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Religious Meeting
Revival
Refusing to obey laws considered unjust
Civil Disobedience
A person who sought the end of slavery in the United States in the early 1800s.
Abolitionist
The right to vote
Suffrage
When abolitionists created routes from the North to the South to helped enslaved Africans escape.
Underground Railroad Movement
Treated the mentally ill and created schools to help them.
Dorothea Dix
Believed that women should be educated for their traditional roles in life.
Catherine Beecher
The teaching of females and males together
coeducation
A community based off of a perfect society
Utopia
Inherited their family's slaves and freed them immediately after; spoke out for abolition and Women's Rights; wrote American Slavery in 1839
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
She educated herself in subjects considered suitable only for males, such as science and mathematics. In 1821 she set up the Troy Female Seminary in upstate New York. Her seminary taught mathematics, history, geography, and physics, as well as the usual homemaking subjects.
Emma Willard
Drinking little or no alcohol
Temperance
A abolitionist who had escaped slavery and was a conductor for the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Worked as a teacher for 20 years; began raising funds to open a women's college; She established Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts in 1837, modeling its curriculum on that of nearby Amherst College.
Mary Lyon
State-supported school for training high school graduates to become teachers
Normal School
Participated in a literary movement called Transcendentalism; went to jail via refusing to pay a tax to support the Mexican-American War.
Henry David Thoreau
First Women's Rights Convention
Seneca Falls Convention