Chapter 8Section 3

REFORMING SOCIETY Change People

FYISociety looked to the churches to fix problems of society

Temperance/Alcohol

1. Problems a. poverty

b. crime

c. abuse

d. disease

Why Drink

a. West = isolation/lonelinessb. East = social

Temperance Movement

a. Alcohol is evilb. Hard Liquor = little beer and wine

Clay County, Alabama's Last No-Alcohol County, Votes Dry, Drinks Wet

c. Maine= first prohibition lawd. Option Law=each town

decides-wet/dry

Prison

1. Problems a. Mentally ill/ Prisoners/ Orphans b. Mineshafts, Cages, Abandoned buildings

Improvements

a. Rehabilitate

b. Solitary Confinement

c. Silence on work crews

EducationProblems

a. Educated public

b. Trained teachers/ministers

c. Rural children=no attend school

d. One room for all ages

Improvements

a. Trained teachers

b. Double salary

c. Mandatory attendance

d. Reading, writing, arithmetic

Women’s Education

a. Girls boarding school= Emma Willard

b. Mary Lyon High School Women only

c. Elizabeth Blackwell= 1st. Medical degree

Women’s Rights

1. Problems

a. Propertyb. World is dangerousc. True Womanhood

Improvements

a. Margaret Fuller = Equality

b. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth C. Stanton= Seneca Falls Convention

c. Laws = women get property

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****Using only 20 words, you are to summarize the social reform movements.A date (January 10, 1831) and a proper noun (person’s name, organization)= 1 blank

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