1825: New Harmony, IN established 1862: Mary Jane Patterson is 1st African American woman to earn a college degree 1830: Book of Morman published 1848: Seneca Falls Convention T HE AGE OF R EFORM 1820 -1860 1836: Texas Gains Independence 1851: Maine bans sale of alcohol MONDAY–02/25/19 8th grade Review….. 3 Column Notes-Social Reform During the early 1800s, many religious & social reformers attempted to improve American life & education & help people with disabilities. Guiding ?: How did religious & philosophical ideas inspire various reform movements? http://www.history.com/shows/the-people-speak/videos/the-people-speak-3#henry-davidthoreaus-civil-disobedience Thoreau’s speech Social Reform Education Reform Abolitionists Lyman Beecher – CT minister, against alcohol, part of Temperance Movement. Horace Mann – lawyer, head of MA Bd. of Ed. 1837 – MA founded nation’s first state-supported normal schools to train teachers Harriet Beecher Stowe – wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin; wrote of injustices of slavery Dorothea Dix – discovered mentally ill people put in prisons; educated public re: poor conditions for mentally ill + prisoners Thomas Gallaudet – developed method to ed. hearing impaired; Hartford School for Deaf, 1817 Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe – helped visually impaired; books with raised print; headed Perkins Institute for Blind in Boston, MA TUESDAY–4/24/12 8th grade Many reformers turned their attention to eliminating slavery. Guiding ?: How did some Americans work to eliminate slavery? http://www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-ofus/videos/harriet-tubman-and-the-underground-railroad#harriet-tubman-and-the-undergroundrailroad ; Harriet Tubman http://www.history.com/videos/the-underground-railroad-frederickdouglass#the-underground-railroad-frederick-douglass Frederick Douglass; http://www.followthedrinkinggourd.org/Music/3Foster,AlexAndMichelLarue.FollowTheDrinkingGourd.mp3 Follow the Drinking Gourd Guiding ?: Why did many Americans fear the end of slavery? Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday — his first day of freedom. http://www.scholastic.com/browse/video.jsp?pID=1640183585&bcpid=1640183585&bclid=6 814353001&bctid=5705791001 book read aloud Social Reform Education Reform Abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison – l829 left MA to work for leading antislavery newsppr. in Baltimore; 1831 started The Liberator in Boston; among 1st white people to call for “immediate & complete emancipation of enslaved people”; 1832 started New England Antislavery Society Sarah & Angelina Grimké – among 1st women to speak out publicly against slavery; took family inheritance in slaves and freed; 1839 Angelina & husband wrote American Slavery As It Is – firsthand accts. of life under slavery David Walker – born a free man in NC; writer in Boston Social Reform Education Reform Abolitionists Frederick Douglass – born enslaved in MD; taught himself to read/write; 1838 escaped to MA; joined MA Antislavery Society – traveled all over speaking at abolitionist mtgs.; edited an antislavery newsppr., North Star for 16 yrs.; traveled abroad to speak in London & W. Indies; 1847 friends helped him purchase his freedom from MD owner Sojourner Truth– born Isabella Baumfree, a slave in NY; 1826 escaped; 1827 officially free when NY banned slavery; 1843 chose new name Harriet Tubman – escaped slavery; became most famous “conductor” on Underground RR Social Reform Education Reform Abolitionists Elijah Lovejoy– edited abolitionist newsppr. In Illinois; 3x angry whites wrecked his presses – ea. time he put in new & continued printing; 4th time mob set fire to bldg. – when he came out they shot/killed him T HURSDAY –02/28/19 8th grade Women reformers campaigned for their own rights Guiding ?: How were the antislavery & women’s rights movements related? Guiding ?: What progress did women make toward equality during the 1800s? *Self-Check Quizzes-Chp. 15 *Reading and Study Guide Social Reform Education Reform Lucretia Mott – Quaker; spoke out for women having greater role in society Susan B. Anthony – called for college training for girls; coeducation Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Jly. 1848 organized Seneca Falls, NY – 1st women’s rights convention - with Lucretia Mott; incl. demand for woman suffrage - right to vote Susan B. Anthony – worked for women’s rights/ temperance; equal pay; organized Daughters of Temperance •Elizabeth Blackwell Mary Lyon – started Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in MA 1837; modeled on Amherst College Elizabeth Blackwell – pursued career as a doctor despite it being an all-male career; graduated head-of-class from college Abolitionists •Lucretia Mott •Elizabeth Cady Stanton
