Reform Movement

He believed that education was key in a democracy, and that every child should attend school

• Horace Mann

• Henry David Thoreau

Group spread the word about the dangers of alcohol, many believed that the consumption of alcohol led to: addiction, poor health, being poor, and family problems

• Abolitionists Movement

• Temperance Movement

Mentally ill people often were thrown in jail or chained to their beds. Reform that worked to get better treatment for the mentally ill

• Dorothea Dix

• Lucretia Mott

Created his own antislavery newspaper, "The Liberator" and also attended the Seneca Falls Convention.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• William Lloyd Garrison

He was an escaped slave from Maryland who publish an anti-slavery newspaper: The North Star

• William L. Garrison

• Frederick Douglass

A “conductor” would help show runaways which way to go during the night • The most famous “conductor”- a.k.a. “Black Moses”

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

Women were expected to stay at home and not work, were not allowed to serve on juries and could not vote • During this time, the most important role of a woman was to raise children. This reformer worked to change that

• Harriet Tubman

• Susan B. Anthony

They organized the Seneca Falls Convention. This was the first meeting for women’s rights. At the meeting they wrote the “Declaration of Sentiments” which asked for women to be treated the same as men and to have the right to vote

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

• Abigail Adams and Susan B. Anthony

The Transcendentalism movement was led by this man. Transcendentalists believed in listening to your conscience, or your inner voice, to determine what is right and wrong

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Fredrick Douglas

She wrote a novel called Uncle Tom’s Cabin, that brought attention to how evil slavery

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman