19th Century Reform Movemnet

Charles FInnley

• was the most famous preacher of th time

• he spread word about personal salvavtion

• worked on womens rights, school refomrs, and abolition of slavery

• he rejected the calvanistic belif that god premitted one salvation or domination (hell or heaven)

• part of revivalism (rivival)

• inspired emotion religious faith

Emerson and Thoreau

Emerson

• was a new england writter

• lead a practicing group of transcendentalism which is a philosophical and litetary movement that focused on a simple life and celebrate truth found in nature

Thoreau

• practice self reliance

• abondine communty life

• he advised readers to follow inner voices and not obey laws

• civil obedence

Dorothea Dix

• did not like that the mentally ill were jailed

• emphasied that idea of rehabilatation, and treatment

• belied that the mentally ill could have a usuefull poisition is soceity

• she presued nine southern states to have hostpitals for the mentally ill

Horace Mann

• belived that enriching the inda and giving knowledge would helo the repulic not go down in destruction

• established teacher programs

• double dthe budget for schools.

Willaim Lloyd Garrsion

• had a newpsaper called the The liberator in 1831

• emancipation- the feeing of saves with no payment towards slaveholders.

• he fonded the new england Anti- Slavery Society followed by the National American Anti Slavery Society

• he attack churches and goverment for failing to condom slavery

Fredrick Douglass

• was a slave was taught how to read and write and belived that knowledge was the way to freedom

• decided to escape

• he loved the Liberator and decided to make a own paper called the North star

• he spoke at convetions and told his story to get people to be on the side of Anti slavery

Nat Turnner

• belived he could lead his people out of slavery

• he attacked plantations and killed alomost 60 whites

• got captured by state troops

• retalations from white followed by the killing 200 backs

• exucuted and strengthened whites in the south

Angellica and Sarah Grimhe

• daughter of a south carolina slave holder and they spoke for abolation

• they were scare dthat there dad was going to go to hell for having slaves

• in process she raised money, distrubted literature and collected signatures

• ran a school for laddies and made letter of equality

Elizabeth Cady Staton

• timed marrage so she could attend a Anit Slavery convention

• then met a friend Lucria Mot and created the society of womens right and had a first convention

National Trade Union

• jurney men formed unions specific to a type of trade like carpiting, shoemakers, comb makers, and printing

• theese trade unions were made aa union

• and the trade union faced bankers and owner with there own unions

• helped improve working conditions

John Brown

• belived that violence was the way to win the debate

• ofdered slaves a way to fight

• cause the slave upsrising

Harriot Stowe

• visited a slave state and was appollled by what she saw.

• she wrote uncle sams

• wrote iwth emotion for readers to feel the cruelty of slavery

• connected with loss of her so