Reformers of the 19th century
Monica
Temperance
- Movement to reduce the use of alcoholic beverages.
Alcohol linked to sickness, poverty, and breakup of families.
By the mid 1800's, many states outlawed alcohol.
Prison reform
- U.S. gives the most extended liberty... prisons in the U.S. offer the spectacle of the most complete.
Dorothea
- Greatest reformer for prisoners and mentally ill.
- wanted to create separate facilities for both.
- 100 facilities were created before her death.
Education Reform
wanted to improve public schools.
- No attendance acquirement (except for Ma. and Vt.)
- schools not divided by grade levels .
- established teacher training programs.
- improved curriculum.
- doubled money Massachusetts spent on schools.
Horace Mann the greatest reform leader in education.
Women's Rights
- Throughout the 1800's opportunity for women to Become educated increased.
More than 300 women participated in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
Ardent Abolitionists.
Oberlin College
the first coed institution.
Abolition
- 1820's Abolitioist movement to free African Americans