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December 2, 2013

December 2, 2013. EQ- How was this time period marked by reform? Standard- USH 7 Table of Contents- 74. Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears 75. Reform Movements 76. Reformer Biography 77. Reform Poster. Andrew Jackson. Reform Movements of the early 1800’s. Temperance (no alcohol)

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December 2, 2013

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  1. December 2, 2013 • EQ- How was this time period marked by reform? • Standard- USH 7 • Table of Contents- 74. Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears 75. Reform Movements 76. Reformer Biography 77. Reform Poster

  2. Andrew Jackson

  3. Reform Movements of the early 1800’s • Temperance (no alcohol) • Abolition (end slavery) • Public Education • Women’s Rights

  4. Temperance • Stress, urban living, poor water conditions, cheap liquor all caused people to start drinking more • Reform movement started to protect women and children (from abuse and poverty) • First wanted people to drink less, then not at all • 1835- American Temperance Society

  5. Abolition • Most heated reform movement • Starts to get big again in 1830’s • Tries to end slavery • Three groups- • American Colonization Society- freedom then transportation back to Africa • American antislavery Society- led by William Lloyd Garrison- end slavery by any means necessary • Liberty Party- end slavery through legal and political means

  6. Public School • Until 1840’s only wealthy were educated- no public schools, only private • Reformers thought that for democracy to work we needed an educated population • Horace Mann and Henry Barnard- Common School Movement- free public education would create good citizens, unite society, prevent crime and poverty • Their model is used today

  7. Women’s Rights • Women legally and socially inferior- can’t vote or own property • Women were leaders in reform movement but had no rights • Once men got universal right to vote, women started thinking maybe they could too! • Senaca Falls Conference- organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott- meeting of 300 people in NY, drafted the “Declaration of Sentiments”- 11 resolutions for rights for women- 100 men and women signed • Right to vote was #9- Frederick Douglass spoke to encourage people to vote for this

  8. Women’s RightsThe Beginning of Women's Rights.

  9. Seneca Falls • One of the earliest gatherings for women's rights in the United States took place on July 19 and 20, 1848 in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

  10. Seneca Falls • The meeting was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and others and was attended by many famous Americans, including Frederick Douglass.

  11. Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived in Seneca Falls with her husband and children. In 1840, she attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. None of the women delegates to the convention were allowed to speak at the meeting. They were all forced to sit behind a curtain. “We do not propose to petition the legislature to make our husbands just, generous, and courteous, to seat every man at the head of a cradle, and to clothe every woman in male attire. “

  12. Lucretia Mott • At the convention, she met Lucretia Mott, and they agreed that they must do something to help guarantee women basic civil rights.

  13. Stanton and Mott • Lucretia Mott was a Quaker and was angered at the brutality and injustices against enslaved people and by the conditions and injustices in women's lives at the time. Mott was an active abolitionist and opened her home to escaped slaves. • Stanton joined Mott and a handful of other women in Seneca Falls. Together they organized the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls on July 19 and 20. Stanton drafted a Declaration of Sentiments, which she read at the convention. Modeled on the United States Declaration of Independence, Stanton's declaration proclaimed that men and women are created equal. She proposed, among other things, a then-controversial resolution demanding voting rights for women.

  14. The Seneca Falls Conference • At the Seneca Falls convention, Stanton read the "Declaration of Sentiments" to the assembly. This document was based on the Declaration of Independence, and it argued that women and men should be treated equally.

  15. The Declaration of Sentiments • Although the declaration called for a woman's right to vote, women would not be able to vote in the United States until 70 years later in 1920.

  16. Significance of Seneca Falls • By awakening women to the injustices under which they labored , Seneca Falls became the catalyst for future change . • Soon other women's rights conventions were held, and other women would come to the forefront of the movement for political and social equality.

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