1. Reform and Abolition
Chapter 12 Notes

2. Reformers Reformers believed that:
All people were inherently good and could reach their true potential if given the opportunity (spiritual-based, transcendentalists)
Every person was capable of salvation if they just put in enough effort to redeem themselves in the eyes of God (religion-based)
Key Reformers included:
(Medical)
Oliver Wendell Holmes
William Morton
(Education)
Horace Mann
Dorothea Dix
Oliver
Wendell
Holmes
Dorothea
Dix

3. Feminism Key Feminists Included: Key Events Included:
1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Seneca Falls Convention
2. Susan B. Anthony Declaration of Rights and Sentiments
3. Catherine Beecher a. education
4. Lucy Stone b. voting rights (suffrage)
5. Lucretia Mott c. property rights
6. Grimke Sisters (Sarah and Angelina) d. divorce
e. employment
Successes:
Started feminist movement
Started suffrage movement
Increased awareness regarding certain “inalienable” rights for women
Failures:
Overshadowed by abolitionist movement
Controversial
Very little actual change
“Bloomer” outfit

4. Abolitionism Intent: To end slavery in the United States Key Figures:
1. Frederick Douglass
2. William Lloyd Garrison
3. Harriet Tubman
4. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Types of Abolitionists:
(Moderates)
- wanted gradual abolition of slavery
and focused on stopping the spread
of slavery to the west
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Beecher Stowe