Antebellum Reform

1630s-1640s

1730s-1740s

1830s-1840s

Undermined traditional sources of authority

Caused an immediate declaration of independence from colonies

Increase in religion inspired strong religious rhetoric of the American Revolution

Contributed to the idea that people should be accountable for participation in government if they were accountable for their salvation

immediately caused a Civil War between the North and South

inspired reform initiatives to reshape society in the young US

ensured women's equality in the 19th century

Enslaved people should enter the public school system

Schools be created that were state funded and mandatory

Colleges should be developed

Schools be privately funded and optional

gain the right to vote for women.

end slavery.

reform mental institutions and prisons.

abolish alcohol consumption.

borrowed its language and structure with revisions to include women

burned it to protest women's oppression

ancestors of the Committee of Five who spread awareness

Temperance.

the American System.

Abolition.

women’s suffrage.

Federalist Papers drafted after the Constitutional Convention

Monroe Doctrine drafted by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams

Declaration of Sentiments drafted at the Seneca Falls Convention

Emancipation Proclamation issued during the American Civil War