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-African Americans who were free usually lived in segregated communities in the north.
-Philadelphia was founded by the Quakers.
-In 1855, Boston allowed the African Americans to go to school with white children.

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-Only some free African-Americans attended school in the North and South, not many were able to go to school in the south.
-Laws in the South did not allow enslaved people to get an education.
-Some slaves were able to learn how to read and write on their own.
-Slaves were fearful that education might encourage a spirit or revolt among enslaved African-Americans.

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-Many children worked in factories or on farms in order to help their families.
-If children could read the Bible, write, and do simple math, that was thought to be enough.
-Girls could go to school, but parents usually thought that girls needed little education and kept them home.

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-Catharine Beecher started an all-female academy in Hartford, Connecticut.
-The first college-level educational institution was the Troy Female Seminary (New York), which was opened in 1821.

-The first college-level educational institution was the Troy Female Seminary (New York), which was opened in 1821.

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-Dorothea Dix was a reformer who fought to change the prison system. She spoke about the horrors that she witnessed while visiting mentally ill people who were jailed with criminals
-Massachusetts government built facilities for the mentally ill. So her actions were in the end worth it.

-More than 100 state hospitals were built to give professional care to the mentally ill people.

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-Groups like the American Temperance Society and the American Temperance Union helped spread a message that was along the lines of, Drink less.

-Minister Lyman Beecher told citizens and people that alcohol was evil.
-Beecher's statement was, "neglecting the education of the families – and corrupting their morals.”

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-New England had many schools while the South and West had not many.
-students of all ages and levels were taught in one room.

-Social background and wealth affected the quality of education. Wealthy families could afford to send their children to private school and/or hire tutors. Poor children had only access to the public schools.

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-People in the common-school movement wanted children taught in a common place, and not affected by background.
-In 1837, Horace Mann convinced the state of Massachusetts to double its school budget and raise teachers’ salaries.
-He lengthened the school year and began the first school for teacher training.

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-Prisons held runaway children and orphans, and the children would only survive if they stole or begged for food. If they were caught they were punished the same punishments as adults.
-In the 1820's, several state and local governments founded reform schools for children.
-Children lived under strict rules and learned useful skills.

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-The Temperance Movement was created after some people drank way too often.
- The reform urged people to use self-discipline to stop drinking hard liquor.
-Many people believed that he alcohol was socially affecting people, and that it was making problems like family violence, poverty, and criminal behavior.

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-During the 1790's and 1800's some Americans took part in a christian renewal act called the Second Great Awakening.
-Charles Grandison Finney was one of the most important leaders of the movement.
-Finney held revivals, and emotional prayer meetings that lasted for days.

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-The movement had started in the Northeast, upstate New York and through the frontier regions of Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina.
-The First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion allowed ministers to spread their messages to whoever wished to listen.
-Many new church members were women and African-Americans.