Abolitionist - A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony - Members of the women's right's movement who advocated for suffrage for women at the first Women's Right's Convention in Seneca, New York 1848., Fredrick Douglass - American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer., Harriet Tubman - United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913), Horace Mann - A leader of educational reform, he became the head of the Massachusetts Board Of Education in 1837; he lengthened the school year to six months, doubled teachers' salaries, and improved curriculum and teacher training, Declaration of Sentiments - Document at the Seneca Falls Convention which declared "all men and women are created equal.", Seneca Falls Convention - A women's right convention organized in 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, two female abolitionists, in New York; they advocated women's right to vote and the right to enter all-male trades, professions, and businesses, Soujourner Truth - a freed slave who lived in America during the late 1800's. She waged a constant battle for the abolition of slavery. She was also a prominent figure in the fight for women's rights. She gave the "Ain't I A Woman" speech., Suffrage - The right to vote. The most controversial issue at the Seneca Fall Convention., Leaders of the Temperance Movement - Women, Business Owners, Religious Groups, William Lloyd Garrison - One of the first white abolitionists to call for the immediate and complete emancipation of enslaved people, he started the Liberator newspaper., Education Movement - 1. Schools free, funded by taxes 2. Teachers should trained. 3. Children required to attend public schools, Reform - To change something that is considered bad or detrimental to society, Temperance - End/limit consumption of alcohol in US, Women's Rights Movement - Movement for suffrage and equal rights for females, Prison Reform - Wanted separate and better systems for children, adults and the mentally ill, Second Great Awakening - a religious revival that started in the early 19th century and ended in the mid 1800s. It will inspire social reforms and a change in music, art, and literature., Dorothea Dix - Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first wave of US mental asylums, Workers Unions - An organization of factory workers formed for the purpose of serving their collective interest with respect to wages and working conditions, Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most successful best-seller of the mid 1800s that explored the injustice of slavery; Abraham Lincoln met her during the Civil War,

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