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Fighting Slavery
The first spark of slavery abolision startes with the quakers. They stopped owning slaves in the 1800's. Slavery was stopped in the North but Northerners accepted slaves in the south. Cotton was cheaper when made by slaves. There were many people out to stop slavery. Men and women all around the North started convicing people that slavery was bad. Fredrick Douglas was a famous abolishionist. He spoke against slavery and influenced many people. -
before the education reform
before the reform most kids didn't got to school. Most kids that did go to school only went to school for a short period or time. There were public school but had poorly educated teachers and overcrowded classrooms. Mostly wealthy kids attended private schools. -
Egual Rights for Women -The beggining
women could not vote or run for office. Women could not own land or have property. Lucretia Mott and Elizibeth Cady Stanton were against slavery. They also realized that they were treated like slaves. Women could have a better education than a man but they still had no rights. Lucy Stone spoke out to gain womens' rights after her graduation. women also suffered taxation even though they could not own property. -
Dix make a change
Dorothea Dix made many reports about different prisons. She made a big change with her reports which were sent to the congress to help the mentally ill. -
Dorothea Dix
One day in 1841, Dorothea Dix agreed to teach a sunday school at a jail. She saw that many of the prisoners, the mentally ill and children accused of minor crimes were chained up to walls. she thought to herself, "Are jails like this everywhere?" And they were. Dorothea Dix devoted her life campaigning for better conditions in jails. Dorothea was shocked when she saw how the mentally ill we treated and wanting nothing more than for it to change. -
Declaration of Sentiments
the Declaration of Sentements was made possible by around 300 people. It was a knock-off of the Declaration of Independence but talks about gaining womens' rights. -
Seneca Falls Convention
On July 19, 1848 around 300 people including men showed up to the Seneca Falls convention. Many were abolishionists, Quakers and farmers. While at Seneca Falls, the men and women came up with a document called the Declaration of Sentiments that said that women should have the rights of men. The Declaration of Sentiments was written almost the exact same way as the Declaration of Independence. They were both made to get fair treatment. -
after the education reform
Now most white boys and girls were able to attend free public schools and were provided with better education. Horace Mann helped make this reform possible. He pushed for better and more public schools and helped start lead the movement. After all this work the reform was not complete because african americans were not able to attend the public schools. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB:Education_-_Grad_Hat.svg
