1. Reform Movements in America
Reform: to change

2. Suffrage Movement Suffrage—the right to vote
Many states still required land to vote until 1828
Until 1920, most women could not vote in US
In 1848 the largest assembly in Seneca Falls, NY for woman’s rights

3. Abolition Movement Abolition— movement to end slavery
led by preachers who believed slavery was a “national sin”
1820s, over 100 antislavery societies call for resettlement in Africa

4. Public Education Movements
Before 1860, only two states made school mandatory
Few children went to school beyond the age of 10
In the 1830’s Americans begin to demand tax-supported public schools
Public schools in the South and the West took longer to be established

5. Temperance Movement Temperance: abstinence from alcohol
Temperance Movement- movement led by churches to prohibit the drinking of alcohol
By 1833, over 6,000 temperance societies were established throughout the U.S
This movement would eventually cause the U.S to pass the 18th Amendment in 1917

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9. Mount Reform Read the profile sheet for each reformer
Complete the yellow sheet
Reform and issue
Decided/debate as a group who was most important

10. an educator of Massachusetts
Created public schools that were state funded and mandatory
Established teacher training programs
Helped to doubled the money that his state spent on schools
Believed in temperance, abolition, and women’s rights

11. Horace Mann

12. William Lloyd Garrison, white abolitionist
Publishes The Liberator in Boston
demands immediate emancipation- the freeing of slaves with no payment to slave holders

13. William Lloyd Garrison

14. Frederick Douglass, former slave, speaks out on slavery
Begins his own antislavery newspaper, The North Star
supported women's rights because he thought everyone should be treated equally
first black citizen to hold a high U.S. government rank

15. Frederick Douglass

16. Sarah and Angela Grimke
Grew up on a plantation in South Carolina (family owned slaves)
These women spoke out against slavery
Want women’s rights and gender inequality
Ran school for women

17. Grimke Sisters

18. Played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality.
Collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17—New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was a woman

19. Susan B. Anthony

20. Against the “Cult of Domesticity”- idea that housework and childcare were the only proper activities for married women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott call women’s rights convention
Organized the first women’s rights convention in 1848— Seneca Falls Convention
Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments using model of the Declaration of Independence
68 women and 32 men sign and approve at the convention

21. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

22. the voting population was enlarged Supported by the common people
Expanded suffrage for white men: some states still had property qualifications for voting
the voting population was enlarged
Supported by the common people
Jacksonian democracy—focused on the idea of political power for all classes (poor to rich)
Spoils system- political supporters of the president get jobs based on political loyalty, campaign donations and support during election years

23. President Andrew Jackson

24. Jacksonian Style
Jacksonian democracy— ideal of political power for all classes
Spoils system- political supporters of the president get jobs based on political loyalty, campaign donations and support during election years

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