1. Purifying the Nation Due tomorrow…you have 3 options
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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:

2. 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?

3. 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.

4. 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