Reform Movement
By: Shelbie Pittman
Abolition
The abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and end of racial discrimination and segregation. Abolitionist ideas became increasingly prominent in Northern churches and politics beginning in the 1830s. The movement didn't coalesce into a militant crusade until the 1830s. One of the leaders of this movement was Fredrick Douglass. William Lloyd Garrison began publishing The Liberator.
Temperance
The movement started to solve growing problems. This movement connected many other reform movements. This movement was in the early 1800s. One of the leaders in this movement was Lyman Beecher.
Education
This reform movement won widespread support for effort to make education available to children. Wealthy families sent their kids to private schools of hired tutors at school. Citizens voted to pay taxes to build better schools. Horace Mann was a leader of this movement and he was a great educational reformer.
Women's rights
The first gathering was devoted women's rights it was held in July 19-20,1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. Women's rights helped women be able to vote. Millions of women took part of this. Susan B. Anthony was one of the leaders in this movement.