Child Rearing (19th Century)

Everyone can agree life has it’s wonderful and egregious moments. Some people have a grand life with insufficient negativity. Others people have a miserable life and non imposing. In the late 1800’s and beginning to mid 1900’s, child labor caused several children to have an inimical life rather than a preeminent life. When people read what these children had gone through, they fail to remember to put themselves in the children’s situation; therefore, they don’t understand, nor cease how horrendous life was for the children. Numerous factual documents state how deplorable life was for the children during this era. Furthermore, these documents include the Union-made Cigars, Finding of the Commission, the Law of 1913, the letter from WPA Teacher Union to Governor Lehman, and lastly a telegram from Mrs. of Nassau County to Governor Lehman. Schools today teach this time period to the students and share innumerable certainties of the children’s lives. Ultimately, children in this life span had an atrocious duration.

During the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s child labor was a social issue that developed in the United States. In the early 1900’s, so many children ages 16 and under were working in American mine and factories. Our kids should not be forced to work at such an early age, they need education and a good childhood that they will always remember. Some children that are as young as 4 years old are being forced to work in crammed, dangerous factories. These factories are full of poisonous fumes and diseases that can obviously kill. Kids as young as 13 are being forced to work around 13 hours a day. Working these 13 hours is exactly what most adults are working at the time. Kids are also earning a lower wage since they are minors, employers

Child labor was very common and popular especially in the late 1800s and early the 1900s even though many people were not aware of the dangers. We can define child labor as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and cause to their physical and mental development. Children are the base of a country but in a developing country child labor is an issue that has yet to disappear. Most of the children remain illiterate because of their poor economic condition and parents do not have enough money to spend on the education of their children, rather they send their children for work so that they could earn some money during their poor economic condition. The objective of my research paper is to raise awareness

Throughout the 1700’s and the early 1800’s child labor was a major issue in American society. Children have always worked for family businesses whether it was an agricultural farming situation or working out of a family business in some type of workplace. This was usually seen in families of middle or lower class because extra help was needed to support the family. Child labor dramatically changed when America went through the Industrial Revolution. When America’s industrial revolution came into play, it opened a new world to child labor. Children were now needed to work in factories, mills, and mines. These were not ordinary jobs for young children, these jobs required much time, effort, and hard work. “American

“By 1830, the average American over 15 years old consumed nearly seven gallons of pure alcohol a year – three times as much as we drink today” (PBS, nd). The result was the temperance movement. The Temperance movement was an anti-movement that swept across the country in the 1830s and 40s. The abolitionists tried to show that drinking alcohol was a sin and that the country needed to be cleansed. They called for a prohibition of alcohol. On January 17th, 1920, an amendment to the constitution was passed that banned the making, transporting, and selling of alcohol and other intoxicating beverages.

In 1845, the Godey’s Lady’s Book published an article titled “maternal instruction”. The article purpose was to make the American public aware of the need for equal education to women. The role of mother did not only meant to bear children, but also to educate them to a symbol of society.During the start of the 19th century, American males want the newly freed states to increase the citizen patriotism and intelligence to their country. Since women were child’s fist teacher, woman’s education needed to be more proficient. Mary Wollstonecraft’s novel was a role model for American education and family life. In her novel, Wollstonecraft explains how aside from a woman’s duty as a female, she also has the job to educate her child. However, the female sex has limits for the amount of knowledge passed, and the lack of knowledge restricts a mother ability to educate her child. However, mothers are nit the only females that need to be well educated. Daughters have to get a proper education not only to become a good mother but also good

When alcohol is integrated into a society, it is consumed in organized situations that adhere to community norms. Situations such as "family meals…weddings, funerals, ordinations, church raisings, court days, militia training days, corn husking, and haying all required ample amounts of alcohol" (Blocker 4). Alcohol was frequently brewed at home, making it a noncommercial, wholesome drink. The consumption also did not lead to a growing temperance movement because it was difficult to see the drunkards outside where they could be problem. At this point in American history, the drunkards were distributed in isolated farms instead of concentrated streets in cities and towns (Ezell 69 pg 169 of american temperance book). Alcohol was consumed among both women and men, children and adults, and in family or community environments, so it was not seen as an importunate issue within the colonies.

Women in the nineteenth century, for the most part, had to follow the common role presented to them by society. This role can be summed up by what historians call the “cult of domesticity”. The McGuffey Readers does a successful job at illustrating the women’s role in society. Women that took part in the overland trail as described in “Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey” had to try to follow these roles while facing many challenges that made it very difficult to do so.

People in the early 19th century, which the period following the America revolution that people drank a large excess of the alcohol. Because of this, many economic and social problems happened at that time. For example, there caused a vast amount of traffic accidents and the violence. Also, if it happens to the family members, such as men who are the workers, it will primarily affect the family incomes and the development of their children. Therefore, the temperance movement

Throughout the years 1825-1850, reformers in America sought change and worked to get it. Through the formation of new groups, propaganda, and books, American reformers took to supporting their own cause. America saw many movements that sought to provide positive reformation in areas such as temperance, slavery, government, penitentiary, and women’s suffrage; and though not all of these movements were immediately successful, they were able to expand upon democratic ideals. One reform movement that sought change during this time period were those who believed in temperance. Alcohol had become very popular since the colonization of America, but in the early 1820s, reformers began to attack drunkenness as a corruption to society.

My answer is “No” because there would not be any kinds of reform movements of the mid-19th if the Second Great Awakening did not happen. The Second Great Awakening differed from the First one in that point people were believed to be able to choose whether or not to believe in God, as opposed to previous ideals based on Calvinism and predestination. According to Charles G. Finney, he mentioned that when the churches are awakened and reformed, the reformation and salvation of sinners would follow. Finney had been impacted by the Second Great Awakening ideals.

He was born in a Dutch community. Van Buren had been interested in government since the age of 14; he attended a college near his community and had graduated with great enthusiasm. Kinderhook, New York greeted a new-born child on December 5th, 1782. His parents were Abraham and Maria Hoes Van Buren. Martin had moved to New York City, New York. Not long after he had been admitted to the bar (meaning he became a lawyer) without the benefits of any higher education out of high school. Van Buren married a woman named Hannah Hoes, his distant cousin, and she died 18 years before he became president. Together they had 4 sons. Martin Van Buren had attended Claverack College for which he

One major movement was the temperance movement. In colonial America, informal social controls in the home and community helped maintain the expectation that the abuse of alcohol was unacceptable. There was a clear consensus that while alcohol was a gift form God its abuse was from the Devil. As the colonies grew from a rural society into a more urban one, drinking patterns began to change. As the American

The War on Liquor was a reform movement that sought to eliminate the heavy drinking and drunkenness which was believed to have contributed to the immorality and corruption of American society. The lead organization crusading for the abstinence of alcohol was the American Temperance Movement, which sought to demonize the usage of alcohol and target the working class. Spurred on after the Panic of 1837, the temperance movement continued to gain popularity, and with the creation of the Martha Washingtonians, the cause War on Liquor became a new platform for women to voice their displeasure over the drunkenness of males. The temperance movement succeeded in lowering the rate of alcohol consumption, and eventually, they would also succeed in engineering

When a child is born its mind is a blank slate which means no reason or knowledge this is where the guidance of the parents are required and necessary in order to put the child on the right path. Some important factors have to be considered when talking about the welfare of a child for example equality among both parents, pursuit of happiness, proper knowledge of our human and natural rights etc. another very important factor is education not only for the child but also for the parents most especially the female species. This brings me to the fact that this paper will argue on the notion that the education of a child falls on the male as a result of women being viewed as intellectually inferior. In order to expand more on this I will bring