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Reform And Reformers. Make sure to play, read, and note take!. Instructions. After viewing the following slides, write only the facts in Red onto your Foldable. Vocabulary: Reform: to bring change Reformer: a person devoted to bringing about reform or change, as in politics or society.
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Reform And Reformers Make sure to play, read, and note take!
Instructions • After viewing the following slides, write only the facts in Red onto your Foldable.
Vocabulary:Reform:to bring changeReformer: a person devoted to bringing about reform or change, as in politics or society
Issue that needs Reform#1 Abolitionism • What issue needs reform?: end slavery immediately.
William Lloyd Garrison (1801-1879) • Slavery undermined republicanvalues. • Immediate emancipation (to become free) • Slavery was a moral, notan economic issue. R2-4
Other White Abolitionists Lewis Tappan James Birney Arthur Tappan
Black Abolitionists • 1845 former slave wrote “The Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass” • 1847 newspaper editor of “The North Star” Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
Sojourner Truth (1787-1883)or Isabella Baumfree 1850 former slave who wrote “The Narrative of Sojourner Truth” R2-10
Harriet Tubman(1820-1913) “Moses” • Helped over 300 slaves to freedom. • $40,000 bounty on her head. • Served as a Union spy during the Civil War.
The Underground Railroad • “Conductor” ==== leader of the escape • “Passengers” ==== escaping slaves • “Tracks” ==== routes • “Trains” ==== farm wagons transporting the escaping slaves • “Depots” ==== safe houses to rest/sleep
Methods Used • Petitions • Newspapers • Mail Campaigns • Violence
Issue that Needs Reform • Temperance Movement: to rid the world of alcohol consumption Frances Willard 1826 - American Temperance Society“Demon Rum!” The Beecher Family
Temperance Movement • Methods Used:
Methods Sermons, rallies, prohibition laws, invading and even storming into pubs and destroying the alcohol and beating the men!
3. Issue that Needs Reform Penitentiary Reform: Better treatment of criminals and people with disabilities or special needs. Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) R1-5/7
Methods Used:Petitions to Congress, separate asylums for the mentally ill, rehabilitation
Issue that Needs Reform • Educational Reform What Needs to be Reformed: Low Literacy, school attendance, equal schooling for children • By 1860 every state offered free public education to whites only.
Horace Mann(1796-1859) “Father of American Education” • children were clay in the hands of teachers • children should be “molded” into a state of perfection • discouraged corporal punishment • established state teacher- training programs R3-6
The McGuffey Eclectic Readers • Used religious stories to teach “American values.” • Teach middle class kids morality and respect for order. • Teach “Protestant ethic” (frugality, hard work, sobriety) R3-8
Women Educators • Troy, NY Female Seminary • curriculum: math, physics, history, geography. • school to train female teachers Emma Willard(1787-1870) Mary Lyons(1797-1849) • 1837 she established Mt. Holyoke [So. Hadley, MA] as the first college for women.
Methods Used • Petitions to congress • Rewarding good behavior • Hiring women as teachers • Making it illegal not to send child to school • Opening more schools
What Needs to be reformed? • Women Unable to vote. • Giving Women citizenship. • Single women could not own her own property. • Married no control over herproperty or her children. • Could not ask for divorce. • Couldn’t make wills, sign a contract, or bring suit in court without her husband’s permission.
Key Reformers The 2nd Great Awakening inspired women to improve society. Lucy Stone Angelina Grimké Sarah Grimké • American Women’sSuffrage Assoc. • edited Woman’s Journal Southern Abolitionists R2-9
What It Would Be Like If Ladies Had Their Own Way! Analyze the cartoon R2-8
Methods Used Petitions, rallies, speaking tours