1. QOTD The Monroe Doctrine was important to American history because it
a) expressed America’s willingness to intervene in internal conflicts of Europe.
b) directly opposed further European colonization anywhere in the world.
c) showed that America would protect the Americas as a sphere of influence.
d) accepted Spanish expansion in the Americas in order to form an alliance.

2. QOTD The Monroe Doctrine was important to American history because it
c) showed that America would protect the Americas as a sphere of influence.

3. Today’s Standard SSUSH7
Describe reform movements and women’s efforts to gain suffrage

4. 19th Century Reform Movements
Social Change and Improvement

5. Movements for Social Reform
The Era of Good Feeling was not all good
Industry did not bring all positive change
Immigrants were flooding in
People are migrating in huge numbers to the West
America, while growing and prospering, also faced poverty, alcoholism, illiteracy, and many other social issues…
1) reform was needed
2) What is reform? Making a change in order to improve something.

6. The War Against Alcohol
1) Early 1800s - Americans consumed more alcohol during this time than any other in history
Alcoholism became common
2) As a result, the temperance movement began, the movement to limit alcohol consumption in the United States
3) Temperance supporters believed alcohol consumption led to criminal behavior, family violence, and poverty.
4) People were encouraged to practice abstinence, to stop drinking.
Most temperance supporters were women
5) Some states adopted prohibition, which was a complete alcohol ban

7. Reforming Education
1) Reformers were worried that schools were inadequate and there was a substantial lack of literacy in the U.S.
2) They argued the nation needed government funded, free public schools for all American children.
3) Horace Mann is considered the father of public education
From Massachusetts
Worked tirelessly to increase government spending for free education

8. Abolition
1) In the early 1800s, many people began to believe in the abolishment of slavery.
This began the abolitionist movement
2) By the early 1800s, most Northern states had gotten rid of slavery
However the Southern states fiercely defended it, as it was vital to their economy
3) William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Two notable abolitionists, which we will talk more about later…

9. Women’s Rights
In the 1800s, women were very limited in what they could do with their lives.
1) cult of domesticity – basically states that the woman’s place is the home
2) Elizabeth Cady Stanton – one of the most influential women in American history
3) Wanted to end slavery and give more rights to women – led to the Women’s Rights Movement
4) 1848 – Stanton and Lucretia Mott and followers make the movement official at the Seneca Falls Conference

10. Women’s Rights
5) They sign a Declaration of Sentiments to express their discontent as American women
Women wanted the right to own land
Have their own finances
Have a fair chance at having custody of their children in the event of a divorce
6) Of all these rights, according to Stanton, the most important was the right to vote, also called suffrage
7) If women gain the right to vote, they will have the power to get all the other rights in due time.