The Spirit of Reform

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The Spirit of Reform

• 1820s-1840s

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Reform 1

• In the 1820s and 30s, public need for more
  democracy
• Increase in democracy means an increase in
  education
• The need for an informed electorate
• Horace Mann
• Expanded free public education in Mass. in 1830s
• Teacher training for women
• Unequal opportunities
• Fewer than 15 African American college students
  before 1840
  

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Reform 2

• Before 1840s
• Women were considered second-class citizens
• Women could not vote
• They got paid less for the same work
• Professional careers closed to women
• Seneca Falls Convention
• 1848, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  organized a rights campaign
• Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
• (Add women to Declaration of Independence)

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Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady
Stanton Lucretia
Mott

• The Ladies of Seneca Falls

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Reform 3

• Antislavery Movements
• Increase in Democracy decrease in slavery
• Abolitionists- Those in favor of getting rid of
  slavery
• William Lloyd Garrison Immediate freedom WITHOUT
  compensation to the slaveholder
• Divide union if necessary to rid free states of
  the shame in the south
• Frederick Douglass- Self educated former slave
  wrote The North Star
• Underground Railroad hiding places and routes
  throughout the north

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Slavery in the South

• Slave rebellions started popping up in Virginia
  and other Southern states
• Although rebellions were unsuccessful, they
  spread fear through out the South
• Large amounts of hostility towards antislavery
  movements