Objectives

Students will:

1. Identify religious and philosophical ideas that inspired reform movements.
2. Discuss why educational reformers thought all citizens should attend school.
3. Explain how education in the 1800s differs from today.
4. Describe the ways some Americans worked to eliminate slavery.
5. Explore the reasons why many Americans feared the end of slavery.
6. Note how the antislavery and women’s rights movements were related.
7. Outline what progress women made toward equality during the 1800s.