Cynthia Antenor

1. Antebellum Culture and Reform Cynthia Antenor

2. The Temperance Crusade • Crusade against drunkenness • Opponents of Alcohol believed that alcohol was the cause of disorder, poverty and crime. • American Society for Promotion of Temperance. • Attempted to use preaching to promote abstinence. • temperance advocates urged abstinence of liquor PLUS beer and wine. • Wanted state legislation to restrict the sale and the consumption of alcohol.

3. Health Fads • Medical advocates tried to find cures/ vaccines for diseases. • People noticed that sterilizing things and washing hands would decrease the spread of bacteria • People attempted to find nonscientific ways to improve health with their ignorance in medicine. (dietary theories, cold or warm baths) • Discovery ofContagion the transmission of a disease by direct or indirect contact

4. Reformation of Education • Production of a system of universal public education. • To expose students to stable social values to resist instability. • U.S had the highest literacy rate in the world. • Institutions to aid the handicapped. (network of charitable activities to help discover inner strength and wisdom of the blind) _________ __ _ ______ __ _________ ______ _________ _ ______ ________ __ ______ ______ ______ __ ______ ___________ ___ ___ _______ ________ ____ __ ___ _____ ___________ __ ___ ___ ___________ _______ __ __________ __________ __ ____ ________ _____ ________ ___ ______ __ ___ _____

5. The Asylum Movement • To create asylums for the criminals and the mentally ill. • States replaced the asylums with penitentiaries, and mental institutions (proper environment for its inmates) • Dorthea Dix new method of treating the mentally ill. _ ______ _______ ___ ___ _________ ___ ___ ________ ___ _____ ________ ___ _______ ____ ______________ ___ ______ ____________ ______ ___________ ___ ___ _______ ______ _____ ______ __ ________ ___ ________ ___

6. Prison Reform • Asylumswere to curb the abuses of the old system, to reform and rehabilitate its inmates. • Solitary confinement to make criminals think of their wrong doings. • Properly structured institution to prevent moral failure, or keep individuals form failure and despair. __________ __ ____ ___ ______ __ ___ ___ ______ __ ______ ___ ____________ ___ _______ _______ ___________ __ ____ _________ _____ __ _____ _____ ______ _______ __________ ___________ __ _______ _____ _______ __ ____ ___________ ____ _______ ___ _______

7. Feminist Movement • Females ignored restrictions pressed on the boundary of female behavior. • Seneca Falls= a convention organized to discuss the question of women's rights. • “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” • The right to vote • Women and men are created equal • ______ _______ ____________ _______ __ ___ ________ __ ______ ________ • _____ ____ _ __________ _________ __ _______ ___ ________ __ _____ _ ______ • __________ __ _________ ___ __________ • __ _____ __ ____ • ____ ___ ___ ___ _______ _____

8. Abolitionist Movement • Free Slaves, tried to transport them up north (Canada , or to Africa) • Right of the white man should be extended to the Blacks. • People like Fredrick Douglas were able to become free. He lectured and Europe and started his daily newspaper. Some slave (insignificant amount had the opportunity to go to Africa or go through the underground railroad to become free)

9. Conclusion • Several groups and institutions attempted to relieve the components of their cause. For instance, feminist during this era had the enthusiasm and power, but received no recognition. Although the abolitionists, were able to free some slaves, the number freed were insignificant. The Antebellum Era was an era of establishing ideas and groups to represent the cause they were trying to advocate, it was not necessarily and era of change. On the plus side, the new groups and their efforts will gain increase power over the years, if they remain a solid unit, and one day their causes will be recognized.