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Ch . 8.2

Ch . 8.2. A Reforming Society. Reformers Value Education. Most American children were homeschooled The American Spelling Book was the most popular school book Reformers thought the education wasn’t good enough

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Ch . 8.2

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  1. Ch. 8.2 A ReformingSociety

  2. Reformers Value Education • Most American children were homeschooled • The American Spelling Book was the most popular school book • Reformers thought the education wasn’t good enough • Public School Movement: Reformers sought to establish a system of tax supported public schools. • Both genders learned from the same books

  3. Public School Reform Movement • Horace Mann: One of the greatest school reformers • Poor family • Inadequate education first hand • Senate of Massachusetts • Created State Board Of Education • Resigned from senate in 1837

  4. Reform Movement Cont. • Women petitioned their legislature. • Pro public Schools • Became teachers • Catharine Beecher and Emma Willard established schools for women • Connecticut, Ohio, New York • Elizabeth Blackwell and Ann Preston helped establish medical training for women by the 1850’s

  5. Catharine Beecher Elizabeth Blackwell Emma Willard Ann Preston

  6. Helping the ill and the imprisoned • Dorothea Dix Campaigns for change • 1841 Dorothea Dix started teaching Sunday school in prisons • She went to the legislature and told them about all the horrors that were happening in the prisons • They housed criminals with the mentally ill • Started campaigns for people to build humane hospitals for the mentally ill • Her campaign was remarkably successful

  7. Cont. • The prison reform movement is sometimes called the penitentiary movement • Two types of penitentiaries were proposed by reformers • Pennsylvania System • Advocated by the Philadelphia Society for alleviating the miseries of public prisons • Expensive to run • Eastern State • Prisoners urged to repent while in complete solitary confinement

  8. Cont. • Auburn prison • In New York in the 1820s • Prisoners worked with one another during the day in strict silence • Prisoners slept individually at night • Many American prisons followed this model

  9. The temperance movement • An effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems created by it • Some reformers believed in prohibition • Created flyers warning families that wasting money would cut back on providing food for family • Neal Dow, mayor of Portland, Maine, in 1851 had worldwide reputation for lectures about alcohol abuse • Maine law – restricted the sale of alcohol • Most states passed this law

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