1. Reforming American Society Efforts to Make America a Better nation, 1800 - 1850 Efforts to Make America a Better nation, 1800 - 1850

2. Reforming American Society Reform - To change something, to try to make it better http://www.historytunes.com/images/synopsis/15.j pg http://english8.fsu.edu/jcg07g/voteswomen.j pg

3. Slavery & Abolition Abolition - The call to outlaw [abolish] slavery in America William Lloyd Garrison Abolitionis t Goal: an immediate end to slavery. Enslaved persons emancipated [set free], with no payments to the slave owners Started an ant-slavery newspaper called “The Liberator” Founder - “American Anti-Slavery Society”

4. Frederick Douglass Douglass was an escaped slave that supported Garrison and The Liberator He often spoke at meetings held by the American Anti-Slavery Society Would publish his own anti- slavery newspaper, “The North Star” Douglass published his paper in Rochester, NY. He is buried in that city

5. Temperance Movement http://connecticuthistory.org/wp- content/uploads/2011/09/TemperanceConvention- e1316806174207-631x1024.jpg Americans in the 1800s drank an excessive amount of alcohol 1830 - consumption of alcohol reached its all-time high: 3.9 gallons per person American Temperance Society was formed in 1826. It was dedicated to total abstinence

6. Rights for Women For much of America’s early history, women were “second-class citizens” http://declaringamerica.com/01/media/WesleyanChapel- 600x400.jpg What remains of Wesleyan Chapel, site of 1848 convention The Women’s Rights Movement began with a convention in Seneca Falls, NY July 19 - 20, 1848

7. Declaration of Sentiments http://www.womensrightsfriends.org/images/1848_declaration_of_sentiment s.png “We hold these rights to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

8. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Stanton was one of the main organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention hd.housedivided.dickinson. edu Stanton, circa 1856 She spent the rest of her life fighting to help women gain equality. She died in 1902 Stanton and her husband had been active in the abolition movement