Unit 4 Notes 3

1. A southern plantation owner would have been MOST excited about A. interchangeable parts B. the cotton gin C. abolition D. the Seneca Falls Convention

2. What effect did Manifest Destiny have? A. It improved relations between the Unites States

and Mexico B. It made Texas a free republic C. It extended U.S. territory all the way to the Pacific D. It resulted in universal suffrage

1st Reform: Temperance Movement Temperance- Movement to limit or

eliminate the use of alcohol, usually by women and churches

People blamed the following troubles on alcohol: Family violence crime poverty Immoral behavior

 States passed Prohibition laws that

stopped the sale of alcohol! Finally the United States Federal

Government passed one too!The 18th Amendment (1919):

Prohibited the manufacturing, selling, transporting, importing or exporting of alcohol

The 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition

2nd Reform: Abolition MovementAbolition- Movement to end slavery in the

U.S.

William Lloyd Garrison – Founded influential anti-slavery newspaper (The Liberator), helped establish the American Anti-Slavery Society

 Fredrick Douglass-

Former slave, most prominent African-American abolitionist

NORTH:

Abolition movement grew, strengthened

Middle class, educated, white, church members support total ban on slavery

SOUTH:

Economy became dependent on slavery

Wealthy plantation owners push for new states to allow slavery

How did the United States differ?

3rd Reform: Public Schools Horace Mann: reformer who felt education

was essential for democracy. Promoted education for males and females.

 How did education change?

States began training teachers and funding schools. School became mandatory.

 

4th Reform: Women’s Rights

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott- Organized the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, 1848.

Seneca Falls Convention-First women’s rights convention, called for women’s suffrage.

Signed the Declaration of Sentiments, which called for equal opportunity in education, property rights, and voting.

 Suffrage-women having the right

to vote.

Abolition

Temperance

Education

Women’s Rights

A. Horace Mann

B. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

C. Women and church leaders

D. Fredrick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison