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WORK ON YOUR PACKET!!!!!. Reformers of the 19 th Century. Susan B. Anthony (Abolitionist/Women’s Rights). Accomplishments: Traveled and spoke all over the country against slavery and for women’s right to vote (suffrage) Why did they matter? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Reformers of the 19th Century
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Susan B. Anthony(Abolitionist/Women’s Rights)
Accomplishments:Traveled and spoke all
over the country against slavery and for women’s right to vote (suffrage)
Why did they matter?Active for over 50 years
in women’s rights movement – perhaps the most important figure
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Frederick Douglass(Abolitionist)
Accomplishments:Born a slave;
escaped, spoke out against slavery. Advisor to Lincoln in the Civil War
Why did they matter?One of America’s
first great black speakers and writers – powerful voice for human rights
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William Lloyd Garrison(Abolitionist)
Accomplishments:Publisher of the
“Liberator,” favoring the immediate end of slavery. Strong words often caused controversy.
Why did they matter?His paper was very
influential in arousing public feelings both for and against slavery.
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The Grimke Sisters(Abolitionist/Women’s Rights)
Accomplishments:Wrote extensively
and campaigned to end slavery and establish rights for women.
Why did they matter?Trailblazers for
women and African Americans in the United States
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton(Abolitionist/Women’s Rights)
Accomplishments:Helped organize
Seneca Falls Convention – Spoke out her entire life for women’s suffrage (right to vote)
Why did they matter?One of the great
organizers and spokespersons for women’s rights in the 19th Century
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Harriet Beecher Stowe(Abolitionist/ Art & Literature)
Accomplishments:Wrote “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin”Why did they
matter?By telling the evils
of slavery, she caused more people to support abolishing it
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Sojourner Truth(Abolitionist/ Women’s Rights)
Accomplishments:Traveled the country
to speak out for abolitionism and women’s rights
Why did they matter?Helped to spread
the word about the evils of slavery and the need for rights for women
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Harriet Tubman(Abolitionist)
Accomplishments:Famous “conductor”
of the Underground Railroad (300 slaves to freedom); worked for North in Civil War
Why did they matter?Her work
encouraged the abolitionist cause; gave hope to countless slaves.
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Walt Whitman(Literature/Abolitionist)
Accomplishments:He abandoned
regular rhythm and rhyme in favor of free verse that followed no set pattern. His most famous work is Leaves of Grass
Why did they matter?Known by many as
the father of modern American poetry
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John Greenleaf Whittier(Literature/Abolitionist)
Accomplishments:He not only wrote
anti-slavery poems, but poems about his own region, New England
Why did they matter?One of America’s
best known poets and abolitionists.
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Henry David Thoreau(Art/ Literature)
Accomplishments:Wrote Walden and
other works about respect for nature. Also wrote “Civil Disobedience” – about civic protest
Why did they matter?One of the first truly
American thinkers – a philosopher of nature, free thinking, and civil rights
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Horace Mann(Education)
Accomplishments:Instituted minimum
school year, doubled funding, increased # of schools; new methods
Why did they matter?His ideas had a
large effect on the expansion of education in America
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Dorothea Dix(Prisons/Mental Institutions)
Accomplishments:Played a major role
in founding mental hospitals in America and Europe
Why did they matter?One of the busiest
and influential of social reformers – influence felt even today