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Chapter 15: American Reformers
GOAL
Religious revival
Reforms for the
mentally ill
Prison reform
Curb alcohol abuse
Improve education
Free enslaved
people
Women's rights
REFORMER
Second Great Awakening—
Charles Grandison Finney
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix
Temperance movement
Horace Mann
Abolitionist movement—
Frederick Douglass, William
Lloyd Garrison, the Grimké
Sisters, and Harriet Tubman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Sojourner Truth, Lucretia
Mott, and Susan B. Anthony
IMPACT
Encouraged spirit of reform to
improve society.
Improved treatment of the mentally
ill—placing them in hospitals and
treating them as patients, not
criminals.
Improved prison conditions and
stopped treatment of debtors as
criminals.
Sought to limit or end drinking—
Maine and eight other states
banned the sale of alcohol.
By the 1850s, most northern states
set up free tax-supported
elementary schools.
Demanded that slavery be
abolished in the U.S. and backed it
up with courageous actions (esp.
Tubman / Underground Railroad).
Seneca Falls Convention—women
demanded equality at work, at
school, at church, and the right to
vote.
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