The 5 reforms
Brad Richardson
Mental Health reform/ Prison reform
*Wanted to create separate facilities for both
*By the time of her death 100 facilities were established in the U.S.
Temperance
*Movement to reduce the use of alcoholic beverages
*Alcohol linked to sickness, poverty, and breaking up of families
*18th Amendment
Educational Reform
*Greatest reform leader in education was Horace Mann--- Established teacher training programs
*Improved curriculum
*Doubled money Massachusetts spent on schools
* 1st public university--- UNC Chapel Hill-- 1795
Women s Rights
*Throughout the 1800s opportunity for women to become educated increased
*Elizabeth candy Stanton and Lucretia Mott had both been ardent abolitionist
*in 1848, more than 300 women participated in women s rights convention in
Seneca Falls N.Y
Abolition----- Turner
*Most famous revolt was led by Virginia slave Nat Turner
*Turner led 50 followers in a revolt killing 60 whites-- he was caught and executed
Abolition----- William Lloyd Garrison
*Leader was a white radical named William Lloyd Garrison
Abolition----- Fredrick Douglass
*He began an anti---slavery newspaper called North Star
*The start Guided them to the North