Reforms Flashcards
Reformer
William Llyod Garrison
1831 newspaper deliberator Northeast anti-slavery Society
Frederick douglas
Breed slave speaker North Star also supported women’s rights
Sojourner truth
Runaway slave 1827 change name
Harriet tubman
Underground Railroad
Grimke sisters
Southern Sisters move to Philadelphia / became abolitionist
Horace mann
Called for publicly funded education for all children considered the father of public education
Mary Lyon
Founded Mount Holyoke female seminary first women’s college in the US
Temperance movement
1850 main ban on alcohol
Dorothea dix
She opened grade school in Boston route text in history and science improve care for mentally ill hospitals and prisons both at Massachusetts legislature convince all to improve conditions and hospitals change and procedure to place debtors in prison
Elizabeth cady stanton
Daughter NY judge Seneca Falls Convention declaration of sentiments pattern after Declaration of Independence
Susan B Anthony
Women’s rights organizer
Elizabeth blackwell
First woman to attend Middle School school in Geneva New York first in class first woman medical degrees started first nursing school