APUSH Social Reformers

William Lloyd Garrison

abolitionist, burned constitution, was okay with union breaking up. Founded the “Liberator”

Frederick Douglass

Abolitionist, North Star Newspaper, formerly enslaved

David Walker

Abolitionist that supported violence

Martin R Delany

thought black people should go to Liberia

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

created women’s rights movement, Seneca Falls convention

Lucy Stone 

Equality in marriage / women’s rights

Sojourner Truth

Women’s rights + abolitionist

Amelia Bloomer

comfortable clothes for women

Horace Mann

Little Red School House/ primary education 

Mary Lyon

Mount Holyoke

Emma Willard

Troy Female Seminary, first women’s college

Neal Dow

temperance

William H McGuffey

series of textbooks for all skill levels ____ readers

Thomas Gallaudet

Deaf school

Dorthea Dix

Mental health reform 

George Ripley

transcendentalists, Brook Farm

John Humphrey Noyes

Oneida Community

Albert Brisbane 

Utopia + associations (cooperative communities) 

David Ruggles

First Black bookstore/library

Seth Luther 

organized workers rights protests

Sylvester Graham

wicked temperance

Theodore Dwight Wells

Abolitionist, bit of women’s rights (supported wife)

Henry David Thoreau

Walden pond, inspired MLK and Ghandhi

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Created transcendentalism

Alexis de Tocqueville

wrote Democracy in America. its going well but it could go bad