Reform Movement Dbq

There were many reasons that led up to the American Reform Movement. The Antebellum period was categorized by the rise of abolition, which is the act of putting an end to slavery, and by the difference of opinions in the idea of abolition. Also, the country’s economy began changing due to the North starting to manufacture goods, because of the Industrial Revolution. Also, the South started to make a huge shift in the economy because of the numerous amounts of cotton that was being introduced. According to Document H, “No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.– Frederick Douglass, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C. (22 October 1883). I believe that this
She began acting like this and helping the mentally ill because she saw how they were treated in a Massachusetts prison. Document I shows that the kids that were naughty got put in a juvenile home, so they could start to behave themselves, and it was like a rehab center. The temperance movement was reform efforts to limit the consumption of alcohol. As shown in Document A, around 1840, in the antebellum period, the annual consumption of alcohol contained in all alcoholic beverages per capita in US gallons was 1 gallon, when in 1830 it was nearly 4 gallons. In Document F, it says “What the bottle does” with a picture of a whiskey bottle. That is because you can't help what you do after you drink alcohol, the bottle/drink decides what you do. The women’s rights movement, showed in Documents B and D shows the women should have equal rights as men, such as equal pay. The women’s rights movement was a movement that demanded equal rights as men. Women’s rights activists demanded all men got, including full control over their body, the right to vote, equal pay, and wished to be first class citizens. Also, women got denied jobs, because those jobs could only go to men
As shown in Document A, around 1840, in the antebellum period, the annual consumption of alcohol contained in all alcoholic beverages per capita in US gallons was 1 gallon, when in 1830 it was nearly 4 gallons. The Temperance movement made a huge difference on alcohol and so on. Before this movement, the drinking led to bad things, such as mental illnesses, poverty, and even crime. In motional sermons, they persuaded people to give up drinking, because it will save their soul. People supported this movement so much, some people destroyed liquor stocks. The Temperance movement ended up spreading to 9 states because it has such an effect on people. Document F shows a propaganda poster on the Temperance movement, it says; “What the bottle does”and what alcohol could do to you. It is a picture of a whiskey bottle and shows what bads things it can do to you. The message is it's saying that you have no control over yourself after you drink alcohol, the alcohol controls you. The asylum reforms were where they built institutes for the mentally ill. A big contributor in this was Dorothea Dix. She once saw mentally ill people in Massachusetts getting beaten and treated awfully, so she tried to help them. She came up with many treatments for them. Her and the reformers believed that they can turn these people’s lives around with these institutes and treatments. Also, Dix wrote a factual information