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History People
History People Chapter 9
Question | Answer |
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Charles Grandison Finney | The central figure in the revivalist movement was Charles Grandison Finney. He was a minister, gave "Common Sense Sermons" believed in individuals power to reform themselves. |
Lyman Beecher | Lyman Beecher was another key revivalist made speeches about making a better country |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ralph Waldo Emerson was the leader of the transcendentalist movement. Lecturer and writer |
Henry David Thoreau | Henry David Thoreau was a writer and transcendentalist (liked nature, against the Mexican War) anti-slavery |
Horace Mann | Horace Mann was a leader in education movement. Believed in the right of education for every human being. Promoted self-discipline and good citizenship. |
Dorothea Dix | Dorothea Dix main leader of the prison reform |
New Harmony, Indiana- | 1825 (Robert Owen) wanted well-educated, heardworking people, to live in harmony |
Brook Farm, Masscahusetts | 1841 (Geoffs presentation) |
David Walker | free black man, placed Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (pamphlet) in the pocket of clothes that he tsold to sailors |
William Lloyd Garrison | William Lloyd Garrison was one of the most famous radical abolitionist- published The Liberator (1831) founded the American Anti-Slavery Society |
Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass was a runaway slave and a key speaker, published The North Star |
Sojourner Truth | freed slave deovted life to end slavery (religiously) |
Martin Delaney | abolitionist first African to graduate from Harvard Medical School, The Mystery |
Arthur and Lewis Tappan, and James Birney | formed the Liberty Party (1840) wasn't very popular but drew off support from the Whigs. They believed that the Constituion didn't support slavery, so they should try to abolish it politically. |
Elijah P. Lovejoy | editer of Saint Louis Observer, weekly newspaper, antislavery. died -shot 1837 |
Mary Beecher and Cathariine Beecher | established the Hartford Female Seminary |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Lucrietia Mott (Quaker minister) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | both attended American Anti-Slavery Scoiety, couldnt' speak, oraganized Seneca Falls convention, Stanton wrote the Delcartaion of Sentiments |