1. Women’s Rights movement
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Social Reform Worksheet #1/Chapter 14
1. What does it mean to reform something?
3. Who often led the movements
in social reform?
2. What is social reform then?
Women’s Rights movement
Dress reform? Female reformers also fought for what most women today consider a personal right – freedom of dress. During the mid-1800’s, women were expected to wear long skirts that weighted about 20 pounds and corsets that put extreme pressure on the abdominal area. These corsets often broke ribs and damaged internal organs/ Some women began wearing bloomers – baggy pants worn under a short skirt.
“I ask no favors for my sex…All I ask our brethren (brothers) is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.”
Women were active in the movements to reform prisons and schools. They fought for temperance and worked for abolition. But with all their work for social change, women still lacked many rights and opportunities of their own. Throughout the 1800’s, the women’s rights movement gradually became stronger and more organized.
4. True/False – All women supported the women’s rights movement of the 1800’s.

2. Seneca Falls Convention
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Social Reform Worksheet #1
Seneca Falls Convention
5. Who are these women?
7. What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
8. What was the Declaration of Sentiments?
6. What was their role in the Seneca Falls Convention?
Susan B.
Anthony
9. Who was Susan B. Anthony with respect to the
women’s movement? (how did she support it?)
10. Who was opposed to the women’s movement?
Why?
11. Create a timeline above of events that were significant to the Women’s movement.

3. 18. What did these Amendments do?
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Social Reform Worksheet #2
Movement
Leaders
Accomplishments
12. Prison and mental health
13. Temperance
14. Education
15. What is temperance?
16. Average American annual consumption of alcohol:
1830:
2011: 22 gallons (rough est.)
17. What were the concerns over alcohol abuse in America?
18. What did these Amendments do?
#18
#21

4. 21. I believe that education…
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Social Reform Worksheet #2
Common-school
Movement
23. Why do we educate?
19. What is the Common-school movement?
20. Does this exist today? Explain.
24. What affected the
quality of education?
Horace Mann
21. I believe that education…
22. What were Horace Mann’s contributions to education?