Reform Era & Reformers

Abolitionist.  A conductor of the Underground Railroad.  She made 19 trips into the South & brought over 300 slaves out of slavery.

• Susan B. Anthony
• Harriet Tubman 
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Lucretia Mott

Fought for women’s rights & abolition.  She worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to organize the Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York.       

• Carrie Nation
• Dorothea Dix
• Sojourner Truth
• Lucretia Mott

Abolitionist & fought for women’s rights.  She was an escaped slave that traveled the country speaking for the abolition of slavery, and is most famous for her, “Ain’t I a Woman” speech.

• Sojourner Truth
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony
• Dorothea Dix

Abolitionist & author of the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

• Carrie Nation
• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Susan B. Anthony

Involved in several reform movements including abolition, women’s rights (suffrage), and the temperance movement.  She was once arrested & thrown in jail for voting.

• Susan B. Anthony
• Carrie Nation
• Dolly Madison
• Dorothea Dix

Involved heavily in education reform.  He formed the state board of education, improved the public education system, got training for teachers, and lengthened the school year.

• Henry David Thoreau
• Horace Mann
• Frederick Douglas
• William Lloyd Garrison

Involved in both prison and mental health reform.  She opened 32 hospitals for the mentally ill, improved treatment of mentally ill, improved prison conditions.

• Elizabeth Cady Stant
• Lucretia Mott
• Dorothea Dix
• Susan B. Anthony

He was an abolitionist & transcendentalist.  He wrote “Civil Disobedience”, “Walden”, & “Nature.” 

• Henry David Thoreau
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglas
• Horace Mann

Escaped slave and abolitionist.  He was a powerful speaker/lecturer.  He wrote the North Star newspaper.  He was aid to President Abraham Lincoln.

• Henry David Thoreau
• Frederick Douglas
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Horace Mann

Fought for women’s rights & abolition.  Formed the National Women’s Suffrage Association, organized the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, and helped write the “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments.”

• Dorothea Dix
• Carrie Nation
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Harriet Tubman