Who Am I? - Reformers Review
Identify the person or organization/group described.
  1. Abolitionist:someone trying to end slavery
  2. Horace Mann: leader of public education movement; head of Massachusetts Board

of Education

  1. Dorothea Dix: teacher who investigated conditions in prisons and mental institutions

and worked to improve conditions

  1. Lyman Beecher: leader of the temperance movement in the 1800s
  2. Oberlin College: 1st college to admit African Americans
  3. Thomas Gallaudet: developed a method to educate people who were hearing impaired and

opened the first school for the hearing impaired

  1. Second Great Awakening: 19th century religious movement that inspired many reform movements
  2. Troy Female Seminary, Mount Holyoke: 1st colleges that admitted women
  3. William Lloyd Garrison: first white man to call for immediate end of slavery – published

antislavery newspaper, The Liberator, & started the New England Anti-Slavery Society

  1. American Colonization Society: group who tried to purchase slaves and send them to live in Africa in

the colony of Liberia

  1. Samuel Gridley Howe:Headed the Perkins Institute, school for the visually impaired
  2. Seneca Falls Convention: 1st convention for women’s rights; presented the Declaration of

Sentiments; proposed many rights for women including voting

  1. Margaret Fuller:writer who endorsed women’s rights, wrote Women in the Nineteenth Century
  2. Sojourner Truth: runaway slave formerly named Belle; renamed herself and traveled speaking on

abolition and women’s rights – famous speech, “Ain’t I a Woman,”

  1. Harriet Tubman: most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad
  2. Sarah & Angelina Grimke: Southern sisters raised on a plantation who worked for abolition and women’s

rights

  1. Fredrick Douglass:former slave, became very influential abolitionist, published antislavery

newspaper North Star, spoke in US and Europe

  1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton:wanted women to have the right to vote; worked with Lucretia Mott to

organize the Seneca Falls Convention; later worked with Susan B. Anthony

  1. Susan B. Anthony: a Quaker from rural New York worked for women’s rights and temperance;

organized Daughters of Temperance; worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton; worked for women’s education, gained women’s property rights in NY

20. Quakers: religious group who opposed slavery because they believed all people are equal

21. Lucretia Mott: worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to organize Seneca Falls Convention

22. Sarah G. Bagley: worked for a 10-hour day for factory workers; tried to organize trade unions