Reform Era
Jeanette Cazares 7th period
Reform Era Key Events
-The Temperance Movement was the movement that tried to prohibit alcohol because men spent too much money on it and would have bad behavior.
-The Prison Reform was where they saw that prison treatment and conditions should be better and they were very unhealthy and dirty.
-The Education Reform was made to make free public schools.
-Women's Suffrage was made so women could have equality of citizenship and their right to vote.
-The Abolition Movement was made by former slaves who published writings to stop slavery.
Reform: Important Roles
-Women made the Temperance Movement. -Dorothea Dix made the Prison Reform
-Horace Mann ("Father of Education") started the Education Reform.
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony started Women's Suffrage.
-Quakers, William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, and Fredrick Douglass who were former slaves started Abolition.
Reform: Government
-They have taken away women's right to vote, reproductive rights, and the right to work for equal pay. They also created the Declaration of Sentiments which is a document signed in 1848 at the first women's rights convection organized by women.
-The goverment did have to improve for a better justice system to American citizens because they weren't treating all people equally.