SQ 2: In which ways did reformers attempt to change social institutions?
TEMPERANCE
EDUCATION
Comman School Movement
Schooling for FREE African Americans
Higher Education for Woman
feminist always wanted a greater opportunity for woman's education.
antebellum reform movement
provide a more centralized and efficient school system, one that would assimilate, train, and discipline the emerging working classes and prepare them for a successful life in an industrial society.
schooling would be available to all citizens to prevent more problems for citizens facing the new republic.
African Americans couldn't go to school.
if the African Americans were enslaved it was illegal to teach them.
it was very hard for African Americans to find schooling to learn how to read and write.
Schooling would be free because of sate taxes
young woman were allowed to be in public or common schools. but woman were still denied education opportunities in every level of schooling.
in 1830s, the woman lit was 1/2 of mens.
many Americans were living in an immoral manner.
These people feared that God would no longer bless the United States and that these ungodly, people were a threat to America's political system.
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limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
ARTS
poetry
paintings
literature
"transcendentalist" style gave way to "American Romanticism"
Thanatopis
Progressive ideals gathered support + expansion as a national "pillar"
Shifts towards a more realistic tone
Natural Forms
Very Descriptive
"Romanticism" was used
PRISONS AND ASYLMS
shaped mental health profession
natural American Beauty
realisic
Got back to the U.S. and toured jailhouses, almshouses, and poor houses in New England to collect observations of patients with mental illness
in England, she met Elizabeth Fry, a prison reformer, and Samuel Tuke, whose family had owned a treatment facility for the mentally ill. Both of these people influenced her
was a teacher, but when her mental health interfered, her physician suggested she traveled abroad in order to receive treatment
mentally ill people in these facilities were treated extremely badly
Temperance Movement
Dorothea Dix
she became an activist for prisoners with mental illnesses
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persuaded government to create and fund the building of mental institutions
was the main player in the building and creation of mental institutions and created a better understanding of mental illness and how to treat it