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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● Solution: ban the sale, production and consumption of alcohol ● Successful: Yes with the 18th Amendment (1919); repealed by the 21st Amendment (1933)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)