1 / 7

Reforming American Society in the Mid-1800s: Education, Temperance, Workers' Rights & Social Reforms

Discover how the Second Great Awakening inspired movements for education, temperance, workers' rights, and care for the needy in mid-1800s America. Explore Horace Mann's impact on public education and the establishment of ideal communities striving for utopia.

bbrigman
Download Presentation

Reforming American Society in the Mid-1800s: Education, Temperance, Workers' Rights & Social Reforms

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Chapter 14, Section 3“Reforming American Society” Main Idea – In the mid-1800s, several reform movements worked to improve American education and society.

  2. A Second Great Awakening Teaching at Revivals Revivals Effect on Reform Americans began to believe they could act to make things better; religion became important to many Americans again • Americans should improve themselves and their society, and they should help others

  3. Temperance • a campaign to stop people from consuming alcohol • many male workers would spend much of their paychecks on drinking • women and business owners supported this movement

  4. Workers’ Rights • workers organized into unions and used strikes to gain better working conditions, better hours and higher wages

  5. Education • Horace Mann worked to improve public education • New schools and colleges offered some limited opportunities for women and African Americans

  6. Care for the Needy • Improvements in caring for the mentally ill and building of new hospitals nation-wide • Schools are created for the deaf and blind • Conditions in jails were improved (separating children and adults; rehabilitating prisoners)

  7. Ideal Communities • Aimed to create a “utopia” – a perfect world • People were given food and other necessities for living in exchange for work • None were very successful

More Related