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Slave Trade Ends
After slave trade ended in 1808, northern shipping was no longer interested in slaves. Slavery ended in the early 1800's in the North, but they still liked the cheap cotton that the South provided. -
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The Reform Movement
Revival of religious feeling sweeps across the nation of the united states. (1820) -
Second Great Awakening Starts
The second great awakening was a timeof religious revival in the United States. This was a time when preachers told their people that everyone could gain forgivness from God to go to Heaven. Other than the Christian ministers telling their people that God had already decided. -
Improving Education
Education was a problem in the early 1820's, Horace Mann led a movement to improve education for other children in America to make school more available for them. By the 1850's, many states in the West and North used Mann's idea's. Soon white children, mostly boys attented public schools. But, schools was still not open for everyone. -
Fredrick Douglass
Fredrick Douglass was a huge leader in abolishing slavery. He preached and taught people the horrible realities of slavery and what slaves have to go through. He started his own newspaper The North Star and taught people the same things he was teaching others. -
Equal Rights for Women
Many women thought that slavry should be made illeagal and made lots of arguments to try and end it, although no one listened. Women were leagally allowed to own their money it was owned by the farther or husband. they were also not allowed to vote. In 1840 women started a movement to attemp to end slavery. -
Model Communities
The model communities were made to show how to live in "brotherly cooperation". Instead of fighting over important items such as food and housing, they worked together to create better housing, farming, and education. -
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix was a boston women, she made seccessful acts in helping the mentally ill. She approved to teach at a sunday school and saw how many inmates there were of mentally ill. she wrote up a detailed report to the massachusetts state legislatures to change peoples mind about the mentally ill. she thought the ill need to be cared for and have bettter treatment. the report made a change, now mentally ill are cared for in mental hospitals in many states.
