Horace Mann's Education System

Education Development of a public education system was not put into effect until the 1830s. Interest in such a system grew rapidly within the states. Horace Mann, the greatest in educational reformers, believed that the only way to protect democracy was to create an educated electorate. (Brinkley 332). Mann lengthened the academic year, doubled teachers pay, and enriched the curriculum. While other states went thru the same development the quality of education was still quite different. At the time the United States had one of the highest literacy rates to any other nation but the North and South had very different percentages when compared to one another. Some reformers believed that children should learn from their own wisdom rather than

This resulted in the American feminists movement. Many women began to take part in the reform movements in the 1820s and 1830s. The Grimke sisters, active abolitionists, preached that men and women were created equal. That whatever is right for man to do, it is also right for women. By the 1840s many women became active suporters of the women. They wanted to elevate the status of a women. In 1848 the Seneca Falls convention was organized to discuss on women's rights. The Declaration of Sentiments emerged in the meeting which implied that all men and women are created equally. Another demand was the right to vote with launched to the movemet for woman suffrage. Progress towards their goals were difficult to attain but they did manage to break thru the social

What made these women so unique was that they had first hand experience with the institution of slavery. They were born from a life of luxury, with a social life that would had eventually led to a good marriage. Both sisters chosed to go with the path less traveled. They wanted to free the enslaved and end racial discrimination through the United States. Abolitionist and feminist Sarah and her sister were among the first women to testify before a state legislature on the issue of black rights. In 1837 the sisters made an appearance at the antislavery convention in New York. After the convention they launched a public speaking tour where they expressed their abolitionist sentiments. They drew many different crowds due to the fact that they debated with men, thereby doing away with gender restrictions. "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes", were a series of letters written by Sarah Grimke, where the members of the Congresional General Association expresses their opposition to their writtings in a "Pastoral Letter" that denounced women who had strayed out their gender roles. The letter didnt affect the sisters instead they still held apperances and spoke on their beliefs. The Grimke sisters are placed among the most radical Americans of the nineteenth century who helped shaped the antislavery and abolitionists movements by advocating on women's rights and