Antebellum Reform Movements
The 6 Reform Movements
Mental hospitals
For the ones that couldnt take care of there self or wasnt accepted by people and was not help out by people in the community
Prisions
Prisions were very dark and cold and they were sometimes treated badly.
Education
Education was the heart of all great reform struggles. The cities were growing and they needed more education to learn about things they needed to know.
Temperance
The temperance was one of the largest moral reforms of its time. Hundreds of thousands fought for the prohibition of alcohol, rather than just limited use.
Womens Rights
Women in the Antebellum period was definitely far away from being count as equal. They still wouldnt get full equality until the 1920s
Abolition
Abolition was a movement to abolish slavery and to get rid of it this was more likely people in the north that did not agree or did not believe in slavery and thought it was very mean and cruel