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The Spirit of Reform
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Shift in Focus: Political Needs > Social Needs
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Education Horace Mann-free public education
Noah Webster- the American Spelling Book William McGuffy *readers/uniform language State Universities Catherine Beecher *education for women Adult education *free public libraries
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Prisoners & the Disabled
Louis Braille *blind children to read by touch Dorothea Dix *mentally ill, insane
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Women’s Rights Susan B. Anthony Carrie Chapman Catt
Seneca Falls Convention – 1848 Declaration of Sentiments “We hold these truths to self-evident, that all men AND women are created EQUAL”
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Abolition Frederick Douglass *North Star *Political Methods
William Lloyd Garrison *The Liberator
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Abolition New England Led Theodore Weld Sarah & Angelina Grimke – S.C.
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Abolition Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman
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Abolition Slave Revolts Nat Turner Denmark Vesey
Result: tighter restrictions, slave codes Hidden Protests Slave Songs
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Second Great Awakening
Strengthening existing religions Utopian Communities *Shakers *Brook Farm
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