Mr H chapter 14
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- Angelina and Sarah Grimke
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-two southern women who joined the anti-slavery movement
-wrote the pamphlet Appeal to the Christian Women of the South - Herman Melville
- Wrote Moby-Dick
- David Walker
- -African American who wrote the essay Appeal to the Colored Citizns of the World which explained why he was against the colonization of Liberia
- Margaret Fuller
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-wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century
-believed that women had the right to choose their own paths in life - Tenements
- dirty, overcrowded buildings where many people lived
- Lyman Beecher
- spoke widely about the evils of alcohol
- Walt Whitman
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-poet who praised American individualism and democracy
-wrote Leaves of Grass - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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-writer that believed that people relied to much on institutions and traditions
-wrote an essay called self reliance - Lucretia Mott
- A women's rights leader and friend of Elizabeth Candy Stanton who helped found the Seneca Falls Convention
- Utopian Communities
- communities who tried to form the perfect society on Earth
- American Colonization Society
- founded the colony of Liberia, some freed slaves were sent here
- Henry David Thoreau
- -Famous author who Wrote Walden
- Emancipation
- granting of freedom to slaves
- Temperance movement
- a social reform effort aimed at curbing the use of alcohol
- Abolition
- a complete end to slavery
- Nativists
- Americans who opposed immigration
- Emily Dickenson
- famous poet who had only two poems published in her lifetime
- Dorothea Dix
- helped changed the prison system in the United States
- Middle Class
- A social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor
- Catharine Beecher
- one of the most effective reformers of women's education in the early 1800's
- Horace Mann
- Leading voice for education reform in the Mid-1800's
- Common-School Movement
- people who wanted all children educated in a common place regardless of their background
- Mary Lyon
- founded Mount Holyoke Seminary
- Emma Willard
- founded Troy Female Seminary School
- Samuel Gridley Howe
- Opened the Perkins Institution, a school for the blind
- Robert Finley
- started the American Colonization Societ
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
- worked to improve the lives of people who were hearing impaired
- Harriet Tubman
- the most famous and daring conductor on the Undergroud Railroad
- Underground Railroad
- a network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for escaped slaves
- American Anti-Slavery Society
- a group that was formed that wanted immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans
- Frederick Douglass
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-a former slave who was a leader in the anti-slavery movement
-his writing and speaking skills significantly helped his cause - Lucy Stone
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-a gifted speaker for the Women's Rights Movement
-a well known member of the Anti-Slavery Society - Declaration of Sentiments
- the document detailed the beliefs the Seneca Falls Convention had about social injustice toward women
- Elizabeth Candy Stanton
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-important leader of the women's rights movement
-primary author of the Declaration of Sentiments - Susan B. Anthony
- turned the fights for women's rights into a political movement
- Second Great Awakening
- a time period where there was a renewed interest in religion
- Charles Grandison Finney
- was one of the most important leaders of the Second Great Awakening
- Know-Nothing Party
- a political organization that was founded by nativists
- Thomas Cole
- a Romantic artist who was known for painting landscapes
- Edgar Allan Poe
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-a romantic who was known for his short stories and poetry
-wrote the Raven - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- wrote the Scarlet Letter