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The Spirit of Reform 1820 - 1850.

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1 The Spirit of Reform

2 Shift in Focus: Political Needs > Social Needs

3 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

4 Prisoners & the Disabled
Louis Braille *blind children to read by touch Dorothea Dix *mentally ill, insane

5 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”

6 Abolition Frederick Douglass *North Star *Political Methods
William Lloyd Garrison *The Liberator

7 Abolition New England Led Theodore Weld Sarah & Angelina Grimke – S.C.

8 Abolition Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman

9 Abolition Slave Revolts Nat Turner Denmark Vesey
Result: tighter restrictions, slave codes Hidden Protests Slave Songs

10 Second Great Awakening
Strengthening existing religions Utopian Communities *Shakers *Brook Farm


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