REFORM MOVEMENT PROJECT

EDUCATION

• Movement begun to give all children education
• The leader of the movement was Horace Mann.
• Two famous leaders were Horace Mann and Prudence Crandall
• More schools were built for children

EDUCACTION CONTINUED

• Horace Mann inspired the reform movement for education
• Horace Mann's belief was to have education for every child
• Prudence Crandall established the first African American school
• Prudence's belief was also to have a strong education.

PRISON AND ASYLUM

• The very poor conditions of the prisons started the reform
• Dorothea Dix lead the Prison and Asylum reform
• The goals were to move children with minor crimes away from adult criminals
• Another goal was to build more Mental Hospitals
• Another goal was to improve the conditions the criminals were forced to live in

PRISON AND ASYLUM CONTINUED

• Dorothea Dix gathered information, and persuaded the legislature of
• Several states to build more mental hospitals
• Her beliefs were that even if a criminal, everyone deserved human treatment
• The result was that more mental hospitals were built nation wide

TEMPERENCE

• The goal was to limit or remove the use of alcoholic beverages
• Leader was the American Temperance Society
• They want to change the amount of alcohol in America
• Lyman Beecher proved that alcohol was dangerous to the country
• Carry Nation would carry a hatchet and smash bottles and furniture

TEMPERANCE CONTINUED

• Carry Nation believed that you should not drink alcohol
• Lyman Beecher believed you should drink alcohol
• Received a slight reduce in alcohol consumption

ABOLITION

• This reform movement's goal was to end slavery
• The group was called abolitionists
• William Lloyd Garrison started an abolitionist newspaper
• Fredrick Douglass participated in fiery speeches to people about his life in slavery
• Both of their beliefs were that they would stop at nothing to end slavery

ABOLITION CONTINUED

• The movement inspired Northerns and some southerners to end slavery

WOMENS RIGHTS

• The problems occurred was that women had too little rights, and could not vote to end slavery
• Women abolitionists started the movement
• Their goals were to give women more rights like voting and working in factories
• Two active people were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized a convention and started the women's reform movement

WOMENS RIGHTS CONTINUED

• Their beliefs were that women had just as equal rights as men had
• Most states had changed their laws so women could make an impact

ME AND MY FAMILY ARE SUPPORTING THE WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT