Purifying the Nation Due tomorrow…you have 3 options Save to my S://In-box Bring on a USB drive Email to me You will research—then report back to the class—about a person who wanted to re-form (i.e. change) American society in the 1820s, 30s & 40s. High on the agenda was the abolition of slavery, women’s rights, temperance, the better treatment of criminals & the insane, public education , the establishment of utopian communities & religious reform. You need to create ONE PowerPoint slide which includes a picture of your reformer which answers the following questions:

Questions you’ll need to answer 1. What area of American society was this person trying to reform? 2. What methods did this person use to achieve their intended reform? 3. How successful was this person/their movement? What was its lasting impact?

Example: Sylvester Graham Sylvester Graham wanted to reform peoples’ diets and was also involved in the Temperance movement He invented Graham flour—a whole wheat, un-sifted, unbleached flour that was free from the (later to be found out as toxic) chemical additives common in the 1800s. He believed that a healthy diet could cure alcoholism. His followers came to be known as “Grahamites” were early American vegetarians—as he was the founder of the American Vegetarian Society. His diet-consciousness also had influence on such people as Harvey Kellogg.

1. Lyman Beecher 2. Father Theobald Mathew 3. Neal Dow 4. John Bartholomew Gough 5. Dorothea Dix 6. William Lloyd Garrison 7. Wendell Phillips 8. Theodore Dwight Weld 9. Sarah & Angelina Grimke 10. Frederick Douglass 11. Harriet Tubman 12. Harriet Beecher Stowe Sojourner Truth Elijah Lovejoy 15. Lucy Stone 16. Elizabeth Cady Stanton 17. Lucretia Mott 18. Robert Owen 19. George Ripley 20. John Humphrey Noyes 21. Horace Mann 22. William McGuffey 23. William Ellery Channing 24. Mother Ann Lee 25. Charles Finney 26. Joseph Smith