US History Ch 15.3
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Transcript of US History Ch 15.3
U.S. History
Chapter 15: New Movements in America
Section 3: Reforming Society
Prison Reform
•2nd Great Awakening inspired people
•Reform efforts led by middle class women
Prison Reform
• Dorothea Dix: campaigned to improve the treatment of mentally ill people throughout the country
Dorothea Dix
Prison Reform
•Mentally ill jailed with common criminals
•Mental hospitals built
•Punishment of young offenders
•Education of prisoners
Campaigning against Alcohol Abuse
• Alcohol seen as cause of social problems
•Temperance Movement—social reform effort that encouraged people to use self-discipline to stop drinking liquor
Campaigning against Alcohol Abuse
• Lyman Beecher: Alcoholics “neglecting education of their families—and corrupting their morals”
• Some states ban alcohol sales
Lyman Beecher
Education in America
•Poor public education
•Education produces good workers & citizens
•Low expectations
Education in America
• Availability & quality varied
• Teachers untrained young men
• McGuffey’s Readers
McGuffey’s Readers
The Common-School Movement
• Common-School Movement—effort to have children of all backgrounds in the same school
• Horace Mann: leading advocate of movement
Horace Mann
Women’s Education
• Few women had beyond a grade school education
• Catharine Beecher: led women’s education reform
Catherine Beecher
Women’s Education
• Emma Willard: started the first college level institution for women in the U.S.
• Troy Female Seminary—first college level institution for women in the U.S.
Emma Willard
Women’s Education
• Mary Lyon: founder of Mount Holyoke Seminary
• Oberlin College: first co-educational college in the U.S.
Mary Lyon
African American Schools
•Expanded education opportunities
•African Americans attended separate schools
•Rarely attended college
African American Schools
•Oberlin College & Harvard accept African Americans
•Black colleges open
•Few obtained education in South
Teaching People w/ Disabilities
• Samuel Gridley Howe: worked to improve education of visually impaired Americans
• Thomas Gallaudet: worked to improve lives & education of hearing impaired
Thomas Gallaudet