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Reformers

Reformers. Immigrants. Push factor Reasons that forced people out of their native land and to a new world. Pull factor Reasons immigrants were drawn to America. Women’s Suffrage. Seneca Falls Convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott Seneca Falls, New York July 19 and 20, 1848

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Reformers

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  1. Reformers

  2. Immigrants Push factor Reasons that forced people out of their native land and to a new world. Pull factor Reasons immigrants were drawn to America.

  3. Women’s Suffrage • Seneca Falls Convention • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Lucretia Mott • Seneca Falls, New York • July 19 and 20, 1848 • Fredrick Douglass attended • Discussed Women’s Suffrage movement • Suffrage - the right to vote

  4. Temperence movement • Campaign to end alcohol consumption • Heavy drinking was common in 1800’s • Many men spend $$$ on alcohol, causing women to join the Temperence Movement. • Business owners also joined the cause. Workers that were drunk were unproductive. • Some states began banning alcohol. • By 1855, 13 states had banned the sale of alcohol.

  5. Workers’ rights • Lowell Mills workers form a labor union. • In 1836, the mill owners raised the rent on the boarding houses where the women lived. • 1500 workers went on strike. • Strikes took place in other parts of the country over the next few years asking for shorter hours and higher wages. • In 1840, Martin Van Buren enacted a 10 hour workday for all government workers.

  6. education • 1830’s American’s demand better schools. • Horace Mann sets up first state board of education. • Mann called public education, “the great equalizer” • By 1850, many Northern states opened public elementary schools. • Women still could not attend most colleges. • Oberlin was the first college to accept women as well as men.

  7. Mental Illness • 1841 • Dorthea Dix, Sunday school teacher at a women’s jail • Discovered women held in filthy conditions because of their mental illnesses • No treatment for mentally ill • Appealed to the Massachusetts legislature and then traveled all over the country calling for reform. • Her efforts led to the building of 32 new hospitals.

  8. Abolition • Wanted to abolish (end) slavery • William Lloyd Garrison • Published antislavery newspaper “The Liberator” • Abolitionist speakers • Fredrick Douglass • Sojourner Truth • Former slaves • Spoke of their own experiences • Underground Railroad • Harriet Tubman • Estimated between 30,000 and 100,000 slaves escaped through the Underground Railroad

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