Week 2 Day 4 [first]

 Reform  Equality  Status  The method of fixing, improving and correcting [change for the better]  The act of leveling and balancing fairness  The rank or grade of a person’s place in society

 Suffrage  Nationalism  Sectionalism  Perfectionism  Freedom  Slavery  Abolition  The right, act and privilege of voting  Extreme love for your nation and exaggerated patriotism  Loyalty to certain section of a country [South, North, East, West]  A religious and social movement that sought gender equality and communalism  The right and protection from servitude  The deprivation of freedom  The movement seeking the elimination of slavery

 Dorothea Dix taught Sunday School at prison in Massachusetts.  While there she witnessed appalling conditions for the prisoners.  She saw terrible treatment of mentally ill inmates.  After her experience she wrote letters to lawmakers and crusaded to improve the conditions of prisoners and mentally ill persons across the United States.  As a result conditions and facilities for these people improved.

 Horace Mann was a lawmaker from Massachusetts who led the fight for expanded public education.  His legislative leadership led to the expansion of school construction, teacher training and higher teacher pay.  Massachusetts passed a mandatory school attendance law  Because of Mann’s reforms other states expanded public education as well.

 Many American women were tired of witnessing the devastation that alcohol wrought on families.  Rural men were especially prone to alcoholism because of isolation and depression. Domestic violence was also a problem.  Christian religious women were the most active in trying have alcohol banned.  Eventually states began to prohibit alcohol culminating in the 18 th Amendment in 1919

 In the 1800s several women fought for property and voting rights for women. The Seneca Falls Convention was the first well known national meeting to discuss and plan women’s rights.  Lucretia Mott-religious Quaker wife of a minister who believed slavery was evil. Favored women’s voting/property rights.  Susan B. Anthony-an “angry” feminist who demanded and fought for voting rights which led to passage of the 19 th Amendment.  Sojourner Truth-former slave who spoke out against slavery in speeches and letters. Supported women’s voting and property rights.  Elizabeth Cady Stanton-abolitionist and women’s voting rights supporter she did emphasize religion.

 Groups of communities gathered together to separate themselves from the rest of society. [Brook Farm, Oneida and New Harmony]  The whole point was to make perfect worlds, perfect societies based on unique religious beliefs. They believed the outside world was evil and impure.  Shared child raring, shared spouses, shared homes and shared property.  Many Americans thought these citizens were weird, freakish and unusual

 Joseph Smith-The founder of the Mormon religious movement. He was presented by an Angel golden tablets in the woods in New York. He published them into the Book of Mormon that was added to the Bible. He traveled with his followers to different states and was eventually murdered by an angry mob.  Brigham Young-Lead the pilgrimage of Mormons Westward to their permanent home in Utah.  Controversial beliefs included plural marriages and separatism.

The time when Christian religious involvement and church membership soared! Different types of denominations increased by large numbers [Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian and others] Ministers and pastors lead revivals and preached that people should live more devout lives.

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