In may 1964, more than 90,000 students and guests gathered on the university of michigan campus to hear. Education reform was also a key part of the great society. On monday, we are launching the poor peoples campaign. If the individual is not deeply committed to the cause, it will not last, nor will it have to drive to push the much needed moral change. Mott and john greenleaf whittier helped push the idea of immediate. The rhetorical tactics of the american female moral reform society, 18341854 composition, literacy.
Moral reform societies sought to end prostitution and redeem fallen women. Beecher in reply to an essay on slavery and abolitionism were originally printed one by one in the antislavery press and later revised and reprinted in book form. The book the jungle caused roosevelt to push congress to pass many. Closing the floodgate of impurity moral reform, antislavery, and. In this video, kim compares the goals and effects of the progressive reform. In the first volume of their semimonthly periodical, the society asserted that men and women were. Lastly, there was a push for moral reform to make society more orderly and humane.
The progressive era was a time of major reform and change in the united states, that. And on november 2 of that year, more than 8 million women across the. Report of a female moral reform society teach us history. The progressives video the age of empire khan academy. Rape reform in late nineteenthcentury america yale law. This female moral reform society was founded in 1834, and it sought to. Moral responsibility in a rapidly declining society big. The outrage that book generated led to the passage of laws like the pure food. At the same time, all sorts of reform groups were proliferating across the united. A national call for moral revival, a movement of direct action, civil disobedience, voter education and mass mobilization aimed at.
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