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7830571461Catherine Beecherpushed for women's education in the domestic arts; established Hartford Female Seminary; opposed women's suffrage0
7830571463Lucretia Mott andA Quaker who started out as an abolitionist then progressed into the women's rights movement1
7830571464Amelia BloomerWomen'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 flexibility2
7830571466Charles G. FinneyPresbyterian revivalist; most important preacher during second great awakening; preached fear of damnation; reform and personal morality; "burned over district"3
7830571470Robert OwenBelieved environment forms the character; not religiously grounded; believed in free love not marriage; private property, religion, and rational property are bad; believed in birth control4
7830571473John Humphrey NoyesRejected 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 years5
7830571474Joseph SmithBook of Mormon; Faced discrimination everywhere he went; only success: founded church or Morm; came to hime in dream saying all religions are wrong6
7830571475Brigham YoungFounded "New Zion"; practice of polygamy and secrecy aroused hostility of US government7
7830571478Dorothea DixCrusader for the mentally ill and reform of insane asylums8
7830571480Neal Dow"Father of Prohibition" sponsored the Maine Law of 1851 which prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol9
7830571482Horace MannEducation 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 schools10
7830571483William Holmes McGuffeyPopular; textbooks are fabulous and promoted democracy and patriotism11
7830571484Oberlin College, OHFirst school to admit women and blacks12
7830571489Harriet Beecher StoweWrote Uncle Tom's Cabin-inflamed passions in the North and South; romantic fiction combined with abolitionist political agenda; changed nature of anti-slavery debate13
7830571491Fredrick DouglassNorth start; organized efforts to help fugitive slaved escape to North and Canada; lectured against slavery14
7830571492Harriet TubmanUnderground Railroad "Moses" of her people15
7830571493Sojourner TruthFreed slave and feminist-eloquent antislavery advocate16
7830571494David WalkerMost 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 Journal17
7830571495William Lloyd Garrisonabolitionist who founded "The Liberator"18
7830571496Elijah LovejoyFirst martyr for abolition; resulted in a more moderate stance by some abolitionists19
7830571501James Fenimore CooperSignificance of Americas westward expansion, life on the frontier and wilderness20
7830571502Nathaniel HawthorneScarlet Letter21
7830571504Edgar Allen PoePain and horror, darker side of the human spirit The Raven and Fall of the House of Usher22
7830571505Emily DickinsonRecluse who published 2,000 poems23
7830571506Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass-poet, love of American democracy, personal liberty, and individuality24
7830571507Ralph Waldo EmersonFormer Unitarian minister; leading critic of slavery and ardent supporter of the Union in the Civil War Transcendentalist25
7830571511Margaret FullerFeminist who addressed issues of gender roles26
7830719315Lucy Stonepushed for women's suffrage; refused to change her maiden name after marriage27
7830736796Sarah and Angelina Grimkeabolitionists who freed their slaves after they inherited them28
7830742766Declaration of SentimentsWritten for the Seneca Falls Convention declaring the rights of women29
7830765822Nat TurnerA black preacher who led a rebellion in 1831 and killed 60 Virginians30
7830777798American Colonization SocietyFounded to send free blacks to Liberia31
7847411053Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. AnthonyWomen's rights Activists and abolitionists32
7847418091Seneca Falls Convention 1848First Women's Rights Convention33

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