The education reform movement was a movement that changed the classroom and also allowed women to teach, as well as making education state sponsored. It was a movement to improve education, and to reduce the expense of it so that more people could be educated. Horace Mann, the secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, was a significant person who contributed to the movement. He believed education was the "great equalizer of the conditions of men" and through his arguments and ideas, he won approval for building public schools, and most states adopted a version of the system he built in Massachusetts.
The temperance reform was targeted toward he alcohol consumption in America. The per capita alcohol consumption was outrageous, which often caused cases of violence, crime and arrests. This was even more common I. Urban areas. The temperance movement used many convincing factors such as religion and press in order to suppress alcohol consumption. It was very successful, since toward its end, the alcohol consumption in the United States had halved.
Add-on: A significant person involved in the temperance reform was Lyman Beecher, father of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". He was a Presbyterian minister and also was significant in the second Great Awakening. He was the co-founder of American Temperance Society.
The asylum movement, originating in Massachusetts, was fueled by evangelist Dorothea Dix, who was horrified by the conditions she saw toward women in insane asylums. In a study conducted by herself, Dix was witness to the treatment of women in the institutions, which she described as being less than humane and extreme. She pushed for reform to be made in the Massachusetts state legislature which proved successful, and a state asylum was established with numerous others modeled after it. Through Dix's efforts to publicize the movement, twenty-eight states had established public institutions by 1860.
The religious reform movement swept across the United States in the 1800s. Charles G. Finney, was one of the people who promoted and preached the doctrine of "perfectionism," declaring that it was possible for all Christians to understand God's will and become "as perfect as god". This reform impacted the middle class the most and led to most other reforms, as it spread the beliefs such as that all should be given equal chance and opportunity, leading to the education reform, and that misfits such as criminals, the poor and the insane would improve under good circumstances, leading to the asylum and prison reforms. It also encouraged people to perfect themselves as much as possible, leading to the temperance movement.
Throughout the early years of American history, great advances were made in freedom for a variety of social groups. Perpetually excluded, though, were women, who in the early nineteenth century were forced to forfeit all property and legal rights upon marriage and possessed no political power. Resistance to this treatment began during the colonial period, but involvement greatly increased in the 1840s, particularly among the growing middle class. Through a series of lectures, conventions, and protests, women across the United States gradually attracted national attention and with it more rights, culminating with suffrage through the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. One of the leaders of this movement was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a middle-class woman from New York. She became known for her role during the Seneca Falls Convention, during which she drafted the Declaration of Sentiments, a predominant expression of the desires of women of the time.
The abolition of slavery movement strived to discourage and ban slavery, and free all enslaved African American people. Slaves, dominantly in the south, addressed agricultural and house work, and were not treated very well. Freed slaves, escaped slaves, and passionate white people in the south strongly advocated the emancipation of slaves and end of slavery. One leader of this movement was William Lloyd Garrison. He published an anti-slavery journal called "The Liberator", and founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.
One reform movement was the abolitionist movement. The movement was a movement that attempted to ban slavery in the U.S. By 1800, all northern states had emancipated slaves or had gradual emancipation in progress. However, poor treatment of slaves in the South caused much argument. The three main advocate groups of abolitionism were white activists, religious reformers, and free African Americans. Angelina and Sarah Grimke were two sisters who were outspoken opponents of slavery.
One reform movement was the Education movement. This movement changed the way we taught our youth in America. Classroom went from basic large age ranged to more complex and age segregated. An important person in this movement was Susan Cunningham who was a school teacher in Pensylvania at the time. She traveled around making promotions for education reform and promoted women teachers. The major difference of the movement was changing schools into public schools paid for by the government. She discretized schools and made them more easily accessible for children. Her efforts led to a major increase in attendance and intelligence in schools in her area.
The Education Reform was one of the major reforms in the 1800s. It overall improved the quality of education in the US. This included more public education and better textbooks, as well as improved teachers. Classrooms would be split more carefully by age and ability, instead of mostly randomly, and general Christian values were taught. Also, women were now allowed to teach, which tied in with the Women’s Rights Reform as well. One of these women was Catharine Beecher, who was a teacher and an important activist on the matter of women teaching. She wrote a textbook and stressed the importance of kindergarten for younger children.
The Women’s Rights Movement was a reform movement of the 19th century that focused on improving the political, legal, and social conditions of women in the United States. Before the movement started in the 1840’s, a woman in the early American colonies had a status generally below that of men. They had no legal rights, such as the right to vote or hold office, denied the ability to own property, and in the workplace, they were often denied occupations that were not seen as “ladylike”. Furthermore they were subject entirely to the will of the husband, who was the undisputed source of authority in the family and presumed over all of its aspects. Reformers, such as Sarah and Angelina Grimké, believed that these laws and customs were unfair and oppressive to women. The Grimké sisters were big leaders in promoting women’s rights; they held discussions, organized rallies, and published writings such as Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women that helped to spread their beliefs. As a result of their and other reformer’s work, state laws were soon passed that favored women, and eventually in 1920, women were granted universal suffrage by the 19th amendment.
Faragher, John M., Mari J. Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, and Susan H. Armitage. Out of Many: A History of the American People; AP Edition. Sixth ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001. Print.
An American reform movement of the nineteenth century was the abolition movement. As its name implies, this movement’s goal was the abolition of slavery in the United States. Different interest groups involved in the movement had different ideas on how this was to be accomplished, however. In 1817, a group of northern religious reformers founded the American Colonization Society. This organization contrived to send slaves to Liberia, a colony (now country) in West Africa created for this purpose. The colonization of and reintroduction of African Americans in Africa was not supported by most African American abolitionists, though. Most black abolitionists supported the complete and immediate emancipation of the slave population coupled with social equality for all African Americans. This radical idea was not advocated by the majority of white abolitionists. Many such abolitionists shared the belief that slavery was a sin for southerners to reject, but not because they regarded African Americans as equals. A prominent African American abolitionist was Frederick Douglass. A former slave, Douglass escaped slavery in 1838 and became involved in the abolition movement. In 1845, Douglass published his book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself that had a deep impact on American society by enumerating the horrors of slavery. In 1848, Douglass started writing the North Star a weekly abolitionist publication. Besides writing, Douglass also gave speeches denouncing slavery. He even spoke in places as far away as England, Ireland, and Scotland. During the Civil War, Douglass was consulted by Abraham Lincoln and helped recruit Union soldiers. After the war, he continued demanding equal rights for African Americans and also became involved in the Women’s Suffrage Movement.
Sources: Faragher, John M., Mari J. Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, and Susan H. Armitage. Out of Many: A History of the American People; AP Edition. Sixth ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001. Print. "Frederick Douglass." Africans in America. PBS, 1999. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.
One reform movement that was important was the Women's Right movement. This reform was centered on the equality of men and women. The people involved in this reform wanted to make women and men equal in education, in the workplace, and politically. This reform movement led to suffrage for all women in 1869. Some of the important women involved in this reform were Susan B. Anthony and Elizibeth Stanton, who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls convention.
One of the reform movements of the 1840's was the religious reform movement. This reform was centered around the rise of "perfectionism", a new sect of Christianity. The person who started and popularized perfectionism was Charles G. Finney. Finney was a preacher who developed perfectionism and preached around the country to spread it. Perfectionism struck a chord in the middle class. Religious reform not only changed religion in America, but also played apart in the other reforms as well.
Religious reform was the revival of religion across America. People wanted a purer form of Christianity and thus different religions sprouted from Christianity like Mormonism. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a Unitarian who believed that through having faith in ones religion they would eventually reach perfection. Emerson supported transcendentalism, the belief that the truth would be revealed through observing nature.
In the 1820’s a movment against prostition began. Pre 19th century prostition had been seen as a neccisary evil and tolarated. The movement in a large part blamed alchol for prostion but the question of who was at fault, the women or their customors, divided the oppions of Men and Women. Not suprisingly men took the viewpoint that it was the prostituits who lead men to sin. Women meanwhile blamed men for abandoning women that they had lead to abandon their values. Many women took the view point that prostetiots needed moral and religious education although since prostioin had less to do with a failure of morals and more to do with economic needs this movment may not have been that sucessful. A far more sucedful movment was lead by Lydia Finney, who was the president of the Moral reform society, which was founded in 1831 and had 555 aflients throughout the county in 1840. The Society Organized charities to help prosititutes and helped to provide alternitive work for them. They attempted to stem the flow of cousomers by priniting the name of prostitutes patron in the papers. They also suceded in making penalties againt both prositiutes and their empolyers in New York. I used our book and http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/collections/gender-legal-history/glh-summary.cfm?glhID=65303CB5-BA82-0CA3-1B84FECB17538D51 as sources.
The Temperance movement was aimed to reduce and eventually prohibit the consumption of alcohol. Drinking in America had begun to cause problems in that men drank often on the job, creating unsafe working environments, and potential violence in homes. Members of Temperance movements used this societal issues to urge American citizens from consuming alcohol. A specific group that did so was the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance, which begun their movement in 1826. One key member was Lyman Beecher, who was a co-founder of the movement. Beecher was a church minister who believed it was morally wrong to consume alcohol, and as part of the his leadership in the Second Great Awakening, Beecher contributed greatly to the Temperance movement efforts.
As mentioned above, one of the key reform movements in this time period was the temperance movement. It advertised the banning of any alcohol, and was greatly supported by the Catholic community. An unmentioned member of this reform was Martha Washington, who hosted her own appropriately-named Martha Washington Society. It was significant as a branch of female support in the male-dominated society. She provided organizations where women could work together to support causes such as temperance; they were successful in being effective and important in their contributions to the movement.
Womens rights. The womens rights movement was epitomized in the efforts of women across america to gain suffrage, equal treatment under the law, and in society. One very important leader of the womens rights movement was Susan B. Anthony. She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President. She also co-founded the women's rights journal, The Revolution.
One man who was very important to the reforms of the early 1800's was Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Later Day Saints. In 1830 Smith founded the predominant branch of Mormonism which exists to this day. He strongly believed his ideas on how to religiously lead people were correct. Through his sermons, Smith cultivated a large following of people that banded together as a community. When persecuted for their 'strange' beliefs, the Church of Latter Day Saints moved westward together. And when Smith was murdered in 1844 by an angry mob, the church still stayed together. Smith was able to establish a strong following that has survived to present times exemplifying his influence on religion.
Another very important reform movement was the temperance movement. Temperance was where a person pledged to abstain from the consumption of alcohol for the rest of their lives. This movement was supported because drinking used up much of a families income and caused destructive behavior. The Temper acne movement caused a drop in alcohol consumption by over two thirds. The temperance movement was mainly supported by women, who didn't drink themselves but wanted their husbands to stop.
A important movement was the Religious movement because most of the other movements including the Temperance movement came out of it. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a major player in the Religious movement. He believed in transcendentalism, that all truth will be discovered from observing nature.
An important movement during this time was the alcohol reform. During this time, people were drinking 6 times as much an average than people today: children as young as 6 were also drinking. Important people who tried to perform a reform movement on the issue were Theobald Matthew and Jabez Tunnicliff.
An important movement during this time was the abolition movement. At the time, many Northern states had already abolished slavery. However, in the southern states it was still legal. Someone who was a key person in this movement was Harriet Tubman. She was a former runaway slave who helped slaves escape slavery with the underground railroad.
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ReplyDeleteThe education reform movement was a movement that changed the classroom and also allowed women to teach, as well as making education state sponsored. It was a movement to improve education, and to reduce the expense of it so that more people could be educated. Horace Mann, the secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, was a significant person who contributed to the movement. He believed education was the "great equalizer of the conditions of men" and through his arguments and ideas, he won approval for building public schools, and most states adopted a version of the system he built in Massachusetts.
DeleteThe temperance reform was targeted toward he alcohol consumption in America. The per capita alcohol consumption was outrageous, which often caused cases of violence, crime and arrests. This was even more common I. Urban areas. The temperance movement used many convincing factors such as religion and press in order to suppress alcohol consumption. It was very successful, since toward its end, the alcohol consumption in the United States had halved.
ReplyDeleteAdd-on: A significant person involved in the temperance reform was Lyman Beecher, father of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". He was a Presbyterian minister and also was significant in the second Great Awakening. He was the co-founder of American Temperance Society.
DeleteThe asylum movement, originating in Massachusetts, was fueled by evangelist Dorothea Dix, who was horrified by the conditions she saw toward women in insane asylums. In a study conducted by herself, Dix was witness to the treatment of women in the institutions, which she described as being less than humane and extreme. She pushed for reform to be made in the Massachusetts state legislature which proved successful, and a state asylum was established with numerous others modeled after it. Through Dix's efforts to publicize the movement, twenty-eight states had established public institutions by 1860.
ReplyDeleteThe religious reform movement swept across the United States in the 1800s. Charles G. Finney, was one of the people who promoted and preached the doctrine of "perfectionism," declaring that it was possible for all Christians to understand God's will and become "as perfect as god". This reform impacted the middle class the most and led to most other reforms, as it spread the beliefs such as that all should be given equal chance and opportunity, leading to the education reform, and that misfits such as criminals, the poor and the insane would improve under good circumstances, leading to the asylum and prison reforms. It also encouraged people to perfect themselves as much as possible, leading to the temperance movement.
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ReplyDeleteThroughout the early years of American history, great advances were made in freedom for a variety of social groups. Perpetually excluded, though, were women, who in the early nineteenth century were forced to forfeit all property and legal rights upon marriage and possessed no political power. Resistance to this treatment began during the colonial period, but involvement greatly increased in the 1840s, particularly among the growing middle class. Through a series of lectures, conventions, and protests, women across the United States gradually attracted national attention and with it more rights, culminating with suffrage through the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. One of the leaders of this movement was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a middle-class woman from New York. She became known for her role during the Seneca Falls Convention, during which she drafted the Declaration of Sentiments, a predominant expression of the desires of women of the time.
The abolition of slavery movement strived to discourage and ban slavery, and free all enslaved African American people. Slaves, dominantly in the south, addressed agricultural and house work, and were not treated very well. Freed slaves, escaped slaves, and passionate white people in the south strongly advocated the emancipation of slaves and end of slavery. One leader of this movement was William Lloyd Garrison. He published an anti-slavery journal called "The Liberator", and founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.
ReplyDeleteOne reform movement was the abolitionist movement. The movement was a movement that attempted to ban slavery in the U.S. By 1800, all northern states had emancipated slaves or had gradual emancipation in progress. However, poor treatment of slaves in the South caused much argument. The three main advocate groups of abolitionism were white activists, religious reformers, and free African Americans. Angelina and Sarah Grimke were two sisters who were outspoken opponents of slavery.
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ReplyDeleteOne reform movement was the Education movement. This movement changed the way we taught our youth in America. Classroom went from basic large age ranged to more complex and age segregated. An important person in this movement was Susan Cunningham who was a school teacher in Pensylvania at the time. She traveled around making promotions for education reform and promoted women teachers. The major difference of the movement was changing schools into public schools paid for by the government. She discretized schools and made them more easily accessible for children. Her efforts led to a major increase in attendance and intelligence in schools in her area.
ReplyDeleteThe Education Reform was one of the major reforms in the 1800s. It overall improved the quality of education in the US. This included more public education and better textbooks, as well as improved teachers. Classrooms would be split more carefully by age and ability, instead of mostly randomly, and general Christian values were taught. Also, women were now allowed to teach, which tied in with the Women’s Rights Reform as well. One of these women was Catharine Beecher, who was a teacher and an important activist on the matter of women teaching. She wrote a textbook and stressed the importance of kindergarten for younger children.
ReplyDeleteThe Women’s Rights Movement was a reform movement of the 19th century that focused on improving the political, legal, and social conditions of women in the United States. Before the movement started in the 1840’s, a woman in the early American colonies had a status generally below that of men. They had no legal rights, such as the right to vote or hold office, denied the ability to own property, and in the workplace, they were often denied occupations that were not seen as “ladylike”. Furthermore they were subject entirely to the will of the husband, who was the undisputed source of authority in the family and presumed over all of its aspects. Reformers, such as Sarah and Angelina Grimké, believed that these laws and customs were unfair and oppressive to women. The Grimké sisters were big leaders in promoting women’s rights; they held discussions, organized rallies, and published writings such as Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women that helped to spread their beliefs. As a result of their and other reformer’s work, state laws were soon passed that favored women, and eventually in 1920, women were granted universal suffrage by the 19th amendment.
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DeleteFaragher, John M., Mari J. Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, and Susan H. Armitage. Out of Many: A History of the American People; AP Edition. Sixth ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001. Print.
An American reform movement of the nineteenth century was the abolition movement. As its name implies, this movement’s goal was the abolition of slavery in the United States. Different interest groups involved in the movement had different ideas on how this was to be accomplished, however. In 1817, a group of northern religious reformers founded the American Colonization Society. This organization contrived to send slaves to Liberia, a colony (now country) in West Africa created for this purpose. The colonization of and reintroduction of African Americans in Africa was not supported by most African American abolitionists, though. Most black abolitionists supported the complete and immediate emancipation of the slave population coupled with social equality for all African Americans. This radical idea was not advocated by the majority of white abolitionists. Many such abolitionists shared the belief that slavery was a sin for southerners to reject, but not because they regarded African Americans as equals.
ReplyDeleteA prominent African American abolitionist was Frederick Douglass. A former slave, Douglass escaped slavery in 1838 and became involved in the abolition movement. In 1845, Douglass published his book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself that had a deep impact on American society by enumerating the horrors of slavery. In 1848, Douglass started writing the North Star a weekly abolitionist publication. Besides writing, Douglass also gave speeches denouncing slavery. He even spoke in places as far away as England, Ireland, and Scotland. During the Civil War, Douglass was consulted by Abraham Lincoln and helped recruit Union soldiers. After the war, he continued demanding equal rights for African Americans and also became involved in the Women’s Suffrage Movement.
Sources:
DeleteFaragher, John M., Mari J. Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, and Susan H. Armitage. Out of Many: A History of the American People; AP Edition. Sixth ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001. Print.
"Frederick Douglass." Africans in America. PBS, 1999. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.
One reform movement that was important was the Women's Right movement. This reform was centered on the equality of men and women. The people involved in this reform wanted to make women and men equal in education, in the workplace, and politically. This reform movement led to suffrage for all women in 1869. Some of the important women involved in this reform were Susan B. Anthony and Elizibeth Stanton, who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls convention.
ReplyDeleteOne of the reform movements of the 1840's was the religious reform movement. This reform was centered around the rise of "perfectionism", a new sect of Christianity. The person who started and popularized perfectionism was Charles G. Finney. Finney was a preacher who developed perfectionism and preached around the country to spread it. Perfectionism struck a chord in the middle class.
ReplyDeleteReligious reform not only changed religion in America, but also played apart in the other reforms as well.
Religious reform was the revival of religion across America. People wanted a purer form of Christianity and thus different religions sprouted from Christianity like Mormonism. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a Unitarian who believed that through having faith in ones religion they would eventually reach perfection. Emerson supported transcendentalism, the belief that the truth would be revealed through observing nature.
ReplyDeleteIn the 1820’s a movment against prostition began. Pre 19th century prostition had been seen as a neccisary evil and tolarated. The movement in a large part blamed alchol for prostion but the question of who was at fault, the women or their customors, divided the oppions of Men and Women. Not suprisingly men took the viewpoint that it was the prostituits who lead men to sin. Women meanwhile blamed men for abandoning women that they had lead to abandon their values. Many women took the view point that prostetiots needed moral and religious education although since prostioin had less to do with a failure of morals and more to do with economic needs this movment may not have been that sucessful. A far more sucedful movment was lead by Lydia Finney, who was the president of the Moral reform society, which was founded in 1831 and had 555 aflients throughout the county in 1840. The Society Organized charities to help prosititutes and helped to provide alternitive work for them. They attempted to stem the flow of cousomers by priniting the name of prostitutes patron in the papers. They also suceded in making penalties againt both prositiutes and their empolyers in New York.
ReplyDeleteI used our book and http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/collections/gender-legal-history/glh-summary.cfm?glhID=65303CB5-BA82-0CA3-1B84FECB17538D51 as sources.
The Temperance movement was aimed to reduce and eventually prohibit the consumption of alcohol. Drinking in America had begun to cause problems in that men drank often on the job, creating unsafe working environments, and potential violence in homes. Members of Temperance movements used this societal issues to urge American citizens from consuming alcohol. A specific group that did so was the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance, which begun their movement in 1826. One key member was Lyman Beecher, who was a co-founder of the movement. Beecher was a church minister who believed it was morally wrong to consume alcohol, and as part of the his leadership in the Second Great Awakening, Beecher contributed greatly to the Temperance movement efforts.
ReplyDeleteAs mentioned above, one of the key reform movements in this time period was the temperance movement. It advertised the banning of any alcohol, and was greatly supported by the Catholic community. An unmentioned member of this reform was Martha Washington, who hosted her own appropriately-named Martha Washington Society. It was significant as a branch of female support in the male-dominated society. She provided organizations where women could work together to support causes such as temperance; they were successful in being effective and important in their contributions to the movement.
ReplyDeleteWomens rights. The womens rights movement was epitomized in the efforts of women across america to gain suffrage, equal treatment under the law, and in society. One very important leader of the womens rights movement was Susan B. Anthony. She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President. She also co-founded the women's rights journal, The Revolution.
ReplyDeleteOne man who was very important to the reforms of the early 1800's was Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Later Day Saints. In 1830 Smith founded the predominant branch of Mormonism which exists to this day. He strongly believed his ideas on how to religiously lead people were correct. Through his sermons, Smith cultivated a large following of people that banded together as a community. When persecuted for their 'strange' beliefs, the Church of Latter Day Saints moved westward together. And when Smith was murdered in 1844 by an angry mob, the church still stayed together. Smith was able to establish a strong following that has survived to present times exemplifying his influence on religion.
ReplyDeleteAnother very important reform movement was the temperance movement. Temperance was where a person pledged to abstain from the consumption of alcohol for the rest of their lives. This movement was supported because drinking used up much of a families income and caused destructive behavior. The Temper acne movement caused a drop in alcohol consumption by over two thirds. The temperance movement was mainly supported by women, who didn't drink themselves but wanted their husbands to stop.
ReplyDeleteA important movement was the Religious movement because most of the other movements including the Temperance movement came out of it. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a major player in the Religious movement. He believed in transcendentalism, that all truth will be discovered from observing nature.
ReplyDeleteAn important movement during this time was the alcohol reform. During this time, people were drinking 6 times as much an average than people today: children as young as 6 were also drinking. Important people who tried to perform a reform movement on the issue were Theobald Matthew and Jabez Tunnicliff.
ReplyDeleteAn important movement during this time was the abolition movement. At the time, many Northern states had already abolished slavery. However, in the southern states it was still legal. Someone who was a key person in this movement was Harriet Tubman. She was a former runaway slave who helped slaves escape slavery with the underground railroad.
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