Charles Grandison Finney

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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.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe(abolitionist)

• Wrote Uncle Toms 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
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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.

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Frederick Douglass(abolitionist)

• Abolitionist who published the North Star to
  spread the idea of anti-slavery. Advised Lincoln
  during Civil War.
• 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.
• I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I
  couldn't do the things I wanted.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton(womens rights)

• Leader in womens 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.

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Susan B. Anthony(womens rights)

• Leader in womens 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.

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Horace Mann(education reform)

• Established free elementary education
• Free Public Education in America
• By the 1850s, most northern states set up free
  tax-supported elementary schools.
• A human being is not attaining his full heights
  until he is educated.

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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.

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Sojourner Truth

• Womens suffrage
• Fought for Womens 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.

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Dorothea Dix(mentally ill)

• 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.