Chapter 16 US History
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9 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Horace Mann | Education reform. He provided public education for all children. |
| Thomas Gallaudet | Education Reform. Built schools for the Deaf. |
| Samuel Howe | Education Reform. Built schools for the Blind. Taught blind people braille and taught them skills how to get jobs. |
| Dorethea Dix | Mental Illness Reform/Prison. Thought that America needed hospitals for the mentally ill and by 1860, as many as 15 countries did. |
| "Mother Ann" Lee | Utopia Reform. Created the Shaker society. They believed in sharing everything and deep believers of god. |
| Frederick L. Olmsted | Urban Reform/City. Built first urban park; wanted to make NY a better place. Now known as Cenral Park. |
| James Forten | Antislave Reform/Emancipation. A wealthy buisnessman; presented a petition to Congress calling for empancipation. |
| Theodore Weld | Antislave. A student; kicked out of college then went to Oberlin College. He wanted slavery to abolish. Oberlin was the anti slavery center at the time |
| Wliiam L. Garrison | ... |
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