people of the reform movement 1820's-30's

  • andrew jackson

    andrew jackson
    He became a national war hero after defeating the British in New Orleans during the War of 1812. 7th U.S. President
  • Lorenzo Dow

    Lorenzo Dow
    He became an important figure in the Second Great Awakening and a popular writer.
  • Horace Mann

    Horace Mann
    Horace Mann was an American educational reformer and Whig politician dedicated to promoting public education. He served in the Massachusetts State legislature.
  • Dorothea Dix

    Dorothea Dix
    Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American activist on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums.
  • William Lloyd Garrison

    William Lloyd Garrison
    William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.
  • susan b anthony

    susan b anthony
    she played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
  • Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman
    Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War.
  • The Liberator

    The Liberator
    The Liberator was an American abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831. The newspaper earned nationwide notoriety for its uncompromising advocacy of "immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves" in the United States.
  • Sojourner Truth

    Sojourner Truth
    Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.