Reformers US 1 Honors

Horace Mann

a pioneering American educational reformer often hailed as the "Father of American Education"

Dorothea dix

was a prominent 19th-century American activist who revolutionized the treatment of the mentally ill and served as the Superintendent of Army Nurses during the Civil War. 

William Lloyd Garrison

a radical American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer who led the moral crusade against slavery in the United States. He is most famous for his uncompromising stance on immediate emancipation, rejecting gradual approaches to ending slavery. 

The Liberator

A weekly radicalized aboltionist newspaper founded and created by William Lloyd Garrison

Mormons

A group of people that go to church which is also known to be a restiorantionist movement ceated by Joseph Smith in 1830

Transcendentalism

19th-century American movement that emphasized self-reliance, individual intuition, and finding truth through nature rather than society or institutions.

Temperance

a 19th-century reform movement that encouraged people to reduce or completely stop drinking alcohol to improve moral behavior and society.

Abolitionism

19th-century movement dedicated to ending slavery and securing freedom for enslaved people.

Women’s rights

a movement advocating for equal legal, social, and political rights for women, including the right to vote, own property, and receive an education

Educational reform

a 19th-century movement aimed at improving schools, making education more accessible, and promoting public schooling for all children.

Asylum and Penitentiary Reform

a movement in the 19th century that sought to improve prisons and mental hospitals, focusing on humane treatment, rehabilitation, and moral guidance

Henry David Thoreau

a 19th-century American writer and philosopher known for Walden and his ideas on simple living, nature, and civil disobedience.

Nat Turner

an enslaved African American who led a violent slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831.

Second Great Awakening

a early-19th-century religious revival in the U.S. that emphasized personal salvation, emotional preaching, and social reform.

Cult of Domesticity

a 19th-century belief that women’s proper role was in the home, focusing on piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness.

Frederick Douglass

a former enslaved African American who became a leading abolitionist, writer, and speaker advocating for the end of slavery and equal rights.

Working Conditions

he environment, hours, safety, and treatment of workers, which reformers in the 19th century sought to improve during the Industrial Revolution

Ralph Waldo Emerson

a 19th-century American essayist and philosopher who promoted individualism, self-reliance, and the connection between humans and nature

Harriet Tubman

an African American abolitionist and former enslaved person who helped hundreds escape slavery through the Underground Railroad.

The North Star

an anti-slavery newspaper founded by Frederick Douglass to advocate for abolition and African American rights.

Declaration of Rights and Women

a document from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention that called for equal rights for women, including the right to vote.

Utopian Society

a community organized in the 19th century to create a perfect society with shared property, cooperative living, and social reform ideals.