Transcript Slide 1

Charles Grandison Finney
• Second Great Awakening:
Encouraged spirit of reform to
improve society.
• Revival of American morals and
values
• “A state of mind that sees God in
everything is evidence of growth
in grace and a thankful heart.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
(abolitionist)
• Wrote Uncle Tom’s
Cabin which told of the
mistreatment of the
slaves. Angered many
southerners who said it
gave a false picture of
slavery.
"There, you impudent dog! Now will you learn not to
answer back when I speak to you? Take the horse back,
and clean him properly. I'll teach you your place!"
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Ch. 23
Harriet Tubman
(abolitionist)
• Conductor of the
Underground Railroad.
Helped over 300 slaves
escape to freedom.
• “I freed a thousand
slaves I could have
freed a thousand more
if only they knew they
were slaves.”
Frederick Douglass
(abolitionist)
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Abolitionist who published the North
Star to spread the idea of anti-slavery.
Advised Lincoln during Civil War.
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“I am a Republican, a black, dyed in
the wool Republican, and I never
intend to belong to any other party
than the party of freedom and
progress.”
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“I didn't know I was a slave until I
found out I couldn't do the things I
wanted.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(women’s rights)
• Leader in women’s rights
who called for the end to all
laws discriminating against
women.
• (Seneca Falls Convention)
• “I would have girls regard
themselves not as
adjectives but as nouns.”
•
We hold these truths to be
self-evident: that all men
and women are created
equal.”
Susan B. Anthony
(women’s rights)
• Leader in women’s rights
who fought for equal pay
and coeducation.
• “I think the girl who is
able to earn her own
living and pay her own
way should be as happy
as anybody on earth. The
sense of independence
and security is very
sweet.”
Horace Mann
(education reform)
• Established free elementary
education
• Free Public Education in
America
• By the 1850s, most northern
states set up free taxsupported elementary
schools.
• “A human being is not
attaining his full heights until
he is educated.”
Lyman Beecher
(banning of alcohol)
• Leader in the
temperance movement.
Blamed alcohol for
poverty, crime, insanity,
and the breakup of
families.
• “Never chase a lie. Let it
alone, and it will run
itself to death.”
Sojourner Truth
• Women’s suffrage
• Fought for Women’s rights for
women of ALL races.
• “If the first woman God ever
made was strong enough to
turn the world upside down all
alone, these women together
ought to be able to turn it
back , and get it right side up
again! And now they is asking
to do it, the men better let
them.”
Dorothea Dix
(mentally ill)
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Worked to improve the treatment of
the mentally ill and prison reform.
Mentally ill were kept in cages,
chained naked to walls, and beaten.
• “Man is not made better by being
degraded; he is seldom restrained
from crime by harsh measures,
except the principle of fear
predominates in his character;
and then he is never made
radically better for its influence.”
• “In a world where there is so
much to be done. I felt strongly
impressed that there must be
something for me to do. “