Society, Culture, and Reform, 1820-1860 Questions
According to Horace Mann benefits of free public schools were tied to the individual and society. He said an educated people is always a more industrious people, and that intelligence is a primary ingredient in the wealth of nations. The more educated people were the more prosperous America will be. Its is also a necessity and a right for a child to be educated. not to would be the equivalent of a death sentence.
According to the Seneca Falls document, multiple deserving rights of women were being repeatedly abused at the time. Men had banned women form the right of elective franchise. They also had to submit to laws, in which they had no say in. Women had less right s than a foreigner who just entered the country. When a woman was married se was civilly dead, and also was forfeit to here rights of property. women also were not allowed to attend college for a higher education. They were subjected to a different set of morals, and excluded from society.
Henry Highland Garnet’s position compares quite similarly to that of the abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass. They all believed in the abolition of salves and called for immediate action to do so. Garnet believes that “you had far better all die -die immediately, than live slaves, and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.” he wanted something to be done about the issue, because african americans were citizens, but were treated as much lower than that.
Orestes Brownson was critical of contemporary reformers who advocated only individual or "internal" change because it did not help everyone and people were still left “to toil”. Those who only were seeking personal reform were not helping the common good of the country. He believed there should be no rich upper class, and poor working class. he wanted equality of all men and people to be able to live happily and