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"