Antebellum Reformers Chart

Antebellum Reformer / Area(s) of Reform/Movement / “Partners in Crime” / Achievements
(Lasting Impact) / Creative Way to Remember
Horace Mann / Education / McGuffey
C. Beecher
Lyon
E. Willard
F. Willard / Brother-in-law to Nathanial Hawthorne; created teacher-training schools; adopted the German form of education (mandatory school); longer school years; kids must attend until 16; higher teacher pay; wider curriculum; Father of the “Common School” Movement (taught the 3 R’s-Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic)
William McGuffey / Education / Horace Mann
C. Beecher
Lyon
E. Willard
F. Willard / Wrote McGuffey Reader Primer- first textbooks in U.S.
Catharine Beecher / Education / Mann
McGuffey
Lyon
E. Willard
F. Willard / Worked to incorporate Kindergarten & P.E. into children’s education; campaigned for more schools & teachers in West
Anti-Suffragist-believed women should be mothers & educators
Started the Hartford Female Seminary; Western Female Institute
Mary Lyon / Women’s Education / Mann
McGuffey
C. Beecher
E. Willard
F. Willard / Holyoake Seminary
Emma Willard / Women’s Education / Mann
McGuffey
C. Beecher
Lyon / Troy Female Seminary
Sojourner Truth / Abolition
Women / Mott
Anthony
Grimke
Douglass
Garrison
F. Willard
Stanton
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld / An’t I a Woman
Lucretia Mott / Women
Abolition (husband helped found American Antislavery society) / Truth
Anthony
Grimke
Douglass
Garrison
F. Willard
Stanton
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld / Signed Declaration of Rights & Sentiments at Seneca Falls Convention
Susan B. Anthony / Women
Temperance
Abolition / Truth
Mott
Grimke
Douglass
Garrison
F. Willard
Stanton
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld / Co-founded 1st women’s temperance movement with EC Stanton; founded National Women’s Suffrage Association with EC Stanton
Angelina & Sarah Grimke / Women’s Rights
Abolition / Truth
Mott
Anthony
Douglass
Garrison
F. Willard
Stanton
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld / Angelina married Theodore Weld; wrote a letter to The Liberator discussing women’s work in abolition paved way for work toward women’s rights; Sarah wrote Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women
Frederick Douglass / Abolition
Women (attended Seneca Falls Convention) / Truth
Mott
Anthony
Grimke
Garrison
F. Willard
Stanton
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld / Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; The North Star
Antebellum Reformer / Area(s) of Reform/Movement / “Partners in Crime” / Achievements
(Lasting Impact) / Creative Way to Remember
William Lloyd Garrison / Abolition / Truth
Mott
Anthony
Grimke
Douglass
F. Willard
Stanton
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld / Wrote The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper; helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society
Frances Willard / Temperance
Education
Women / Truth
Mott
Anthony
Grimke
Douglass
Garrison
Stanton
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld / Founded Women’s Christian Temperence Union (WCTU); Leader of the National Prohibition Party;
Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Women / Truth
Mott
Anthony
Grimke
Douglass
Garrison
F. Willard
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld / Drafted The Declaration of Rights & Sentiments; helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention
Henry Beecher / Women’s Rights
Abolition
Temperance / Lyman Beecher (Father)
Stowe
Matthew
S. Graham
Tappan’s / Against bigotry of all kinds
Against the Chinese Exclusion Act
Raised $ to buy weapons to oppose slavery in Kansas & Nebraska-called “Beecher Bibles”
Wendell Phillips / Native American Rights
Abolition / Elijah Lovejoy
Helen Hunt Jackson (Unit 5) / Wanted equal rights for African Americans & Native Americas; worked for citizenship for Native Americans
Lyman Beecher / 2nd Great Awakening
Temperance / Preacher who distributed “Beecher Bibles”; hated Catholics
Theobald Mathew / Temperance / Lyman Beecher / Irish-born Catholic Priest who came to the US and worked for Temperance in the US
DortheaDix / Prison/Institution Reform / Dr. Sylvester Graham / Rehabilitation
Dr. Sylvester Graham / Health Reform
Temperance / Dorthea Dix / Researched the importance of healthy diet-invented the Graham diet (fresh fruit, veggies, wheat)-invented the Graham Cracker
Henry David Thoreau / Transcendentalism
Utopia
Abolition / Anthony
Grimke
Douglass
Garrison
H. Beecher
W. Phillips
Thoreau
Emerson
Walt Whitman
George Ripley, Robert Owen, Humphrey Noyes
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld Tappan / Wrote Walden & Civil Disobedience (inspired MLK, Ghandi, & Chavez), attacked Fugitive Slave Law, Environmentalist, defended John Brown
Antebellum Reformer / Area(s) of Reform/Movement / “Partners in Crime” / Achievements
(Lasting Impact) / Creative Way to Remember
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Transcendentalism
Utopia
Abolition / Anthony
Grimke
Douglass
Garrison
H. Beecher
W. Phillips
Thoreau
Emerson
Walt Whitman
George Ripley, Robert Owen, Humphrey Noyes
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld Tappan / Led Transcendentalist Movement; Wrote NatureSelf-Reliance; gave first public anti-slavery address after Elijah Lovejoy was killed
Margaret Fuller / Women / Wrote “Women in the 19th Century”
Harriet Beecher Stowe / Abolition / Anthony
Grimke
Douglass
Garrison
H. Beecher
W. Phillips
Thoreau
Emerson
Walt Whitman
George Ripley, Robert Owen, Humphrey Noyes
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld Tappan / Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin about the evils of slavery—one of the causes of the Civil War
Elijah Lovejoy / Abolition / Anthony
Grimke
Douglass
Garrison
H. Beecher
W. Phillips
Thoreau
Emerson
Walt Whitman
George Ripley, Robert Owen, Humphrey Noyes
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld Tappan / Murdered by pro-slavery mob for his abolitionist beliefs
David Walker / Abolition / Anthony
Grimke
Douglass
Garrison
H. Beecher
W. Phillips
Thoreau
Emerson
Walt Whitman
George Ripley, Robert Owen, Humphrey Noyes
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld Tappan / Wrote An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World a call for black unity and self-help against oppression & injustice; urged slaves to kill their masters or be killed
Theodore Weld / Abolition / Anthony
Grimke
Douglass
Garrison
H. Beecher
W. Phillips
Thoreau
Emerson
Walt Whitman
George Ripley, Robert Owen, Humphrey Noyes
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld Tappan / Married Angelina Grimke
His book, American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses inspired Stowe to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Arthur & Lewis Tappan / Abolition
Temperance
Education
Anti-Suffrage / Anthony
Grimke
Douglass
Garrison
H. Beecher
W. Phillips
Thoreau
Emerson
Walt Whitman
George Ripley, Robert Owen, Humphrey Noyes
Stowe
Lovejoy
Walker
Weld Tappan / Brothers who worked with William Lloyd Garrison to co-found the American Anti-Slavery Society; gave $ to underground RR; supported freeing of slaves who overtook Amistad; left the Antislavery society to form their own which did not include women

Antebellum Reform Movement Categories

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