Reform Movements- The Antabellum Period Flashcards

(1800-1860)

261770185	Women's right movement	...
261770186	Seneca Falls Covention (1848)	(1848) "Declaration of Sentiments" convention for equal opportunity in education, equality before the law, esp in carrer opurtunities and property rights, womens sufferage
261770187	Susan B Anthony	women's rights advocate- arrested and fined for voting
261770188	Elizabeth Stanton	founder of the National Women's Sufferage Assocation (1870's)
261770189	Emma Blackwell	first female doctor
261770190	Troy female institute	one of first women's colleges- by 1850s, over half of colleges still dont allow women
261770191	Abolitionism (1830s)	...
261770192	manumission societies	encouraged slave owners to put free thier slaves upon thier death- Quaker sponsored
261770193	William Lloyd Garrison	The Liberator(1831)"I will be as harsh as the truth!" -radical passifist that proposed the noth sceceding from the south - called for the imediate release of all slaves w/o compromise-the Christian duty!
261770194	John Brown	violent white abolitionist who attempted to create a millitant slave revolution in VA (1859)
261770195	Fredrick Douglass	escaped slave; black advocate who wrote the NOrth Star
261770196	Soujourner Truth	ex- slave who was a african american and women's rights advocate/ speaker/ preacher. couldnt read or right, and used common language, but held extreme power in her vernacular
261770197	Harriet Tubman	UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
261770198	Harriet Beacher Stowe	wrote uncle tom's cabin
261770199	Nat Turner's revolt	slave revolt in VA, with over 60 shites killed and mutilated; effect was a slave/ abolition scare- gag rule in the house, and slave codes strictly enforced
261770200	Grayson's "Hirelind and the Slave"	justufucation for slavery- they have it better than northern hired help bacouse they have permanent employment and a security net