Reform Movement Womens Rights Education Prison Reform Abolition

Reform Movement Women’s Rights Education Prison Reform Abolition Temperance Labor Reform Purpose of the Movement Equal rights for women Raise the quality of education in America and provide equal education for African Americans and disabled. Improve conditions for prisoners, separate mentally ill into separate facility, reduce crowding. End Slavery Limit the consumption of alcohol and reduce domestic violence Improve conditions for factory workers and ban child labor Visual People Events and Terms Women holding up a sign that says “VOTES FOR WOMEN” Seneca Falls Convention, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B Anthony Two story school house with all ages of white children in front. Crowded Jail Cell Invitation to stop an abolitionist speaker Angry women around a sign that says “Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours. ” Boys working in mining Horace Mann - Braille system - Schools for African Americans & disabled Dorthea Dix - Hospitals for mentally ill - Improved conditions for prisoners Frederick Douglass - Harriet Tubman - William Lloyd Garrison Women Prohibition Labor Unions - Ban on child Labor Matching Quote “The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. ” Elizabeth Cady Stanton “It was in making education…compulsory that… the destiny of America… was settled. ” – J. Lowell “Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from rime by harsh measures. ” - Dorthea Dix “Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. ” - William Lloyd Garrison “The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity. ” - Author Unknown “Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty. ” - S. Gompers

Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience…. What is Civil Disobedience? Thoreau’s Tax- He questioned why man would follow a law they deem to be unjust? Thoreau was an Abolitionist and refused to pay his taxes to a government that supported slavery. He was arrested for not paying his taxes and spent a night in jail…. but his question on Man refusing to follow laws he sees unjust has been the basis for many reforms and protest movements throughout time.

Immigration/Migration of Groups in the US. Immigrant Group Quakers Mormons Irish Reasons for Immigration/Migration Contribution to the US Immigrated to the US for Religious Freedom Settled Pennsylvania Migrated to Utah on the Mormon Trail for religious freedom Founded Utah and the Mormon Trail across the US Immigrated to the Northeast part of the US due to the Irish potato Famine Worked in Factories in the NE and settled an Urban lifestyle Immigrated to the NE part of the US due to Natural disaster and poverty in Italy. Worked in Factories in the NE and settled an Urban lifestyle Chinese Immigrated to the US to work Settled in the Western part of the US once the transcontinental railroad was complete. Italians on the Railroad