Michael Quiñones, NBCTwww.socialstudiesguy.com

Reform

Equality

Status

The method of fixing, improving and correcting [change for the better]

The act of leveling and balancing fairness

The rank or grade of a person’s place in society

Suffrage

Nationalism

Sectionalism

Perfectionism

Freedom

Slavery

Abolition

The right, act and privilege of voting

Extreme love for your nation and exaggerated patriotism

Loyalty to certain section of a country [South, North, East, West]

A religious and social movement that sought gender equality and communalism

The right and protection from servitude

The deprivation of freedom

The movement seeking the elimination of slavery

Dorothea Dix taught Sunday School at a prison in Massachusetts during the 1800s.

While there she witnessed appalling conditions for the prisoners.

She saw terrible treatment of mentally ill inmates. After her experience she wrote letters to lawmakers and

crusaded to improve the conditions of prisoners and mentally ill persons across the United States.

As a result conditions and facilities for these people improved.

Horace Mann was a lawmaker from Massachusetts who led the fight for expanded public education.

His legislative leadership led to the expansion of school construction, teacher training and higher teacher pay.

Massachusetts passed a mandatory school attendance law

Because of Mann’s reforms other states expanded public education as well.

As early the 1820s women in England were tired of witnessing the As early the 1820s women in England were tired of witnessing the devastation that alcohol wrought on families and formed devastation that alcohol wrought on families and formed organizations designed to end alcohol consumptions. Not long after, organizations designed to end alcohol consumptions. Not long after, these a temperance movement among American women began in the these a temperance movement among American women began in the U.S. U.S.

TemperanceTemperance==controlcontrol [Women wanted to control the use of “booze.” [Women wanted to control the use of “booze.” Rural men were especially prone to alcoholism because of isolation Rural men were especially prone to alcoholism because of isolation

and depression. Domestic violence was also a problem.and depression. Domestic violence was also a problem. Christian religious women were the most active in trying to have Christian religious women were the most active in trying to have

alcohol banned.alcohol banned. Eventually states began to Eventually states began to prohibit alcoholprohibit alcohol culminating in the culminating in the 1818thth

AmendmentAmendment in 1919. in 1919.

Temperance MovementTemperance Movement

In the 1800s several women fought for property and voting rights for women. The Seneca Falls Convention was the first well known national meeting to discuss and plan women’s rights.

Lucretia Mott-religious Quaker wife of a minister who believed slavery was evil. Favored women’s voting/property rights.

Susan B. Anthony-an “angry” feminist who demanded and fought for voting rights which led to passage of the 19th Amendment.

Sojourner Truth-former slave who spoke out against slavery in speeches and letters. Supported women’s voting and property rights.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton-abolitionist and women’s voting rights supporter emphasized religious conviction.

Utopian Communities Groups of communities gathered together to separate themselves

from the rest of society [Brook Farm, Oneida and New Harmony]. The whole point was to make perfect worlds, perfect societies based

on unique religious beliefs. They believed the outside world was evil and impure.

Shared child raring, shared spouses, shared homes and shared property were strategies they employed.

Many Americans thought these citizens were weird, freakish and unusual because of their beliefs.

The word Utopian means to be pure or perfect without sin influence from evil. The term refers a fictional place created by a English writer named Thomas More who created a perfect place where people were “selfless.”

Joseph Smith-The founder of the Mormon religious movement. He was presented golden tablets in the woods in New York by an angel according to his accounts. He published these tablets into the Book of Mormon that was added to the Mormons’ Bible. He traveled with his followers to different states and was eventually murdered by an angry mob.

Brigham Young-Lead the pilgrimage of Mormons Westward to their permanent home in Utah.

Controversial beliefs included plural marriages and separatism.

Reformers Assignment• Write a letter to someone as if you were one of the reformers [or a

critic/enemy of a reformer] you learned about in the lesson.

• Write to your family, friends, neighbors or the federal/state/local government.

• The purpose of your letter should be to express how much you hate or admire the ideas of any of the reformers in this lesson.

• Your letter should have an opening salutation [Dear John] and a closing salutation [Yours Truly].

• Your letter must include detailed and specific examples the explain why you have the opinion(s) you do.

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