1. Quote of the Day:
“Pampered cows produce spoiled milk…”

2. Public School Reforms Most Responsible for changes: Horace Mann
Improvements suggested and implemented:
Use taxes to pay for better schools
Pay teachers higher salaries
Better, specialized training for teachers

3. NBE #3 – Vocab Ch. 18
Second Great Awakening – A religious movement in the 1820’s-1830’s in which
millions of Americans were converted to a new
form of Christianity
Public Schools – Schools that are paid for by taxes, managed by local
governments, and benefit all children (not just the rich)
Abolitionists – People who wanted to end slavery
Declaration of Sentiments – A document, written by women at the Seneca Falls
Convention, which listed the many ways women
were being mistreated in American society

4. Learning Targets Success Criteria
Understand what problems existed within the prison system and with the treatment of the mentally ill
I can explain to a classmate why reforms were needed in the treatment of prisoners and the mentally ill

5. Conditions in Prisons and Asylums
(1800’s in America)