Warm-Up (3/29) 1) Get on web browser and go to www.nisd.net 2) On the right side of your screen find the drop down list that says “Employee Links” 3) Click on CMS from the drop down 4) On the CMS login screen change the drop down to Student/Parent and log in with S# and 4X4 5) Once logged in, on the left side of the screen in the “Take a Test” put in code WU6NY8 6) Select Mr. Chiles 7) Click “Start Quiz”

Reform Movements…

Labor Reform Conditions during Industrial Revolution: Tedious, same (menial) task for 12 hour days No safety regulations Factories were dangerous and dirty No health benefits No regulations for child laborers

Knights of Labor

Accomplishments of Labor Reform 1) Laws passed for a 10 hour workday 2) Working conditions/safety standards improved 3) Creation of labor unions 4) States began to pass minimum age laws and limits to child labor

Education Reform Education in the 1800s Few American children attended school in the 1800s, mostly the wealthy Teachers were poorly trained and not well paid. An entire school was in a single room. Reformers also recognized that if people were to be involved with the government, they had to be educated.

“Father of American Education” Horace Mann “Father of American Education”

Asylum (Prison) Reform Issues/Problems: People with mental illnesses were treated like criminals and locked up in prisons. Asylums isolated and separated the criminal, the insane, the ill, and the dependent from outside society.

Dorothea Dix