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Essential Question. What were the important reform movements of the early 1800s?. Reforming Society. Second Great Awakening. Revivals Preachers motivated listeners to become socially active. Benevolent Societies. Preached Christian values Tried to help solve social problems.

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  1. Essential Question • What were the important reform movements of the early 1800s?

  2. Reforming Society

  3. Second Great Awakening • Revivals • Preachers motivated listeners to become socially active

  4. Benevolent Societies • Preached Christian values • Tried to help solve social problems

  5. Temperance Societies • Widespread alcoholism • Temperance = against consumption of alcohol

  6. American Temperance Union • Groups that pushed for laws to prohibit the sale of alcohol

  7. Prison Reform • Cleaner and safer facilities • Emphasis on rehabilitation • Criminals can become good citizens

  8. Dorothea Dix • Prison reform • Special institutions for the mentally ill

  9. Educational Reform • Public education – government should fund schools open to all citizens • Horace Mann

  10. Quote, Horace Mann “The establishment of a republican government, without well-appointed and efficient means for the universal education of the people, is the most rash and foolhardy experiment ever tried by man . . . Woe to the republic that rests upon no better foundations than ignorance, selfishness and passion!”

  11. Education for Women • Emma Willard – girls’ boarding school in Vermont • Mary Lyon – Mount Holyoke (first college for women)

  12. Elizabeth Blackwell • First woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S.

  13. Women’s Rights Idea that women have an important role to play in society

  14. Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Organized movement for women’s suffrage

  15. Susan B. Anthony • Leader in the women’s suffrage movement

  16. Seneca Falls Convention • Beginning of an organized women’s movement

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