Women's Rights

Sermon from anti-slavery rally with discussion of reasons for women's right to vote - Read the first three pages

Seneca Falls Convention

Anti-Slavery Convention - Read May 17th entry on page six

Timeline of Women's Rights

Picture of Lucretia Mott

Status of women 1890:
Interesting reads:
Page 97 – 104 - Discussion of rape charges
Pg 50 – Maryland legal status of women
Pg 68 - Maryland divorce

Hospital and Prison Reform

Alex Tocqueville's visit to Sing Sing prison in NY

Ohio Historical Society - Read at least the firs three pages.

Alex Tocqueville's visit to a Connecticut prison - Scroll down a bit to read about how America treated its disabled

Dorothea Dix Hospital

National Public Radio - After you read the backgournd information, read Pierce's veto. (Hint: scroll down to the very bottom of his veto and above the listed sources is a summary of his arguments.)

Education Reform

PBS History of Teaching - The timeline and schoolhouse pioneers will be most helpful

Unitarian Universalist Historical Society (UUHS)

Interesting read on Horace Mann's perspective on women - Read first paragraph only under "Second Lecture"

Second Great Awakening

University of Chicago 2nd Great Awakening General Information

Library of Congress

Virginia University – Look under Methodist

Digital History

Workers' Rights

Department of Labor

AFL_CIO(Remember the time period you are investigating)

Temperance Movement:

Primary sources from Wesleyan University

Overview from Ohio History site

Women involvement in Temperance

Christianity and Temperance

Temperance influence on culture