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Reform And Reformers. Make sure to play, read, and note take!. Instructions. After viewing the following slides, write only the facts in Red onto your Foldable. Vocabulary: Reform: to bring change Reformer: a person devoted to bringing about reform or change, as in politics or society.

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  1. Reform And Reformers Make sure to play, read, and note take!

  2. Instructions • After viewing the following slides, write only the facts in Red onto your Foldable.

  3. Vocabulary:Reform:to bring changeReformer: a person devoted to bringing about reform or change, as in politics or society

  4. Issue that needs Reform#1 Abolitionism • What issue needs reform?: end slavery immediately.

  5. William Lloyd Garrison (1801-1879) • Slavery undermined republicanvalues. • Immediate emancipation (to become free) • Slavery was a moral, notan economic issue. R2-4

  6. Anti-Slavery Alphabet

  7. Other White Abolitionists Lewis Tappan James Birney Arthur Tappan

  8. Black Abolitionists • 1845 former slave wrote “The Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass” • 1847 newspaper editor of “The North Star” Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)

  9. Sojourner Truth (1787-1883)or Isabella Baumfree 1850 former slave who wrote “The Narrative of Sojourner Truth” R2-10

  10. Harriet Tubman(1820-1913) “Moses” • Helped over 300 slaves to freedom. • $40,000 bounty on her head. • Served as a Union spy during the Civil War.

  11. Leading Escaping Slaves Along the Underground Railroad

  12. The Underground Railroad • “Conductor” ==== leader of the escape • “Passengers” ==== escaping slaves • “Tracks” ==== routes • “Trains” ==== farm wagons transporting the escaping slaves • “Depots” ==== safe houses to rest/sleep

  13. Methods Used • Petitions • Newspapers • Mail Campaigns • Violence

  14. Issue that Needs Reform • Temperance Movement: to rid the world of alcohol consumption Frances Willard 1826 - American Temperance Society“Demon Rum!” The Beecher Family

  15. Annual Consumption of Alcohol

  16. Temperance Movement • Methods Used:

  17. Methods Sermons, rallies, prohibition laws, invading and even storming into pubs and destroying the alcohol and beating the men!

  18. 3. Issue that Needs Reform Penitentiary Reform: Better treatment of criminals and people with disabilities or special needs. Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) R1-5/7

  19. Methods Used:Petitions to Congress, separate asylums for the mentally ill, rehabilitation

  20. Issue that Needs Reform • Educational Reform What Needs to be Reformed: Low Literacy, school attendance, equal schooling for children • By 1860 every state offered free public education to whites only.

  21. Horace Mann(1796-1859) “Father of American Education” • children were clay in the hands of teachers • children should be “molded” into a state of perfection • discouraged corporal punishment • established state teacher- training programs R3-6

  22. The McGuffey Eclectic Readers • Used religious stories to teach “American values.” • Teach middle class kids morality and respect for order. • Teach “Protestant ethic” (frugality, hard work, sobriety) R3-8

  23. Women Educators • Troy, NY Female Seminary • curriculum: math, physics, history, geography. • school to train female teachers Emma Willard(1787-1870) Mary Lyons(1797-1849) • 1837  she established Mt. Holyoke [So. Hadley, MA] as the first college for women.

  24. Methods Used • Petitions to congress • Rewarding good behavior • Hiring women as teachers • Making it illegal not to send child to school • Opening more schools

  25. 5. Issue that Needs ReformWomen's Movement

  26. What Needs to be reformed? • Women Unable to vote. • Giving Women citizenship. • Single women  could not own her own property. • Married  no control over herproperty or her children. • Could not ask for divorce. • Couldn’t make wills, sign a contract, or bring suit in court without her husband’s permission.

  27. Key Reformers The 2nd Great Awakening inspired women to improve society. Lucy Stone Angelina Grimké Sarah Grimké • American Women’sSuffrage Assoc. • edited Woman’s Journal Southern Abolitionists R2-9

  28. What It Would Be Like If Ladies Had Their Own Way! Analyze the cartoon R2-8

  29. Methods Used Petitions, rallies, speaking tours

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