select a 19th century reformer from the list bellow and
follow the instructions to complete the assignment. You only need to
select one reformer to do research on and write a 1-2 page paper about
that person.
Read about your reformer and then find two resources in the
library that describes his or her significance in American History.
Cite the resources and write a summary of that individual
based upon your sources.
Choose only one of these reformers to write about:
Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe
Louis Braille
Dorothea Dix
Dr. Benjamin Rush *18th century
John B. Gough
Mayor Neal Dow
William Lloyd Garrison
Theodore Dwight Weld
David Walker
Frederick Douglass
Margaret Fuller
Sarah & Angelin Grimke
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Susan B. Anthony
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Edgar Allan Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Horace Mann
Henry Barnard
Harriet Beecher Stowe