Reform Movement
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
- Problems that made it emerge- public health, safety, child labor, and women’s work
- AWSA was better funded and the larger of the two groups
- NWSA, which was based in New York
- It's goal was to secure the franchise for women
- What they wanted to change -access to education or property rights
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WOMENS RIGHTS
- Famous people involved in movement-
- Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Ida B. Wells
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SUSAN B. ANTHONY
- was NAWSA’s first president
- She believed that men and women should study, live and work as equals and
- should commit themselves equally to the eradication of cruelty and injustice in the world
ALICE PAUL
- She was the leader of the most militant wing of the woman-suffrage movement
- In 1920, Alice Paul proposed an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution. (“Men and women,”
- it read, “shall have equal rights throughout the United States.”)
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
- She advocated for the reform of marriage and divorce laws, the expansion of educational
- opportunities for girls and even the adoption of less confining clothing so that women could be more active
LUCY STONE
- She helped initiate the first National Women's Rights Convention and she supported and sustained it annually
- She assisted in establishing the Woman's National Loyal League to help pass the Thirteenth Amendment
- and thereby abolish slavery after which she helped form the American Woman Suffrage Association,
- which built support for a woman suffrage Constitutional amendment by winning woman
- suffrage at the state and local levels
IDA B. WELLS
- She was active in women's rights and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several notable
- women's organizations. She was a skilled and persuasive rhetorician, and traveled internationally on lecture tours.
WOMEN RIGHTS
- Accomplished- It allowed women the right to vote
- Women earned all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship
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ABOLITION
- Problem- African American slaves were treated unequally,
- Group that started reform- the Quakers
- The goal of the abolitionist movement was to
- achieve emancipation for all slaves in the U.S.
- They wanted to change about racial segregation and discrimination
ABOLITION
- Famous people involved in movement- Frederick Douglass
- Lucretia Mott
- Harriet Tubman
- Mary Ann M'Clintock
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
- He believed that “Right is of no sex, truth is of no color,"
- He wanted an immediate end to slavery
LUCRETIA MOTT
- She wanted human equality
- At a young age she became determined to put an end to such social injustices
MARY ANN M'CLINTOCK
- She helped organize groups of people to end slavery
- She and others led several hundred members of the Hicksite community to form the
- new Progressive Friends or Friends of Human Progress
HARRIET TUBMAN
- She wanted African American slaves should be grated the same way as everybody else
- She led people to freedom by escaping from slavery
ABOLITION
- Accomplished- It abolished slavery throughout the US
TEMPERANCE
- Problem that caused movement to emerge- drunkenness
- The American Temperance Society and Ulster Temperance Movement formed the temperance reform movement
- It's goals- to stop people from getting too drunk and stop drinking habits
- What they wanted to change- they wanted to put sharp restrictions on alcohol in many countries
- Famous people involved in temperance movement- Carry Nation, Frances E. Willard, Susan B. Anthony
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CARRIE A. NATION
- She opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition
- She frequently attacked the property of alcohol-serving establishments with a hatchet
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
- She believed drinking liquor was sinful
- She drew attention to the effects of drunkenness on families and campaigned for stronger liquor laws
FRANCES E. WILLARD
- She helped found the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- She lectured to try and eliminate alcohol
TEMPERANCE
- Accomplished- sharp restrictions on the sale of alcohol in many countries
- in order to preserve resources for war use
PRISON AND ASYLUM REFORM
- Problems- mentally ill people in prisons were being punished when they should have been getting treatment
- Groups that started it- Dorothea Dix
- Goal- to separate mentally ill to asylums and criminals to penitentiary's
- What they wanted to change- they wanted to put mentally ill people in asylums's and criminals in penitentiary's
DOROTHEA DIX
- She believed that mentally ill people needed treatment and care, not punishment in jails
- She wanted criminals to be separated by the seriousness of their crime
- And mentally insane to be put in hospitals
BENJAMIN RUSH
- He wanted to put mentally ill people in asylums
- He believed that mental illness was a physical illness rather than a moral one
PRISON AND ASYLUM
- Accomplished- they moved the mentally ill to the asylums and the criminals to the penitentiary's
EDUCATION
- Problems- people weren't educated
- Horace Mann, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, and Thomas Hopkins Gaulladet started the education reform
- Goal- improving education
- What they want to change- they want to build public schools to learn
DR. SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOWE
- He wanted to teach blind and deaf children according to their talents
- He was best remembered as an innovator in education for the blind and deaf
HORRACE MANN
- He believed that universal public education was the best way to turn the nation's unruly children
- into disciplined, judicious republican citizens
- He won widespread approval from modernizers, for building public schools
THOMAS HOPKINS GALLAUDET
- He tried to make education for the deaf
- He was co-founder of the first permanent school for the deaf in North America
EDUCATION
- Accomplished- they accomplished education in public schools
- They also accomplished education for deaf people
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WHICH ONE MY FAMILY CHOOSES!
- My family and I choose the education reform because it is good for my kids to have a
- Good education in their life, so they can actually have a good life and be well educated
- They'll be able to do more stuff in life with education!
