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Reform Movements

• 2nd Great Awakening
• Prison reform
• Educational reform
• Abolitionists
• Equal Rights for Women
• Temperance
• Workers Rights

Second Great Awakening

• a revival of religious feeling and beliefs
• a message of hope
• doing good works can help people go to

heaven

• Gave a reason to work for improvement of

society

Prison Reform

• Dorothea Dix
• Treatment of mentally ill, children &

debtors in prison

• Solution: humane treatment,

separate prisons, asylums for mentally ill, stopped jailing debtors

• Successful: Yes, but work is still

being done to help mentally ill.

Education Reform

• Horace Mann
• Children stealing, destroying property, not

regular attendance, teachers not trained, no schools

• Solution: help children escape poverty &

become good citizens, wanted all children to have an education

• Successful: Yes but public education still

needs improvements in many areas of the U.S.

Abolitionist

• Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison,

Sojourner Truth

• Slavery for millions of African-Americans in

the Southern U.S.

• Solution: end/abolish slavery; and give

equal rights to African Americans

• Successful: Yes with the 13th amendment

(1865)

Women’s Rights

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott
• Can’t vote or hold office, husbands control

money and property, can be disciplined by husbands

• Solution: equal rights and ability to vote
• Successful: Yes; Seneca Falls Convention

started the women’s rights movement; ended with the 19th Amendment (1920) and women given the right to vote

Temperance Movement

• Susan B. Anthony, Lyman Beecher
• Alcohol abuse, poverty, domestic

violence

• Solution: ban the sale, production

and consumption of alcohol

• Successful: Yes with the 18th

Amendment (1919); repealed by the 21st Amendment (1933)

Workers Rights

• Sarah Bagley- First Pres. of the

Lowell Female Labor Reform Association

• 13 hour work days, harsh

conditions, child labor

• Solution: shorter work days, safer

conditions

• Successful: Yes, in 1938 with the

Fair Labor Standards Act

Reform Movements Vocabulary

• Reform - to make changes in order to bring about improvements,

end abuses, or correct injustices

• Second Great Awakening - a revival of religious feeling and belief

from the 1800s to the 1840s

• Transcendentalism - a philosophy emphasizing that people should

transcend, or go beyond, logical thinking to reach true understanding, with the help of emotions and intuition

• Abolitionists - a person who supported ending slavery
• Seneca Falls Convention - the gathering of supporters of women’s

rights in July 1848 that launched the movement for women’s rights to vote

• Declaration of Sentiments - a formal statement of injustices

suffered by women, written by the organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention (Sentiments means beliefs or convictions)