Reforms of the 19th Century
Abolition
Join the Abolitionists
Abolitionists are all for ending slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison
An Abolitionists leader.
Fredrikck Douglass
A freed slave who is now an Abolitionist leader.
Nat Turner
Led a rebellion against slave owner that killed 60 whites
Temperance
Joint the American Temperance Society
Temperance was the movement to reduce the use of alcohol.
Women were involved
Alcohol caused men to be violent in their house holds towards their wives and children that is a big reason why women were against alcohol.
The whole idea of Temperance.
''Drinking leads to neglect of duty, moral degradation, and crime.''
The American Temperance Society
The first American Temperance Society was founded on February 13, 1826
Education reform
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We want to make education better!
Horace Mann
Greatest reform leader in education
Public Schools
Wanted to improve public schooling .
More Cildren
More children went to school because it was free.
Womens Rights
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Help us fight to get women rights.
Women were doing everything that men could do.
Lucretia Mott
Just like many men she was an Abolitionist.
Seneca Falls
In 1848 more than 300 women participated in women's right convention.
Mental Health/prison
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We want to create separate facilities for the mental ill and prisoners.
Seperation
We are trying to make mentally challenged patients not have to be with dangerous inmates.
Dorthea Dix
Greatest reform leader for prison and the mental ill.
Saftey
If mentally ill patients were put in jails they would just be chained up to the wall.