chapter 18: an era of reform
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CHAPTER 18: AN ERA OF REFORM. PRISON REFORM: CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM. Jail inmates were in chains & lived in cages. Children were in jail with adult prisoners. Mentally ill were treated as criminals. Insufficient mental hospitals. PRISON REFORM: CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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CHAPTER 18: AN ERA OF REFORM
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PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM
• Jail inmates were in chains & lived in cages.• Children were in jail with adult prisoners.• Mentally ill were treated as criminals. • Insufficient mental hospitals.
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PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM
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PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM
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PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM
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PRISON REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM
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PRISON REFORM:REFORM LEADER
• Dorothea Dix
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PRISON REFORM:REFORMS
• New asylums• State governments stopped placing debtors in prison. • Special justice systems for children• Cruel punishments outlawed
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EDUCATION REFORM:CONDITIONS BEFORE REFORM
• Few areas had public schools.• Schoolrooms were overcrowded.• Teachers had limited education & received little pay.• Most children didn’t go to school.
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EDUCATION REFORM:REFORM LEADER
• Horace Mann
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EDUCATION REFORM:REFORMS
• New York set up public elementary schools. • Massachusetts voted to pay taxes to build better schools, pay teachers higher salaries, & establish training schools for teachers. • By 1850, most white boys attended free public schools.• Public universities accepted women.
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ABOLITIONISM:GOAL OF THE MOVEMENT
• to abolish slavery
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ABOLITIONISM:LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT
• William Lloyd Garrison • Frederick Douglass• Angelina & Sarah Grimke• Sojourner Truth
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WOMEN’S RIGHTS:CONDITIONS BEFORE THE MOVEMENT
• Women could not vote or hold office.• Fathers/husbands controlled women’s money & property.• Husbands could physically discipline their wives.
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WOMEN’S RIGHTS:LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT
• Lucretia Mott• Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Lucy Stone
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SENECA FALLS:GRIEVANCES
• Man did not let woman vote.• He did not give her property, rights, even to her own wages.• He did not allow her to practice professions like medicine & law.
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SENECA FALLS:ADVANCES ACHIEVED
• New York gave women control over property & wages. • Massachusetts & Indiana passed more liberal divorce laws.• Elizabeth Blackwell started her own hospital.• Women eventually were given the right to vote.
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WOMEN’S GRIEVANCESHe has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.
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WOMEN’S GRIEVANCESHe has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.
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WOMEN’S GRIEVANCESHe has so framed the laws of divorce, and to whom guardianship of the children shall be given, in all cases, puts all power into his hands.