1. Temperance “Alcoholic Republic” ½ Pint a Day
Decreased Efficiency at Work
Danger to Families
***Moderate Use of Alcohol
Prohibition-Make Alcohol Illegal

2. More Temperance 1826 American Temperance Society-Lyman Beecher
Mostly Female Membership (Most Reform Movements WHY??)
1851 Maine Law-No Sale or Manufacture of Alcohol (Neal Dow)
States Have Similar Laws

3. Even More Temperance
Martha Washington Societies
teetotalism

4. Prisons Emphasis on Rehabilitation Rather Than Punishment
End of Debtors’ Prisons
Pennsylvania System-Solitary Confinement (No Human Contact)
Auburn System-Structured Day & Religious Instruction

5. Asylums Dorothea Dix-Hospitals & Treatment for Mentally Ill
Thomas Gallaudet-Schools for Deaf Students
Samuel Gridley Howe-Brail System

6. Public Education Informed Electorate Competent Workforce
Assimilate Immigrants
Instill Morals/Values

7. Horace Mann State Supported Free Schools
Reforms-Teacher Training, Standardized Curriculum, Longer Days & Years, Grade Levels, Attendance Requirements
McGuffey Reader

8. Women’s Rights
London World Antislavery Meeting-Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton denied Opportunity to speak
1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York-61 Women & 43 Men
“Declaration of Sentiments”-All Men & Women Created Equal

9. Female Gains 12 States Allow Married Women to Control Property
Bloomer Costume-More Comfortable Clothing
Occupations-Nursing & Teaching
Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary
Oberlin College-females & African Americans

10. Utopian Experiments Cooperative Labor Collective Ownership
No Materialism

11. New Harmony Robert Owen No Religion, No Marriage, No Private Property
Failed Due to Laziness

12. Shakers Self Sufficient Agricultural Community
No Marriage, No Sex, Adoption

13. Oneida Colony Free Love-Communal Care of Children
Successful Small Industry of Silver Products

14. Brook Farm Transcendentalist Society
Manual Labor by Day & Intellectual Pursuits in Evenings
Debt Ends Community

15. Fourierist Phalanxes Named for French reformer Charles Fourier
Cooperative communities of 1,800 or less
Focus on industry, science, and art
Highest wages went to necessary but repulsive labor
Lowest wages went to most pleasant work