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Horace Mann
The father of modern education. Horace Mann. He promoted public education through his campaigns. He is what was known as an educational reformer. He was in the house of representatives, and was the president of Antioch College until he died. He argued that through universal public education was the best way to turn kids into disciplined individuals. This is where the bible was also taught to the children to become good christian boys and girls. -
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Susan B Anthony
Susan was ab abolitionist, educational reformer, temperance worker, and most importantly women's rights campaigner. She was an all around good person for the union and not so much for the confederacy for she promoted things like custody of children, owning of property, women's wages, anti-slavery, better education. All of that and she grew up poor -
Abolitionists
Abolitionists were against slavery. They looked to free all the slaves. Slowly they made their way to abolish slavery. The US abolished slavery in 1865 with the 13th Amendment. They see slavery as a sin to humanity, and they depended emancipation of the slaves. The Free-Soil party was with the Abolitionists to where they were almost the same party like power. This group lead to sour relations between north and south before the civil war. -
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was another abolitionist, he was a writer and promoted anti-slavery thoughts through his writings. Frederick was a former slave who eventually got out. He believed in equality of all humans, no matter of race, color, or ethnicity. He became a preacher in 1839 at a young age. He met with Harriet Tubman -
workers rights
Ten hour work day was reestablished by executive order by Martin Van Buren. 1844 the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association was created. This Labor Reform was about putting women into corporate jobs. The U.S. started to type up papers for other forms of media, which made the U.S. a Typographical Union. Newspapers became wide spread to the masses even further. Strikers for working conditions rose, some of those strikers where killed. Worker Unions arose to create better conditions for them. -
Temperance Movement
The temperance movement was against alcoholism or just the consumption of alcohol. It was a sin to get drunk. A lot of temperance movement personnel were women who also wanted more rights, like voting rights. One of the ways alcohol was used against the men were they couldn't make good decisions because they got drunk all the time. 1842 Lincoln criticized the movement and told them they were too forceful. -
women rights movements
The women's rights movement first started in 1848. They focused their attention on the economic freedom a women should have, as well as the want to vote. They felt that they know politics and changing federal laws so they do have the right to vote. The further north you got, the more prevalent the women's right movement was. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was a former slave who had escaped slavery and helped others like her to escape, where she helped with 70 slaves. Harriet was highly religious christian follower who had many jobs through her life. She worked with other abolitionists and told her story. She escaped in 1849 and died at the age of 90. She never lost a slave and when the fugitive slave act was passed she moved the run away slaves further north. -
medical treatment for the mentally ill
Even though treatments were still horrible and inhumane, there was a significant increase in effectiveness of treating the disorders. The preferred method as Asylums. Being kept in a safe place was away from society helped with keeping other people sane. Hydrotherapy came from this era where they would try to shock the brain out of it's illness with cold water. The better treatments were up north while the south preferred the old ways of just getting it over with. Helped during the civil war. -
education
Public education finally got the growth it needed. Public education started to use standardized tests. to measure the success of education better than before. Public education was popularized by urging people to send their children for a better opportunity than they had. The more people the bigger the school and thus the better the education. Cities had the best while the south didn't have as big of cities so there is part of another division in the U.S. -
the third great awakening
As with the other Great Awakening's there was a high religious influx again. This time it affected the protestants. This created the Social Gospel Movement where they thought Christ would come pact to reshape the earth. These people were against slavery for it is a sin. The abolition of slavery was a key motive of theirs. With the awakening there was more religions created and Christian science was created -
synthesis
Why did all of these things happen? The answer comes from the past of the US. Due to an expansion of machines, this made people have to work more, but also gave them an opportunity to pick something else up and do that, for they had 10 workdays, and didn't have to work to stay alive. There is thus an influx of people who can look at the world and decide things need to change. To take all the evils out and make life easier. Movements were good to the development of the more advanced U.S. -
contextualization
Another point where there was this mass change in how the society got together and worked was in the 20th century. This is where the rights of blacks were on the table, as well as a reduction to an 8 hour workday. The more rights to women was also up for change again. This is where big changes to the United States happened.
