does it mean to reform something?

3. Crash Course

4. Education
most children were educated at home but some communities established schools
The American Spelling Book was written by Noah Webster
popular textbook
included American spelling forms
NOT the old English ways..

5. Education Public School Movement- Horace Mann is leader
sought to establish a tax supported public school system, State Boards of Education, teacher training.
standardized calendars, adequate school funding, abolish corporal punishment, establish teacher training programs

6. Mental/Prison Reform Dorothea Dix
Discovered mentally ill patients housed with criminals
Spent 2 yrs visiting prisons
Campaigned across nation that successfully led to creation of first modern mental hospitals

7. Mental/Prison Reform Penitentiary Movement
reformers believed prisoners should feel sorrow for one’s crimes
prisoners should have opportunity to become better, not just be punished- rehabilitate

8. Women’s Movement
With the industrial revolution women began to work outside of the home for the first time
this gave them some economic independence

9. Women’s Movement
The 2nd Great Awakening opened new opportunities for women
they were leaders of many reform movements

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Cult of Domesticity
1800’s belief that once married women should take care of the home and children
There were four things they believed that women should be:
More religious than men
Pure in heart, mind, and body
Submissive to their husbands
Staying at home

11. The Anti Slavery Movement
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Published “Letters on Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women”
**argued God made men and women…therefore men and women should be treated equal.
both wrote and spoke out against slavery
established a school for African American girls

12. Women’s Movement Seneca Falls Convention - 1848
nation’s first Women’s Rights Convention
organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Declaration of Sentiments
“all men and women are created equal”
called for women’s equality and suffrage

13. Susan B Anthony Inspired by the convention.
Susan B Anthony
Inspired by the convention
Long-time and major activist in women’s movement for the right to vote

14. The Anti Slavery Movement
Abolitionist Movement = abolishing slavery
By 1830 there were around 2 million slaves in the U.S.
Most worked on cotton plantations
Brutal work routines, beatings, being separated from family
The basics of survival were barely provided
Slaves resisted bondage in several ways
breaking tools, releasing livestock, or escaping

15. The Anti Slavery Movement
William Lloyd Garrison
newspaper publisher
began printing The Liberator, an anti slavery newspaper
said that slavery was morally wrong
wanted immediate emancipation (freeing of slaves)

16. Sojourner Truth
Former slave known for her powerful speeches against slavery

17. The Anti Slavery Movement
Frederick Douglass
former slave
spoke and wrote about his life as slave
“The Narrative of the the life of Frederick Douglass”

18. The Anti Slavery Movement
Gag Rule- 1836
Law prohibited the discussion of slavery in Congress
the rule was renewed annually for 8 years

19. Exit Ticket:
Why do you think Congress would pass the Gag Rule of 1836?
(Law prohibited the discussion of slavery in Congress)