Social Reformers Chart What is this Movement about

Social Reformers Chart

What is this Movement about? Transcendentalists Abolition Temperance -People should follow their own conscience And peacefully disobey laws they considered to be immoral. Ending Slavery in USA. End Alcohol Abuse Suffrage Getting Women the right to vote. Prison Reform To improve treatment of prisoners and the mentally ill. Public School Critics of child labor wanted to make public school mandatory for all children. The goal was to keep kids in school and out of the factories.

Who is involved? Transcendentalists Abolition -Henry David Thoreau -Ralph Waldo Emerson -Margaret Fuller -Harriet Tubman -William Lloyd Garrison -Frederick Douglas -Sojourner Truth -Harriet Beecher Stowe Temperance Free Square Suffrage Prison Reform -Lucretia Mott -Elizabeth Cady Stanton -Susan B. Anthony -Sojourner Truth Dorothea Dix Public School Horace Mann

What if anything did they change? Transcendentalists Abolition Temperance Suffrage Prison Reform Public School -Invented the concept of Civil Disobedience. -Made people aware of Urban problems -Freed slaves through the underground railroad. -Raised awareness about how slavery was immoral. -Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin -Raised awareness about how alcohol can effect people’s -lives for the worse -They organized the first women’s rights convention -They wrote a Declaration of sentiments similar to the Declaration of independence -They worked to improve the rights of women -Achieved Separation of men and women in Prison -Achieved better conditions for prisoners. By 1918 every state mandated children to attend elementary school. By the mid 1800 s high school education became available in most states and cut the nation’s illiteracy rate in half even if only 4% of American kids aged 14 -17 were enrolled.

Did any major events happen in connection with these movements? Transcendentalists -Thoreau went to jail for refusing to pay taxes that in his opinion supported the spread of slavery. Abolition Temperance Suffrage -Wilmot Proviso -Missouri Compromise -Compromise of 1850 -Kansas Nebraska Act -Bleeding Kansas -Harper’s Ferry -18 th Amendment to the constitution which made the production, sale, & consumption of alcohol illegal in the USA -Seneca Falls Convention -19 th Amendments Prison Reform Public School -------------Free Square --------------Free Square