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Chapter 8 An Age of Reform

Chapter 8 An Age of Reform. Chapter focus question: HOW DID REFORMERS AND WRITERS INSPIRE CHANGE AND SPARK CONTROVERSY?. I. Improving Society. Section Focus Question: How did Key people bring about reform in education and society?. A. The Reforming Spirit.

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Chapter 8 An Age of Reform

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  1. Chapter 8 An Age of Reform Chapter focus question: HOW DID REFORMERS AND WRITERS INSPIRE CHANGE AND SPARK CONTROVERSY?

  2. I. Improving Society Section Focus Question: How did Key people bring about reform in education and society?

  3. A. The Reforming Spirit • The expansion of democracy in the 1830s encouraged social reform • In the Second Great Awakening, Charles Finney taught that people’s actions determined their salvation • Some reformers established Utopian communities

  4. B. Social Reformers at Work • Alcoholism was a major problem in the U.S., which led to temperance movements and in some cases, calls for prohibition • Prisons were harsh and housed debtors, children, and the mentally ill with violent criminals • Dorothea Dix fought to improve prison conditions, and for the creation of asylums for those with mental illnesses

  5. C. Education Reform • By the early 1800s, Massachusetts was the only state to require public schools • Reformers, such as Horace Mann, argued that public education was necessary to sustain a working democracy • Public schools were slow to develop in the South and the West • African American students were segregated and did not receive the same opportunities as whites

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