The+Reform+Movements+(Citizenship)

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** The Reform Movements (Citizenship)The Reformers ** ** The reform movements was a time when people tried to make something better. Many important reform movements came about at this time. Sojourner Truth said that we the womens should have rights. She spoke this words 'We all have our rights and you can't stop us from them' she said those words on the womens rights convention in 1853. Some people disagreed with her. Others agreed with her.Sojourner Truth was reform in the mid-1800s. Reformers made conventions all over the United States Another important reformer was Susan B. Anthony she fought for woman's rights. Women could not vote, and most were not allowed to speak in public either. But Susan B. Anthony traveled across the country, giving powerful speeches and working to change laws.(Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped too. Horace Mann led efforts to provide textbooks increased pay and training for teachers,and build schoolhouses. Dorothea Dix she led a movement to help the mentally illed people. Dix wrote state leaders to say mentally ill people should not be put in jail,and she founded hospitals for their care.  Frances Elizabeth Willard worked for temperance, woman rights, prison reform,and education reform. **======



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[|www.gogrolier.com]/Susan B. Anthony [] Social Studies textbook(390-393)

Watch this fun video!!!!!! It also have some slaveary history and womens rights.

http://www.history.com/shows/the-people-speak/videos/aint-i-a-woman#aint-i-a-woman

http://www.history.com/shows/the-people-speak/videos/aint-i-a-woman#the-people-speak-3