Social Reform

Social Reform

A TIME OF SOCIAL CHANGE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY.

The Second Great Awakening

• This was a revival of strong religious feelings.

• Many religious groups held outdoor religious services.

• Some of these groups saw social reform as part of God's plan.

• This new religious movement centered on reform and repairing moral injustices.

• The second great awakening played an important role in stirring reform movements to end slavery, reform prison, and ban alcoholic beverages.

Multiple Select

The second great awakening played an important role in stirring what reform movements? Check all that apply.

• Abolitionist

• Temperance

• Education

• Women's Rights

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This was a revival of religious feeling in the 1800's that led to Social Reform movements.

• The First Great Awakening

• Social Awakening

• The Second Great Awakening

• The Religious Awakening

Reform and Treatment for the Mentally Ill.

• In the 1800's there was very little knowledge on how to care for the mentally ill.

• Many mentally ill patients were locked in unheated rooms, chained to their beds and beaten into obedience.

• Dorothea Dix: She led the fight for better treatment and conditions for the mentally ill.

• She toured many hospitals that housed the mentally ill and reported her findings to the Massachusetts state legislature.

• Here push to make changes in Mental hospitals and prisons were successful.

Multiple Choice

She led the fight for better treatment and conditions for the mentally ill.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Dorothea Dix

• Lucretia Mott

• Sojourner Truth

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Many mentally ill patients were locked in unheated rooms, chained to their beds and beaten into obedience.

• True

• False

Temperance Movement

• Many Americans worried that drinking alcohol ruined people's:

• health

• disrupted family life

• led to unemployment

• promoted ungodly behavior

• In 1826, the American Temperance Society was founded.

• Its objective was to ban all alcohol drinks; total abstinence.

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The goal of the Temperance movement was to allow all alcohol drinks.

• True

• False

Education Reform

• Before the Industrial Revolution, most American children received little formal schooling.

• Wealthy children were taught reading, writing, arithmetic, and foreign languages.

• Horace Mann of Massachusetts fought to provide free public schooling to every child.

• He is known as the Father of Public Education.

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Multiple Choice

Who fought to provide free public schooling to every child?

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Horace Mann

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Multiple Choice

What was Horace Mann known as?

• Father of Manifest Destiny

• Father of College Education

• Father of Public Education

ABOLITIONISTS MOVEMENT

• An abolitionist believed that slavery was morally wrong and wanted to end it.

• The following are people who fought to end slavery in the United States.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe: She wrote a book called "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that depicted the evils of slavery and stirred the public conscience of the North.

Multiple Choice

What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write that exposed the evils of slavery in the South?

• Stowe Against Slavery

• The Evils of the South

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Uncle Thomas's Cabin

Multiple Select

An abolitionist believed that slavery was morally wrong and wanted to end it.

• True

• False

ABOLITIONISTS CONTINUED...

• William Lloyd Garrison: He had an abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator" that spoke out against slavery.

• Frederick Douglass: He also had an abolitionist newspaper called "The North Star".

• Harriet Tubman: She was a famous conductor of the underground railroad which was a network of trails out of the South to freedom to the North.

Multiple Choice

A famous conductor of the underground railroad which was a network of trails out of the South to freedom to the North.

• Harriet Tubman

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Frederick Douglass

• Sojourner Truth

Multiple Choice

He also had an abolitionist newspaper called "The North Star".

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Tubman

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Multiple Choice

He had an abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator" that spoke out against slavery.

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Sojourner Truth

WOMEN'S RIGHT MOVEMENT

• In the middle 1800's, women were generally excluded from public life and left in charge of the home and children.

• Women were not given equal rights, they were not allowed to vote, serve on juries, and hold public office.

• Socially, women were expected to care for their home and children and could not attend college.

• Economically, once a woman got married, her husband usually took control of her income and property. Women were paid less then men for the same work.

• Some women began to see this lack of equality and opportunity as a serious problem that also needed reform.

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Women were not given equal rights, they were not allowed to: (Check all that apply)

• Vote

• Hold Office

• Serve on Juries

Women's Rights Movement Continued...

• Many women began to organize themselves to fight for women's rights.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton: She fought for women's rights and organized The Seneca Falls Convention which was a rally to get more rights for women. She was also the author of the "Declaration of Sentiments".

• Declaration of Sentiments: This document was modeled after the Declaration of Independence.

• The Declaration of Sentiments called on men not to withhold a woman's rights, take her property, or refuse her the right to vote.

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Multiple Choice

She fought for women's rights and organized The Seneca Falls Convention which was a rally to get more rights for women.

• Lucretia Mott

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Multiple Choice

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was also the author of what document?

• Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of Sentiments

• Declaration of Women's Rights

Multiple Choice

The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after which famous document?

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Declaration of Independence

Women's Rights Movement Continued...

• Lucretia Mott: She helped Elizabeth Cady Stanton organize the Seneca Falls Convention.

• Susan B. Anthony: She worked to fight against Temperance and she also fought to women's voting rights; otherwise known as women's suffrage. (the right to vote for women)

• Susan B. Anthony became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

• Sojourner Truth: She was an escaped slave that worked for women's rights and fought to end slavery.

Multiple Choice

She worked to fight against Temperance and she also fought to women's voting rights.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Susan B. Anthony

• Lucretia Mott

• Sojourner Truth

Multiple Choice

She was an escaped slave that worked for women's rights and fought to end slavery.

• Lucretia Mott

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

Multiple Choice

This means right to vote for women.

• Suffrage

• Abolitionist

• Temperance