Reform Review

ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT

Goal Harriet Tubman

the immediate, release of all slaves.

• Most famous “Conductor” of the Underground Railroad

• After escaping herself, she made 19 separate trips back to the South and helped about 300 slaves escape to freedom

Frederick Douglass William Lloyd Garrison

• Escaped from slavery at age 20

• Toured the North giving speeches and appearing at public anti-slavery events.

• Supported Women’s Rights Movement

• From Boston• Organized New

England Anti-Slavery Society, 1832

• Went to Europe to gain support for abolition

• Saw slavery as morally wrong

Harriet Beecher Stowe Sojourner Truth

• Born into a religious family of Abolitionists

• Wrote the book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1853 after meeting runaway slaves and hearing their experiences

• Book was a best seller that made many Americans aware of the evils of slavery

• Women’s rights leader & abolitionist

• Former slave• Famous speech, “Ain’t

I a Woman?

WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT

GOAL: to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns.

Seneca Fall Convention Susan B. Anthony

• Seneca Falls, NY, 19-20 July, 1848

• First National Convention for Women’s Rights in U. S.

• Passed 12 resolutions to address the inequality of women

• Susan B. Anthony was a women's rights leader in the late 1800's. She helped lead the way for women’s right to vote in the United States.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott

• Presented it at the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY

• “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal”

• Wrote The Woman’s• Bible—a feminist

translation and interpretation of Scripture

• One of the leaders of the movement to grant American women the right to vote.

EDUCATION REFORM

MOVEMENTGOAL Horace Mann

to make education available to more children.

• American politician and education reformer, best known for promoting universal public education and teacher training in "normal schools."

CARE OF THE DISABLED AND MENTALLY ILL

MOVEMENT

GOAL: to change the awful treatment and conditions for mental patients and disabled people.

Thomas Gallaudet Samuel Gridley Howe

• Worked to improve lives & education of hearing impaired.

• Worked to improve education of visually impaired Americans.

CARE OF THE

DISABLED AND

MENTALLY ILL

MOVEMENT

PRISON REFORM MOVEMENT

GOAL Dorthea Dix

• to improve conditions inside prisons, establish a more effective penal system, or implement alternatives to incarceration.

• Campaigned to improve the treatment of prisoners throughout the country

TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT

GOAL Lyman Beecher

• to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or inspire for complete sobriety.

• One of the best-known and most influential clergymen of his day.

• Said, Alcoholics were“neglecting education of their families—and corrupting their morals”