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The birth of industrial society posed many new challenges
for Americans. The mid 1800’s witnessed the birth of
several major movements for social reform. A reform
movement tries to make changes in society to correct
social abuses and to improve living conditions.
•Waves of new
immigrants changed
American society
and culture.
•Millions of Irish and
German immigrants
arrived between
1820-1850
•Many Irish flocked
to cities such as
New York, Boston
and Philadelphia,
while Germans
migrated to
farmland in the
west.
•Irish faced prejudice and discrimination because they were Catholic
Alcohol abuse was widespread among men, women, and children.
Reformers linked alcohol abuse to crime, the breakup of families,
and mental illness.
In the late 1820s, the Temperance movement (a public
campaign against the sale or drinking of alcohol) was started.
In the mid-1800s the spirit of reform made its way to the
classroom. At this time, few children attended school because
of the cost.
Efforts to change this practice were led by Horace Mann,
who would later receive the nickname “father of American
public schools” .
Reformers saw education as a way of solving some of the
problems in society, such as poverty and crime.
Abolitionists were people who were opposed to slavery. In
1807 the Congress abolished the importation of slaves.
Abolitionists were now demanded laws to end slavery in
the South.
William Lloyd Garrison was
a vocal abolitionist and
publisher of the newspaper
The Liberator. He also
formed the American AntiSlavery Society in 1833.
That which is not just is not law.
William Lloyd Garrison
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising
as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate,
I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch,
and I will be heard.
William Lloyd Garrison
The compact which exists between the North and
the South is a covenant with death and an
agreement with hell.
William Lloyd Garrison
Nat Turner led a slave revolt
in 1831 in Virginia. Turner and
his followers killed over 60
whites. Turner was later
captured and executed with
over 70 blacks.
“we do not go forth for the sake
of blood, ours is not a war for
robbery…it is a struggle for
freedom”
Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, lectured against slavery
and quickly became a leader in the abolitionist movement.
In 1847, he started his own antislavery newspaper, North Star.
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do
the things I wanted.
Frederick Douglass
I prayed for twenty years but received no
answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
One and God make a majority.
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Led to an increase
in the abolition
movement
The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses.
Slaves in the United States
used these routes to
escape to free states and
later Canada with the aid of
abolitionists who were
sympathetic to their cause
Harriet Tubman was a
runaway slave turned
abolitionists, who helped
hundreds of slaves escape
along the underground
railroad.