Reforming Reforming American SocietyAmerican Society

Reforming Reforming American SocietyAmerican Society

Efforts to Make America a Better nation,Efforts to Make America a Better nation,1800 - 18501800 - 1850

Efforts to Make America a Better nation,Efforts to Make America a Better nation,1800 - 18501800 - 1850

Reforming American Reforming American SocietySociety

Reform - To change something, to try to make it better

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Slavery & Slavery & AbolitionAbolition

Abolition - The call to outlaw [abolish] slavery in America

William Lloyd GarrisonAbolition

ist

Goal: an immediate end to slavery. Enslaved persons

emancipated [set free], with no payments to the slave owners

Started an ant-slavery newspaper called “The

Liberator”Founder -

“American Anti-Slavery Society”

Frederick DouglassFrederick DouglassDouglass was an escaped slave

that supported Garrison and The Liberator

He often spoke at meetings held by the American Anti-

Slavery SocietyWould publish his own anti-

slavery newspaper, “The North Star”

Douglass published his paper in Rochester, NY. He is buried

in that city

Temperance Temperance MovementMovement

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Americans in the 1800s drank an excessive amount

of alcohol

1830 - consumption of alcohol reached its all-

time high: 3.9 gallons per person

American Temperance Society was formed in

1826.It was dedicated to total

abstinence

Rights for WomenRights for WomenFor much of America’s early history, women were “second-class

citizens”

For much of America’s early history, women were “second-class

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Chapel,site of 1848 convention

The Women’s Rights Movement began with a

convention in Seneca Falls, NY

July 19 - 20, 1848

Declaration of Declaration of SentimentsSentiments

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“We hold these rights to be self-evident; that all

men and women are created equal; that

they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among

these are life, liberty and the pursuit of

happiness . . .

Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton

Stanton was one of the main organizers of the

Seneca Falls Convention

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Stanton, circa 1856

She spent the rest of her life fighting to help women gain equality.

She died in 1902

Stanton and her husband had been

active in the abolition movement