Chapter 18 THE ERA OF REFORM REFORM To
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Chapter 18 THE ERA OF REFORM
REFORM • To make changes in order to bring about improvement • Often sought to: • End abuses • Correct injustices • How had the growth of the country dealt with the diversity and increase in population?
2 ND GREAT AWAKENING • Revival of religious feeling • Belied from 1800 s – 1840 s • Encouraged by church leaders • 2 -3 days of spiritual reform • Intense study of God • Prayed, shouted, sang hymns Click on the image to watch a 2 minute you tube video • The New Promise: Everyone can be forgiven of their sins
TRANSCENDENTALISM • Emerson – Former Minister • Every human = unlimited potential • Must go beyond logical thinking • Trust emotions, intuition, nature • Question society’s rules
THOREAU & INDIVIDUALISM • Thoreau= • Walden Pond Solitude • Refused to pay taxes to protest the Mexican war • “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step tot the music which he hears. ” • Model Communities • Search for Utopia
DORTHEA DIX & PRISON REFORM • Prior to Reform: • • • Objective of prison was punitive Prisoners bound in chains Children treated as adults Debtors locked up for less than $20 Treatment of mentally ill was horrible • Post Reform • Created special mental health hospitals • Debtors no longer imprisoned • Outlawed cruel & unusual punishments What to read more about Dorthea Dix? Click on her picture for a link
HORACE MANN & EDUCATION REFORM • Mann, known as “Father of American Public Schools” • Prior to Reform: • • • School year short to kids could work on farms Wealthy families could pay for private tutors Teachers had limited training and pay Click on the above image to read more about Mann Large class sizes in small school houses Believed children were on the road to prison without schooling • Post Reform (albeit unfinished): • Taxes used for better schools, teacher pay, buildings • Predominately male • African Americans excluded
MOVEMENT TO END SLAVERY • Abolitionist • A person who supported abolition, or the ending of slavery • 1776: Quakers stopped their involvement in slavery after the American Rev • 1792: every state North of VA had anti-slavery movements • 1808: The slave trade officially ended due to the Slave Trade Compromise of the Constitutional Convention • 1831: William Lloyd Garrison wrote The Liberator • Abolitionists wanted to end slavery but disagreed on how. • A revolution? • Through the political process?
FREDERICK DOUGLASS • • Escaped slave who was a famous abolitionist Self-educated Powerful orator and writer Started his own newspaper, North Star • “Right is of no sex – truth is of no color…” Click on the below image to watch a 3 minute clip about Douglass
SOJOURNER TRUTH • Famed African American Woman • Former Slave • “Nobody ever helps me…. ain’t I a woman? ” Click on the below image to watch a 3 minute clip about Truth
THE GRIMKE SISTERS • Angelina and Sarah Grimke • Raised in a slave-owning family in SC • Believed that women and slaves have much in common • Believed that if African Americans were given equal rights then it would eventually come for women as well. • Helped raise money for the abolitionist movement “What then can women do for the slave, when she is herself under the feet of man and shamed into silence? ” - A. Grimke Click on the above quote to watch a 6 minute clip about the Grimkes
LUCRETIA MOTT, LUCY STONE, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, & ELIZABETH BLACKWELL • Mott & Stanton met at the world anti-slavery convention in London, England in 1840 • They were outraged that women were not able to speak at the convention • Began working with abolitionists to gain equality • Stone refused to pay her taxes until she had equal rights • Blackwell was the first female dr. and graduated at the top of her class – above all the men! Click on the above image to watch a 15 minute Crash Course about the Women’s Movement
SENECA FALLS CONVENTION • 1848: Gathering in the small town outside of NY. Supporters launched the movement for the women’s right to vote • Most in attendance were abolitionists, Quakers, other reformers • Others were housewives, farmers, and factory workers. • About 40 men in attendance Click on the below image to watch a 4 minute Hip Hughes about the Convention
DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS • A formal statement of injustices suffered by women, written by the organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention. • Sentiments means beliefs or convictions • Modeled after the DOI • “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal. ” • Listed acts of tyranny by the govt. • Demanded the right to vote • The Right To Vote • Proposed by Stanton and supported by Douglass • However, many felt it was too soon and women should reform “slowly”
THE LEGACY OF SENECA FALLS • “Ain’t I a woman? ” • NY would grant women control over their property and wages. • MA, IN passed more liberal divorce laws. • Blackwell started her own hospital. • Women were eventually awarded the right to vote with the 19 th Amendment in 1920
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