1. Reform Movements

2. SSocial reform is the attempt to improve society through change.

3. SOCIAL REFORM Temperance Education Reform for Disabled Abolitionism Women’s Rights

4.  The temperance movement was the desire to get rid of alcohol (“Demon Rum”)  Many people thought that alcohol was the cause of many other problems like poverty, broken families, and crime.

5.  The movement to provide free public education for all.

6.  The movement to change the treatment of those with disabilities— especially mental disabilities.

7.  The movement to abolish, or ban, slavery.

8.  The movement trying to get the same rights for women that men had, especially the right to vote.

9.  Many reformers were active in more than one cause.  For example: Frederick Douglass (abolitionism and women’s rights) Susan B. Anthony (Temperance and women’s rights)

10.  What reforms do we need today?  How can you help?