1. Business Work, Quizzes Back Slavery assignment Due:
B- Thursday April 20
H- Wednesday April 19

2. How did Reform take place in the 1800s?
Women, Education, Religion

3. Women in the 1800s All women treated as 2nd class citizens
Couldn’t vote, hold property, control lives
Not admitted to most colleges
Believed to be biologically inferior
Ideal woman= religious, mild mannered, obedient, domestic
Cult of domesticity

4. Women’s Rights Movement
Middle and upper class women had leisure time (left out of professional life)
Involved in reform
Abolition = equality
Women entitled to equal status too
1848- Seneca Falls convention

5. Seneca Falls 1848- Seneca Falls convention
Seneca Falls Declaration
Similar language to Declaration of Independence
Listed women’s grievances
Right to vote
Equal education
Owning property
Progress (others took up cause):
Divorce laws
Right to sue
Control property

6. “Women’s” Causes Women’s Rights Temperance Education / childcare
Outlawing alcohol
Why?
Victims of alcoholism/actions/ abuse
Education / childcare
Abolition

7. Education in the 1800s
Education responsibility of family, not the government
Children taught at home
What is a problem with this?
Church schools- minister taught lessons (religious)
Dame schools- women taught basic reading and writing (for a fee)
Adventure schools- girls learned crafts, dancing, etc
Male and $$ = high education

8. Education Reform
Argument = democracy can’t exist without people reading and writing
Schools would teach patriotism, values
Public education – free education for all people, run by government

9. Education Reform Horace Mann- advocate for improved public education
Fought for:
Better schools
Higher teacher salaries
Set up normal schools
Teacher training schools

10. Religion- Ideal Communities
Some wanted new society where all wealth shared
Some built new communities away from others
Ideal communities
Ex: Mormons, Shakers

11. Transcendentalism New thought about literature and philosophy Idea:
People can transcend (rise above) reason through faith in themselves
Believed in basic human goodness, individualism
People know what is good, right
Criticized government, laws, institutions

12. Transcendentalism

13. 2nd Great Awakening Tolerance- God and religion is for everyone
Kept high moral standards, calls for improvement
Enthusiasm for religion
Camp meetings spread across country
Church attendance, social reform increased

14. 1800s Reforms / Changes Women’s Rights Education Religion
Ideal Communities
2nd Great Awakening
Transcendentalism
What’s missing?
Slavery / Abolition

15. Slavery and Abolition Slavery was an American institution
Existed from (before) country’s founding
Americans split over slavery issue
North vs South
“How can it be fought?”
Abolitionists
Laws, writings
Expansion
Violence
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