Unit 6- Age of Jackson - Early 1800s Reforms: Rights & Slavery

Bell Ringer: What does it mean to reform something?

Crash Course https://youtu.be/fM1czS_VYDI?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s

Education most children were educated at home but some communities established schools The American Spelling Book was written by Noah Webster popular textbook included American spelling forms NOT the old English ways..

Education Public School Movement- Horace Mann is leader sought to establish a tax supported public school system, State Boards of Education, teacher training. standardized calendars, adequate school funding, abolish corporal punishment, establish teacher training programs

Mental/Prison Reform Dorothea Dix Discovered mentally ill patients housed with criminals Spent 2 yrs visiting prisons Campaigned across nation that successfully led to creation of first modern mental hospitals

Mental/Prison Reform Penitentiary Movement reformers believed prisoners should feel sorrow for one’s crimes prisoners should have opportunity to become better, not just be punished- rehabilitate

Women’s Movement With the industrial revolution women began to work outside of the home for the first time this gave them some economic independence

Women’s Movement The 2nd Great Awakening opened new opportunities for women they were leaders of many reform movements

. Cult of Domesticity 1800’s belief that once married women should take care of the home and children There were four things they believed that women should be: More religious than men Pure in heart, mind, and body Submissive to their husbands Staying at home

The Anti Slavery Movement Sarah and Angelina Grimke Published “Letters on Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women” **argued God made men and women…therefore men and women should be treated equal. both wrote and spoke out against slavery established a school for African American girls

Women’s Movement Seneca Falls Convention - 1848 nation’s first Women’s Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott Declaration of Sentiments “all men and women are created equal” called for women’s equality and suffrage https://youtu.be/TcYhuG1y3bc

Susan B Anthony Inspired by the convention . Susan B Anthony Inspired by the convention Long-time and major activist in women’s movement for the right to vote

The Anti Slavery Movement Abolitionist Movement = abolishing slavery By 1830 there were around 2 million slaves in the U.S. Most worked on cotton plantations Brutal work routines, beatings, being separated from family The basics of survival were barely provided Slaves resisted bondage in several ways breaking tools, releasing livestock, or escaping

The Anti Slavery Movement William Lloyd Garrison newspaper publisher began printing The Liberator, an anti slavery newspaper said that slavery was morally wrong wanted immediate emancipation (freeing of slaves)

Sojourner Truth Former slave known for her powerful speeches against slavery

The Anti Slavery Movement Frederick Douglass former slave spoke and wrote about his life as slave “The Narrative of the the life of Frederick Douglass” https://youtu.be/0Hi4jIZg0cI

The Anti Slavery Movement Gag Rule- 1836 Law prohibited the discussion of slavery in Congress the rule was renewed annually for 8 years

Exit Ticket: Why do you think Congress would pass the Gag Rule of 1836? (Law prohibited the discussion of slavery in Congress)