Chapter 8 Social Reform

This ex-slave led over 300 escapees to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

• Frederick Douglas

• Nat Turner

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

This abolitionist leader published the newspaper The North Star.

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglas

This woman authored the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, selling 300,000 copies in 1852.

• Carrie Nation

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Susan B Anthony

This man founded the first school for the hearing impaired.

• Samuel Gridley Howe

• Thomas Gallaudet

• Horace Mann

• John Brown

This led the common(public) school movement in the United States.

• Horace Mann

• Thomas Gallaudet

• Samuel Gridley Howe

• Frederick Douglas

This abolitionist leader published the Liberator in 1831 in support of the abolitionist movement.

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglas

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Nat Turner

This reformer brought changes to the prison system in America.

• Emma Willard

• Elizabeth Blackwell

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Dorothea Dix

This woman led the American Women's Rights Movement and cofounded the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.

• Carrie Nation

• Harriet Tubman

• Emma Willard

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

This man developed the first school for the blind in America.

• Thomas Gallaudet

• Horace Mann

• Samuel Gridley Howe

• Joseph Smith

This reformer urged woman to keep their maiden name in an effort to demonstrate their independence.

• Lucy Stone

• Emma Willard

• Lucretia Mott

• Carrie Nation