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Social Reform in Antebellum Era
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Womens Rights
Rights of women reprinted -
Dorthea Dix Birthday
Dorthea Dix born she is one of the main reformers of the prison reform. -
Temperance societies
Temperance societies began to emerge, They used different tactics to persuade people to stop drinking alcohol. -
Auburn Prison Disaster
Prisoners committed suicide when being in solitary confienment. -
Troy Female Seminary
Emma Willard opened Troy Female Seminary -
American Temperance Society was found by evangelical ministers
American Temperance Society was found by evangelical ministers. The American Temperance Society used tactics like handing out newspapers and tracts and organizers to spread information about abstinence. It had over 1.5 members that joined the group. -
First Prison Reformed
The Eastern Pennsylvania Penitentiary was reformed. Every prison had its on yard so the inmates could exercise. -
Young Drinkers
Each American 15 and older were drinking 6.6 to 7.1 gallons of hard liquors every year and suffered from deaths and diseases -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton graduated from Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminar -
Oberlin College
Oberlin college opened -
American Temperance Union
American Temperance Union was founded, it was a group of members who were activists in the Temperance Movement. -
Mary Lyon
Mary Lyon found Mount Holyoke college -
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met in London at the World Anti-Slavery Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott started to discuss women’s rights and organize the convention. -
Washingtonians
Temperance experienced a minor revival in the hands of activists called the Washingtonians who directed their appeal to the working and lower middle classes. -
Dorothea Dix Reports Prison Conditions to Lesgislature
Dorothea Dix submitted a report of how the conditions were in jails to the Massachusetts legislature. -
First Three Women to Graduate
First three women graduated from Oberlin college -
Michigan Prison
Michigan outlawed the death penalty. -
Declaration of Sentiments was written at the Seneca Falls Convention
The Declaration of Sentiments was the document created with the rights that women should have and it was written during the Seneca Falls Convention and later put into place. -
Seneca Falls Convention and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Arranged Seneca Fall's convention -
Start of the Seneca Falls Convention
Seneca Falls Convention was the meeting discussing the rights of women and looking over the Declaration of Sentiments -
Discourse on Women
Elizabeth Cady Discourse on Womendy Stanton gave speech called -
Women’s Rights Petition was signed by women in New York
The petition created for women to be able to have the rights submitted in the Declaration of Sentiments was signed by the women in New York at the time -
Lucy Stone and her property
Lucy Stone gave up her property because she had no rights in 1858. -
Lucy Stone
Lucy stone gave up her property so she wouldn’t have to pay taxes to a government in which she had no rights. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting -
Women were Granted the Right to Vote
The Declaration of Sentiments was verified and put into place which gave women their rights including the right to vote.
