In which ways did reformers attempt to change social institutions?
ART
PRISONS AND ASYLUMS
EDUCATION
TEMPERANCE
Artistic beliefs and values changed
Asylum reform
Dorothea Dix
Mental asylums were built
Prisoners and mental patients were treated more humanely
Idea of rehabilitation of inmates
Education reform
Schooling for free blacks
Greater access to higher education for women
Education for the common man and woman
Common school movement
Horace Mann
Drinking alcohol is seen as immoral and a waste of money
Hundreds of temperance groups were formed by men
Wives formed their own temperance groups as their husbands spent too much money on alcohol but they couldn't join men's groups
Woman's Temperance Convention
Prohibition National Convention
Prohibition laws that outlawed producing and drinking alcohol
Belief in natural goodness of man
Sincerety, spontaneity, faith in emotion as markers of truth
Affirmation of the values of democracy and the freedom of the individual
Interest in the "antique"