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Reform Movements. Objective 2.05. Temperance. Called for moderation of the consumption of alcohol Alcohol caused crime, disorder, and poverty West: used to ease loneliness East: pubs, social activity Some pushed to prohibit alcohol. Prison Reform.
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Reform Movements Objective 2.05
Temperance • Called for moderation of the consumption of alcohol • Alcohol caused crime, disorder, and poverty • West: used to ease loneliness • East: pubs, social activity • Some pushed to prohibit alcohol
Prison Reform • Regardless of crime, inmates were crowded in together • Wanted to provide better environments • Rehabilitation of prisoners also came into play with the introduction of penitentiaries
Education Reform • Push for government-funded schools to be opened for all citizens • Massachusetts was first to pass this • Leadership of Mass. movement was Horace Mann • Calvin Wiley was leader in NC
Treatment of Mentally Handicapped • Reform of mental hospitals • School teacher, Dorothea Dix, was the leader of the reform • Began reform after she taught a Sunday school class in a mental facility and was appalled
Women’s Movement • Pushed for women’s voting rights • Seneca Falls Convention (1848): beginning of organized movement • Led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Utopian Communities • Society tended to corrupt human nature • Wanted to separate and form own utopia—an ideal society • Included cooperative living and absence of private property
Brook Farm—became most popular in Mass., est. by George Ripley • Shakers—not successful, didn’t believe in having children