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The Reformers

Explore the influential reformers of the 19th century who championed causes such as temperance, education, abolition, and women's rights. Discover key figures like Lyman Beecher, who fought against alcohol, Horace Mann, the pioneer of public education, and Dorothea Dix, who advocated for the care of inmates. Delve into the efforts to abolish slavery led by abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth. Learn about the women's suffrage movement led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony that transformed American society.

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The Reformers

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  1. The Reformers Open Book Quiz

  2. Reformers and their Cause • Lyman Beecher – against alcohol • Horace Mann – Education • Thomas Gallaudet – Special Needs Education (hearing impaired) • Dorothea Dix – Inmate care/prisons

  3. Temperance Movement • Movement to stop the sale, manufacturing, consumption of alcohol. • 18th Amendment – Only Amendment to be repealed with the 21st

  4. Reasons for Temperance • Poverty • Break up of Families • Crime • Insanity

  5. Abolitionist • Reformers who wanted to abolish/end slavery

  6. Abolitionists • William Lloyd Garrison- Pamphlets • Grimke Sisters- Pamphlets • Frederick Douglas- Autobiography • Sojourner Truth – Public Speaking

  7. Three Ways to Help Enslaved People • Underground Railroad • Pamphlets – “The Liberator” • Public Speaking

  8. Women’s Movement • Lucretia Mott- Organized female Anti- Slavery Society • Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Suffrage • Susan B. Anthony – Suffrage • Both ran the Women’s Movement

  9. Seneca Falls Convention • Suffrage • Drafted the “Declaration of Sentiments” • “All men and women are created equal”

  10. Rights worth fighting for: • Education • Suffrage • Marriage/Family Laws

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