Chapter 18 - The Era of Reform 2021

Sojourner Truth

a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women

Dorothea Dix

A reformer who worked to improve the conditions of the mentally ill and prisoners

Abolitionist

A person who wanted to end slavery

Frederick Douglass

an important leader in the abolitionist movement. Started a newspaper, the North Star, that highlighted the atrocities of slavery.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

An activist who organized the first convention on women's rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848.

Seneca Falls Convention

The gathering of supporters of women's rights that launched the movement for women's right to vote

Horace Mann

"Father of the public school system"; a prominent proponent of public school reform, & set the standard for public schools throughout the nation.

reformers

people who work to correct failings or injustices; they make changes for the better

obstacles for women wanting to abolish slavery

could not vote, could not speak in public and had no representation in government

reformers were able to spread their messages

through newspapers, conventions and public speeches

William Lloyd Garrison

Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.