1. Warm-Up
What were some of the major problems created by rapid urbanization/industrialization?
2) Make a prediction: Who will women/families turn to to try and fix/reform some of these issues?

3. The Second Great Awakening
The renewal of Religious Faith in the 1790s and early 1800s.
Religious faith lead people to believe that they could help others.
Such beliefs helped awaken a spirit of reform in America

4. The Reform Movements
Changing America for the Better!

5. Temperance Movement The movement to end Alcohol Abuse
Workers spent more money on alcohol than their families.
This caused Poverty, Crime, and Family Breakups

6. Public Education There was no public education available.
Only the wealthy could afford to send their children to school

7. Public Education
Horace Mann believed that education was “The great Equalizer” that provided opportunity to everyone
Mann set up the first State board of education in Massachusetts and push for more Public Schools.

8. Labor Reform Working Conditions were horrible. No benefits were given.
Workers had no rights

9. Labor Reform Working Organized into Labor Unions.
They went on strike (refused to work) until Conditions were improved

10. Prison and Mental Health
Dorothea Dix saw first hand how bad conditions were in Prisons.
Mentally handicapped people were locked in cages or tied up.

11. Prison and Mental Health
Dorothea Dix went before the Massachusetts Legislature to push for help for the mentally Handicapped and Prison reform.

12. Women’s Rights
Women abolitionists were denied access to meetings because they were women.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized a meeting for Womens Rights

13. Women’s Rights This meeting was called The Seneca Falls Convention
There Women drafted the Declaration of Sentiments a document outline a desire for womens rights.

14. Abolition Abolition is the movement to end slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison publish the Liberator, a Newspaper calling for and end to slavery

15. Abolition
Fredrick Douglass and Sojourner Truth were both escaped slaves that spoke against slavery from a personal point of view

16. Abolition
Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad a secret network to help slaves escape north.