BRIEF REVIEW ABOUT THE EARLY REFORMS DURING THE 1800'S

1. REFORM MOVEMENTS AND A NEW
AMERICAN CULTURE

2. WHAT IS REFORM???
• SOMEONE IS TRYING TO CHANGE
SOMETHING.
• IN THE 1800'S PEOPLE SAW HOW MANY
INSTITUTIONS IN THE U.S. WERE AND FELT
REFORM WAS NECESSARY
• MANY OF THE REFORMERS WERE WOMEN
• SOME OF THE MOVEMENTS WERE ENDING
SLAVERY, DRINKING ALCOHOL EDUCATION,
WOMEN'S RIGHTS, JAILS AND MENTAL
INSTITUTIONS

3. WHAT WAS THE SECOND GREAT
AWAKENING????
• Renewal of religious faith
in the early 1800s
• Anyone could receive
salvation
• Traveling preachers held
camp meetings where
they preached that faith
led to helping others
• This awakened the
reform spirit of America
as people began to
believe they could act to
make things better

4. WHO WAS DOROTHEA DIX????
• Dorothea Dix campaigned
for the mentally ill and
prison reform.
• Her efforts led to the
building of 32 new mental
institutions, and prisons
began calling for
rehabilitation
• Schools for the deaf and
the blind were also started

5. WHAT WAS THE TEMPERANCE
MOVEMENT???
The Temperance
Movement was a
campaign to stop the
drinking of alcohol and
benefit society.
Supported by women who
said it led to the breakup
of the family
Alcohol was banned in 13
states.

6. WHAT WERE SOME IMPROVEMENTS
IN EDUCATION???
• Few children
attended school.
• Horace Mann asked
the state (MA) for
money for education.
• Under Mann new
schools were built,
school year extended,
and school to train
teachers opened.

7. WHAT WERE SOME IMPROVEMENTS
IN EDUCATION FOR BLACKS???
• A few states set up
schools for black
students.
• Blacks opened their
own schools to
educate their children
• Some Blacks
attended private
colleges like Harvard
or Oberlin.

8. WHAT WAS THE ABOLITIONIST
MOVEMENT???
• An abolitionist wanted to
end or abolish slavery
• William Lloyd Garrison
printed the most
influential anti-slavery
newspaper called the
Liberator
• The Grimke Sisters
grew up on a plantation
and believed slavery was
morally wrong

9. WHO WERE SOME FAMOUS
AFRICAN AMERICAN
ABOLITIONISTS??
• Frederick Douglass and
Sojourner Truth were
traveling abolitionist
speakers who spoke from
their own experience of
slavery
• Douglass began
publishing an antislavery
newspaper called the
North Star.

10. WHAT WAS THE UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD????
• This was a series of
escape routes from the
South to the North
• Runaway slaves
traveled by foot,
wagon, boat, and train
• Harriet Tubman was a
conductor on the
Underground
Railroad

11. A CALL FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS
• Most women suffragists
started out as
abolitionists.
• When not allowed to
speak at the World
Anti-Slavery
Convention in London
in 1840, they turned
some of their interests
to equality for women

12. WHAT HAPPENED AT THE SENECA
FALLS CONVENTION???
Participants in the 1848
Seneca Falls meeting
voted upon a resolution
that demanded equality
for women in these
places-Work, schools
and churches

13. WHAT HAPPENED AT THE SENECA
FALLS CONVENTION???
They read their Declaration
of Sentiments-which
listed several
complaints and
resolutions, ending
with a demand for
voting rights (suffrage).

14. WORKER RIGHTS
• Factory work was
noisy, tedious, and
unsafe, and workers
began calling for
better conditions
through labor unions
and strikes

15. WHO WAS TAKING GOOD NOTES???
1. WHAT IS REFORM?
2. NAME SOME OF THE THINGS PEOPLE
WERE TRYING TO REFORM.
3.WHO WAS DOROTHEA DIX?
4.WHAT WAS THE TEMPERANCE
MOVEMENT???
5. A FEW STATES SET UP SCHOOLS FOR
BLACK STUDENTS. T OR F

16. WERE YOU TAKING GOOD
NOTES???
6. WHAT WAS THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT??
7. WHO WERE SOME FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICAN
ABOLITIONISTS?
8.WHAT WAS THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD?
9.WHAT WAS THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT???
10.Participants in the 1848 Seneca Falls meeting voted
upon a resolution that demanded equality for women
in these places?