Reform Movement

Describe the expansionist movement:
-Many Americans look at it as an opportunity to take land such as New Mexico, Texas and Cali.

Describe Manifest Destiny and what people used it to justify:
-Belief that god wanted US to own all of North America, and people expanded towards the west with this movement.

Describe the Temperance Movement:
-Drinking in moderation which many pushed for but some pushed for prohibition.

Describe the Abolition Movement:
-People opposed to slavery began to speak out against it on moral grounds.

Describe the Education Reform Movement:
-Reformers wanted to start public school system from tax money. Started with Horace Mann creating state board in Mass.

Describe the Reform Movement for Women’s rights including the Seneca Falls Conference
-Starts to change as women take role in religious and abolitionist movements. In 1848Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others organize first women’s rights convention called Seneca Fall Convention