Antebellum Reform Movements
By: Drew Hockenberry
Temperance: -The movement first tried to make people temperate in their drinking ---the is to make them drink less.
- By the 1820s the movement started to advocate for the total abstinence of all alcohol -- that is to urge people to stop drinking completely.
Women's Rights: - Women resented men giving them secondary roles in reform.
- Women saw taking care of society as an extension of taking care of the home . - Women, like men during the "Era of the Common man" wanted more power in government and society.
Abolition: - Tension over the issue of slavery contributed to the Civil War.
Mental Hospitals
States created mental hospitals, not prisons to give the mentally illl proper help.
Prisons
-Prisoners were treated inhumanely were sometimes jailed just for being in debt.
-Prisons began focusing more rehabilitating prisoners and debtors.
Education
-Education was only affordable for the wealthy.
-Many believed the country could only survive if citizens were educated.
-Horace Mann: pushed for public tax-supported schools with required attendance.