Post on 27-Dec-2015
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Good day, Scholars!
Add a new entry in your journal – REFORMERS
What is a Reformer?
• Reformer• (noun) • a person devoted to bringing about change in
society.
• American reformers were fighting to perfect human institutions and ideas.
• Many reformers were the products of religious beliefs and frontier democracy who believed in the freedom of the individual.
• They were fighting to perfect the society in which they lived.
ImmigrantsPush factor
Reasons that forced people out of their native land and to a
new world.Pull factor
Reasons immigrants were drawn to America.
Women’s Suffrage (right to vote)
• Women’s Rights• Elizabeth Cady Stanton• Lucretia Mott• Sojourner Truth
• Seneca Falls Convention• Seneca Falls, New York• July 19 and 20, 1848• Fredrick Douglass attended• Discussed Women’s Suffrage movement
Temperence movement
• Campaign to end alcohol consumption
• Heavy drinking was common in 1800’s
• Many men spend $$$ on alcohol, causing women to join the Temperence Movement.
• Business owners also joined the cause. Workers that were drunk were unproductive.
• Some states began banning alcohol.
• By 1855, 13 states had banned the sale of alcohol.
Workers’ rights
• Lowell Mills workers form a labor union.
• In 1836, the mill owners raised the rent on the boarding houses where the women lived.
• 1500 workers went on strike.
• Strikes took place in other parts of the country over the next few years asking for shorter hours and higher wages.
• In 1840, Martin Van Buren passed a law = 10 hour workday for all government workers.
Education Reform
• 1830’s American’s demand better schools.
• Horace Mann sets up first state board of education.
• Mann called public education, “the great equalizer”
• By 1850, many Northern states opened public elementary schools.
• Women still could not attend most colleges.
• Oberlin was the first college to accept women as well as men.
Mental Illness
• 1841
• Dorthea Dix, Sunday school teacher at a women’s jail
• Discovered women held in filthy conditions because of their mental illnesses
• No treatment for mentally ill
• Appealed to the Massachusetts legislature and then traveled all over the country calling for reform.
• Her efforts led to the building of 32 new hospitals.
Abolition (End Slavery)
• William Lloyd Garrison• Published antislavery newspaper “The Liberator”
• Abolitionist speakers• Fredrick Douglass• Sojourner Truth
• Former slaves• Spoke of their own experiences
• Underground Railroad• Harriet Tubman• Estimated between 30,000 and 100,000 slaves
escaped through the Underground Railroad
Groupwork
• Each group will be assigned a type of reform in the 1800’s.
• Read the section in the History Alive book.
• Complete the flow map for your section on your reading notes.
• Choose the person that will represent your historical figure.
• Prepare your “script”.