7830571461 | Catherine Beecher | pushed for women's education in the domestic arts; established Hartford Female Seminary; opposed women's suffrage | 0 | |
7830571463 | Lucretia Mott and | A Quaker who started out as an abolitionist then progressed into the women's rights movement | 1 | |
7830571464 | Amelia Bloomer | Women's health to be protected; popularized a short dress with full length Turkish style pants; published The Lily; loved bicycles and said women should be able to do more things/have more flexibility | 2 | |
7830571466 | Charles G. Finney | Presbyterian revivalist; most important preacher during second great awakening; preached fear of damnation; reform and personal morality; "burned over district" | 3 | |
7830571470 | Robert Owen | Believed environment forms the character; not religiously grounded; believed in free love not marriage; private property, religion, and rational property are bad; believed in birth control | 4 | |
7830571473 | John Humphrey Noyes | Rejected tradition family and marriage; complex marriage-all women are married to all men Postmillenialism-Jesus came, resurrected, 1,000 years of perfectibility of man, when achieved, Jesus will come back (not literal 1,000 years | 5 | |
7830571474 | Joseph Smith | Book of Mormon; Faced discrimination everywhere he went; only success: founded church or Morm; came to hime in dream saying all religions are wrong | 6 | |
7830571475 | Brigham Young | Founded "New Zion"; practice of polygamy and secrecy aroused hostility of US government | 7 | |
7830571478 | Dorothea Dix | Crusader for the mentally ill and reform of insane asylums | 8 | |
7830571480 | Neal Dow | "Father of Prohibition" sponsored the Maine Law of 1851 which prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol | 9 | |
7830571482 | Horace Mann | Education is essential for democracy; people have a voice in what they are doing; teachers should be paid good; need education more than a few months; Board of Education-uniformed and expanded schools | 10 | |
7830571483 | William Holmes McGuffey | Popular; textbooks are fabulous and promoted democracy and patriotism | 11 | |
7830571484 | Oberlin College, OH | First school to admit women and blacks | 12 | |
7830571489 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin-inflamed passions in the North and South; romantic fiction combined with abolitionist political agenda; changed nature of anti-slavery debate | 13 | |
7830571491 | Fredrick Douglass | North start; organized efforts to help fugitive slaved escape to North and Canada; lectured against slavery | 14 | |
7830571492 | Harriet Tubman | Underground Railroad "Moses" of her people | 15 | |
7830571493 | Sojourner Truth | Freed slave and feminist-eloquent antislavery advocate | 16 | |
7830571494 | David Walker | Most radical black abolitionist who called for an uncompromising opposition to and violent overthrow of slavery in his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World; worked for Freedom's Journal | 17 | |
7830571495 | William Lloyd Garrison | abolitionist who founded "The Liberator" | 18 | |
7830571496 | Elijah Lovejoy | First martyr for abolition; resulted in a more moderate stance by some abolitionists | 19 | |
7830571501 | James Fenimore Cooper | Significance of Americas westward expansion, life on the frontier and wilderness | 20 | |
7830571502 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Scarlet Letter | 21 | |
7830571504 | Edgar Allen Poe | Pain and horror, darker side of the human spirit The Raven and Fall of the House of Usher | 22 | |
7830571505 | Emily Dickinson | Recluse who published 2,000 poems | 23 | |
7830571506 | Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass-poet, love of American democracy, personal liberty, and individuality | 24 | |
7830571507 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Former Unitarian minister; leading critic of slavery and ardent supporter of the Union in the Civil War Transcendentalist | 25 | |
7830571511 | Margaret Fuller | Feminist who addressed issues of gender roles | 26 | |
7830719315 | Lucy Stone | pushed for women's suffrage; refused to change her maiden name after marriage | 27 | |
7830736796 | Sarah and Angelina Grimke | abolitionists who freed their slaves after they inherited them | 28 | |
7830742766 | Declaration of Sentiments | Written for the Seneca Falls Convention declaring the rights of women | 29 | |
7830765822 | Nat Turner | A black preacher who led a rebellion in 1831 and killed 60 Virginians | 30 | |
7830777798 | American Colonization Society | Founded to send free blacks to Liberia | 31 | |
7847411053 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony | Women's rights Activists and abolitionists | 32 | |
7847418091 | Seneca Falls Convention 1848 | First Women's Rights Convention | 33 |
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