Reforming Society By: History King Jimenez

Dorthea Dix- was a teacher & humanitarian reformer Dix didn't believe that mentally ill people should be put into jails. The government should aid society’s most helpless people and be treated with dignity. Dix’s efforts enacted prison reform to create institutions for the mentally ill 2

1826 the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance was formed Blamed alcohol for family breakups, crime and insanity 1851 Maine passes first law banning sale and consumption of alcohol (law later repealed) 3

Horace Mann was the leader of education reform Believed education was essential to democracy Mann became head of Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837 OMG! I Education 4

By the 1850’s all states had accepted these 3 basic principles of education 1. Lengthen the school year to six months 2. Teachers should be trained 3.Children should be required to attend school You mean we have to go to school for 6 months?! My uniform is so ratchet! 5

Most females did not go to school, if they did they studied music or needlework Reformers pushed for educational opportunities for women 1837 Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke the first permanent women’s college in America Oberlin College founded in 1833 admitted women and African Americans Ashmun Institute first college for African Americans 6

“True Womanhood” Industrial Revolution led to the emergence of the first woman’s movement X “True Womanhood” was based on women should be homemakers and be responsible for developing their children’s characters Catharine Beecher wrote A Treatise on Domestic Economy that argued that women could find fulfillment at home and gave instruction on child care, cooking and health matters 7

Lucretia Mott- a Quaker, helped fugitive slaves and organized the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Elizabeth Cady Stanton- was an abolitionist and leading figure of the early woman's movement and the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association for 20 years Susan B. Anthony- worked for women’s rights, organized first temperance association, the Daughters of Temperance 8

Seneca Falls Convention Organized in 1848 by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The convention was the beginning of an organized women’s movement. 9

The convention issued the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments that called for: 1.An end to laws that discriminated against women 2.Entrance into all-male worlds of trade, professions and business 3.Suffrage, or the right to vote By the 1860s, many states had passed laws that expanded women’s rights such as property ownership 10