Temperance Movement 19th Century

As the eighteenth century was ending, and the nineteenth century was beginning, the start of something no one expect was coming. The start of movements. The nineteenth century until the early twentieth century, were known for its movements across the world. It was a time when people wanted equality among one another, and they felt the only ways to truly succeed in achieving some of their goals was to create a stir. The Temperance Movement was a movement created a group of thirteen women. The Movement started to gain steam by the end of the nineteenth century into the twentieth century. The background behind the Temperance Movement was to reform the consumption of alcohol, or completely abstain from it. The core thirteen women, who were accredited …show more content…
Soon, almost every country in Europe had people vowing to stop the abuse of alcohol within their own communities. Not long after this movement swept Europe by storm, the United States got wind of the movement, and then people from across the seas were pledging their abstinence from alcohol. Needless to say, the women who began the movement for their own personal gain of peace at home, and no more abuse, achieved their objectives. Another movement that gained popularity during eighteenth century was something called the Education Movement. A man named Horace Mann, a native to Massachusetts, started the education movement as a way to help make education more available to children throughout the whole world. He wanted all children, from every corner of the world to at least be given the option to become educated. During this time, schools were far and few between. Some communities did not offer schools because they did not have one close enough by, other schools only offered limited admissions because they were so small, and were unable to hold all the children of the community. Schools, at this time, were paid for by taxes, similar to the structure of public education today. There were also a very small number of private schools, however they were designated for the wealthy people of the …show more content…
She mentioned the prisons and jails were not the places for the mentally ill, they needed to be placed somewhere where they were not being punished because they did not do anything wrong or hurtful. They needed to be cared for, and treated better. During this time, the state of Massachusetts did have one mental hospital, but the costs were too much for the average person. Dix went to the state legislature and shocked the Massachusetts state government with her research. Almost immediately, Massachusetts signed a law to develop mental hospitals for the public sector. Dix was able to achieve her objectives, because she got the mentally ill out of the prison environment and into the hospital setting where they belonged. Women’s rights movement, probably one of the most organized and well executed movements in history, if the not the most. There are actually three waves of the women’s rights movement, but we will start with first wave, which began in 1840. Also, there could potentially be four waves now, with all the recent commotion. Anyway, the first wave began in 1840 when two very brave women named Lurcetia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton were told they were not allowed to attend the Anti-Slavery Convention that was being held in London,