PRISON AMD ASYLUM

• Movement can be attributed to a single individual Dorothea Dix.
• Emerged because of terrible conditions Dorothea Dix encountered while teaching Sunday classes at
• the east Cambridge Jail in Massachusetts.
• The goal of this movement was to improve conditions in prisons.
• Dorothea Dix and John Howard

PRISON AND ASYLUM

• Their beliefs were that children should not have been imprisoned with adults, and that the prisoners should have
• been treated better. They were locked up in chains and tied to ropes and they believed that they should not
• have been. Also, they believed that the mentally ill prisoners should have been put into a hospital instead of prison.

PRISON AND ASYLUM

• There were not any laws passed in this reform.
• What was accomplished was that the disabled were treated more like the other prisoners.

WOMENS RIGHTS

• This movement emerged because men thought that women were not equal to men, so they
• weren't allowed to vote, speak out, work, hold public office, or serve in the military.
• The goals of this movement were to gain the rights of women.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

• Susan Anthony campaigned against slavery and for the promotion of women’s and workers rights.
• She began campaigning within the temperance movement and this convinced her of the necessity for women
• to have the vote. She toured the US giving countless speeches on the subjects of human rights.

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

• Elizabeth Stanton was a social activist and leading figure in the early women's rights movement. She
• was a key figure in helping create the early women's suffrage movements in the US. She was the principle
• author of 'Declaration of Sentiments' which was distributed at the first women's rights.

WOMEMS RIGHTS

• The 14th amendment was ratified. Citizens and voters are defined exclusively as males.
• The 15th amendment was ratified and gave black women the right to vote.

ABOLITION

• What caused this movement to emerge is that the black pele were treated horribly and used
• as slaves. The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of
• racial discrimination and segregation.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

• Was a runaway slave, a supporter of women's rights, and probably the most prominent abolitionist and human
• rights leader if the nineteenth century. Douglass favored the use of political tactics to work for abolition. During
• the Civil War, he advised President Lincoln to let former slaves fight for the North, and helped organize two
• black regiments in Massachusetts. Douglass worked zealously to make the war a direct confrontation with slavery.

HARRIET TUBMAN

• Was a runaway slave and abolitionist who guided some 300 fellow runaways to freedom
• as one of the most famous and successful "conductors" on the Underground Railroad.
• The so-called Railroad was a secret network of safe houses where slaves were hidden on their journey northward.
• To facilitate its success, Tubman journeyed perilously back into the South at least a dozen times, and was able
• to bring her parents and brother to freedom.

ABOLITION

• In 1776 the second continental congress passed a ban on participation in the international slave trade, ordering
• that no slaves be imported into any of the Thirteen United Colonies.
• In 1807 At President Jefferson's request, Congress passes a law prohibiting all Americans from participating in
• the African slave trade.
• In 1865 The necessary two-thirds of all states ratified the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which

ABOLITION

• declares that Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party
• shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

TEMPERANCE

• The temperance movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries was an organized effort to encourage
• moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence.
• The movement's ranks were mostly filled by women who, with their children, had endured the effects of unbridled
• drinking by many of their menfolk. This movement is dedicated promoting moderation and, more often,
• complete abstinence the use of intoxicating alcohol.

HERBERT HOOVER

• On August 11,1932 Herbert Hoover gave an acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination for
• president in which he discussed the ills of prohibition and the need for its end.

TEMPERANCE

TEMPERANCE

TEMPERANCE

• On December 18,1893 The US Senate passed the Volstead Act on December 18th which was one of
• the significant steps to the passage of the 18th amendment.
• On December 5th, 1933 prohibition is repealed with the 21st amendment.

EDUCATION

• Horace Mann, often called the Father of the Common School, began his career as a lawyer and legislator.
• When he was elected to act as Secretary of the newly-created Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837, he
• used his position to enact major educational reform. He spearheaded the Common School Movement,
• ensuring that every child could receive a basic education funded by local taxes. His influence soon spread
• beyond Massachusetts as more states took up the idea of universal schooling.

EDUCATION

• Mann believed that public schooling was central to good citizenship, democratic participation and societal
• well-being.
• 1852 - Massachusetts enacts the first mandatory attendance law. By 1885, 16 states have compulsory-attendance
• laws, but most of those laws are sporadically enforced at best. All states have them by 1918.

SUMMARY

• Our family has decided to join the Temperance Movement. We have decided to join this movement
• because we believe that the drinking of alcohol is destroying families everywhere. Alcohol is splitting
• up families and killing people. Alcohol is the devil and we wish to ban the use of this intoxicating
• liquid.

REFORM MOVEMNTS

• By: Tanner Rummel