The Antebellum Reform Movements
Aliyah Freeman
Temperance -The movement tried to make people stop drinking or to make them drink less.
- By the 1820s the movement started to advocate for the total abstinence of all alcohol -- that is to urge people to stop drinking completely.
Women's Rights - Women didnt want men giving them secondary roles.
- Women saw taking care of society as an extension of taking care of the home . -Women, like men, during the Era of the Common man wanted more power in society.
Abolition- Tension over the issue of slavery contributed to the Civil War.
Mental hospitals
created mental hospitals, not prisons
Education
Education was only affordable for the wealthy.
people believed the country could only survive if citizens were educated.
-Horace Mann pushed for tax supported schools with required attendance.
Prisons
Prisoners were treated inhumanely were sometimes sent their for being in debt.
-Prisons began focusing more rehabilitating prisoners