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Reform Movements, : - Coggle Diagram
Reform Movements
Abolition
Harriet Tubman
Escaped slavery at 19
Famous abolitionist born into slavery
Helped people escape through the Underground Railroad
Earned the nickname Moses
Fredrick Douglass
Member of the American Anti-Slavery Society
supported Underground Railroad
William Lloyd Garrison
Created a newspaper called The Liberator
Created Anti-Slavery Society
made an anti-slavery newspaper
spoke out agents slavery
Temperance
Carrie Nation
Strongly against alcohol.
Would go to bars with a hatchet.
went to jail for this many times
She would destroy the alcohol.
Fight to ban alcohol
First times that women joined together to fight for something
The problem
Alcohol could ruin the life of an entire family.
Hospitals & Prisons
Prisoners were treated poorly
criminals housed by the mentally ill.
8th Amendment protected prisoners
Dorothea Dix
Taught the mentally ill
Led the prison reform movement
used Private and Public prisons to document conditions
Witnessed the horrible living conditions
Women's Rights
National women suffrage association
created in order to change federal law
could have right to vote and run for office
colorado first state to allow women to vote
wasnt until August 26, 1920 the consitution made law women allowed to vote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucrieta Mott
organized meeting for women to improve society
Labor
Leonora Barry
Reporter of poor working conditions
Part of Knights of Labor
Knights of Labor
Demanded better working hours, pay, etc.
Over 700,000 members
Education
Horace Mann
wanted students to be taught by a trained teacher
wrote about the importance of education
Made sure that all kids had an education no matter their wealthiness
- made women gain the right to go to school
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