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Improving Education
Before the reform most childen didn't go to schools, but if they did they only went 10 weeks a year. Few areas had public schools. Schools were paid for by taxes. Before the refom, children had too much time on their hands so a lot of the time they would cause trouble. -
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Secord Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening gave the preachers flocks hope that they could gain forgiveness for their sins. Before, the preachers said that god had already chose who would go to heaven. -
Horace Mann
Horace Mann was the state supervisor of education. He spoke out for the needs of the public schools. He was the father of American public schools -
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave. He was also a very powerful public speaker. Douglass spoke many times about the wrongs of slavery. He quickly became a leader in the abolitionist movement. -
Fighting Slavery
By 1830, there were many abolitionists that were against slavery. Quakers stopped owing slaves in 1776. By 1792, every state north of Virginia had anti-slavery laws. -
Reforming the Treatment of Prisoners and the Mentally Ill
Dorothea Dix was a women who dedicated her whole life to try and change the living conditions of the mentally ill and prisoners. After she had found out that the living conditions were brutal, she went to the state legislatures and got asylums made for the mentally ill and prisons made for prisoners. She did this because before, those prisoners and mentally ill were living together in dirty cells. -
Seneca Falls Convention
300 people arrived at the Seneca Falls Convention, including 40 men. They wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which was modeled after the Declation of Independence. The convention gave women much more rights including the right to vote.
