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The Second Great Awakening
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Reform of Improving Education is Started
Around the 1820's a man named Horace Mann became the supervisor of education in Massachusetts. He started speaking out in towns and villages about the need for public schools. Citizens of Massachusetts responded and voted to pay taxes to build better schools and pay teachers better salaries. Image: By Augustine H. Folsom [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons -
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Reform of Improving Education
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Abolition Reform
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Abolition Newspapers are Started
Many abolitionist newspapers were created in protest such as the Liberator by William Lloyd Garrison, and the North Star by Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass wasn't only a newspaper writer but also was a great public speaker, with a voice like thunder. Angelina Grimke, Theodore Weld, and Sojourner Truth were also very large figures in the abolition movement. Image: By not listed (Picture History) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons -
Abolition Reform is Started
In !835, a poster appeared on the walls of Washington D.C., which questioned the fact that slavery can exist in a "land of the free". The people that were posing this questions were called "abolitionists". Many northerners still accepted slavery in the south thanks to the cheap cotton provided from the south. Blacks and whites worked together as abolitionists from the start. Image: By Michael B. (IWW.org) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons -
Reform of Treatment of Prisoners and the Mentally Ill is Started
In 1841, Dorothea Dix visited a jail to teach Sunday school, but had an unpleasant surprise. She was disgusted by the conditions of the jail, and thought that something had to be done about it. Over the next two years, Dix collected information about the topic and eventually sent in a detailed report to the Massachusetts legislature. Shocked by this report, the lawmakers decided to create public asylums for the mentally ill. Image: {Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons -
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Reform of Treatment of Prisoners and the Mentally Ill
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Reform for Women's Rights
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The Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments
In 1848 two women named Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the Seneca Falls Convention, which produced the Declaration of Sentiments. Almost 300 people attended, including 40 men, abolitionists, Quakers, farmers, housewives, or even factory workers. Image: File:1849-Cruikshank-feminism-caricature-Queens-Bench.jpg
