purifying the nation
by: mathew wyers
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Gallaudet establish the American School of the Deaf in 1817. He also was the first person to start woking with the deaf.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He was the center of the transcendental movement. He published a book of his ideas and values called nature in 1836.
Dorothea Dix
She is described as "The most effective advocate of humanitarian reform in American mental institution during the nineteenth century.
Horace Mann
He was an education reformer. He also served in the Massachusetts house of representatives and senate. Then was appointed as the Massachusetts secretary of education. He also went before the U.S house of representatives promoting public education.
Robert Owen
He was a welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.
Elihu Burritt
He was known for supporting the abolition of slavery, the dignity of the American working man, and the cause of world peace.
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.