Reforming American Society Guess Who

Grimke Sisters

• I organized the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls
• I wrote the Declaration of Sentiments
• I fought for women's suffrage for over 50 years
• I worked closely with Susan B. Anthony
• I supported temperance and abolition

Charles Finney

• I was a leader of the Second Great Awakening
• I developed new techniques for religious revival meetings
• I believed in immediate conversion and "new measures"
• I supported abolition and women's rights

George Ripley

• I founded the utopian community Brook Farm
• I was a Unitarian minister turned Transcendentalist
• I believed in combining intellectual and manual labor

Horace Mann

• I am known as the "Father of American Public Education"
• I created the first state board of education in Massachusetts
• I believed education could eliminate poverty and crime
• I advocated for well-trained teachers and better school buildings

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Dorothea Dix

I fought for better conditions in mental hospitals and prisonsI documented horrible conditions in jails across multiple states I convinced state legislatures to fund mental hospitals

The Shakers

• We were a religious group founded by Mother Ann Lee
• We believed in gender equality and communal property
• We practiced celibacy and separated men from women

Henry David Thoreau

• I wrote the essay "Civil Disobedience"
• I lived alone at Walden Pond for two years
• I was a key figure in the Transcendentalist movement

Lowell Mill Girls

• We were young women who worked in textile factories
• We formed America's first labor association for women
• We published our own newspaper called "The Lowell Offering"
• We went on strike to protest wage cuts and poor conditions

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Sojourner Truth

• I was born into slavery but escaped to freedom
• I changed my name to reflect my spiritual mission
• I delivered the famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech
• I was both an abolitionist and women's rights activist

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