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1 Chapter 8 Reform- make changes in order to improve

2 Horace Mann –demanded tax supported school –Double school spending, increase teacher’s salaries, school year lengthen, trained teachers, curriculum reforms –Led to compulsory education (all children required to attend school until certain age)

3 Elizabeth Blackwell the first woman to graduate from medical school and a pioneer in educating women in medicine

4 Dorothea Dix Mentally Ill Discover treatment towards mentally ill jailed "I proceed, Gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of Insane Persons confined within this cages, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience." Convinced lawmaker to raise standards of care for mentally ill and build mental hospitals

5 Transcendentalism Literary movement Emphasized simple living Stress optimism, freedom and self- reliance

6 ABOLITION the movement to end slavery

7 born into slavery taught to read and write escaped began own antislavery paper (The North Star) Frederick Douglas

8 Sojourner Truth An ex-slave, she was a speaker against slavery Travel from state to state to talk about slavery

9 Second Great Awakening Religious movement Emphasis on individual salvation Revival – an emotional meeting to awaken religious faith

10 Temperance Movement Effort to prohibit drinking of alcohol R1-6

11 “Reform” Temperance (3) Asylum & Prison/Health (3) Education (4) Women’s Rights (3) Abolitionism (5) Horace Mann Write TERMS or NAMES that made contribution to specific categories provided below: (DESCRIBE the person or DEFINE the term) Religion (3) Revival Transcendentalism (3) Civil disobedience

12 “Cult of Domesticity” eA woman’s place was in the home What It Would Be Like If Ladies Had Their Own Way!

13 William Lloyd Garrison editor of an antislavery paper (The Liberator) seeks immediate emancipation (freeing of slaves)

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