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Chapter 14“A New Spirit of Change”Significant People that
worked for a better America
As we go through this power point you will need to use a Thinking Map to take notes.
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Significant ReformersFredrick Douglas• An escaped slave who later
purchased his own freedom
• Abolitionist, spoke out against slavery.
• Edited the North Star - an abolitionist newspaper
• Wrote an auto-biography that was very important in teaching people about how bad slavery was!
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Significant Reformers…Elizabeth Cady Stanton• Worked for women’s rights
(vote)• Organized: Seneca Falls
Women’s Rights Convention w/ Lucretia Mott
• Opposed the 15th Amendment (gave African American men vote after Civil War) because it excluded women.
• Heavily inspired by the Declaration of Independence!!!!
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Significant Reformers
Horace Mann
• Worked to reform public education
• Government should pay for public school for all children.
Dorothea Dix• Worked to help reform the
prison system and help those with mental disabilities get fair treatment and care.
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Significant Reformers…William Lloyd
Garrison• Abolitionist from the
North
• Wrote The Liberator (abolitionist newspaper)
Harriet Beecher
Stowe• Abolitionist
• Wrote ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ to show the world the cruelties of slavery.
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Significant ReformersSojourner Truth• African American
WOMAN who was born a slave.
• Wrote the poem “Ain’t I a Woman?” to explain how black women and white women were treated differently.
• Worked as an abolitionist to educate people against slavery