With the spark of reform in humanitarian and other concepts, social reforms were being made as well. Education underwent some change at this time. Also, reforms were made because of alcohol abuses.
Horace Mann was a leading figure of reform in public education. Mainly, by creating better builidngs for school meeting, expanding the curriculum that was taught, raised teacher salaries, and better teacher training. Women were now allowed to work and make money as teachers in these new schools.
The temperance movement was an evangelical reform that attacked the abuse of alcohol.
The reformers in this movement believed that drunkenness was the root of all social problems and crimes in America. This gave way to more reform movements and organizations that toured America and gave speeches on the sin of abusing alcohol. These movements reduced the abuses greatly by use of moral pursuasion in speeches for self-improvement.
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