These were supporters of setting up an independent colony in Africa for freed slaves
What is American Colonization Society
100
A system of prisons
What is penal system
100
A Boston School teacher who visited a women’s jail and persuaded legislature to treat the mentally ill as patients not criminals.
What is Dorthea Dix
100
Fought for better schools in Massachusetts, became head of the state board of education, and also opened 3 colleges to train teachers.
What is Horace Mann
100
Freed slave, taught himself how to read, powerful speaker, and published The North Star.
What is Fredrick Douglass
200
A group of Americans that wanted to end slavery in the United States.
What is Abolitionist
200
A network of abolitionists who secretly helped slaves reach freedom in the North or Canada.
underground railroad
200
One of Howe’s students that lost her sight and hearing along with some of her sense of smell and taste from scarlet fever. She helped Howe teach other blind students.
What is Laura Bridgman
200
This reformer of education created a system of raised letters that allowed students to read with their fingers and was the director of the first school for blind students
What is Samuel Gridley Howe
200
She was the first American woman to make political speeches against slavery.
What is Maria Stewart
300
An organized attempt to improve what is unjust or imperfect in society.
What is social reform
300
A campaign against alcohol abuse
What is temperance movement
300
This reformer started a school for African American girls, even though the community didn’t like this and threw rocks through the classroom window.
What is Prudence Crandall
300
This women’s rights reformer was an excellent student and athlete, married an abolitionist against family wishes, and the main leader for the Seneca Falls Convention.
What is Elizabeth Cady Stanton
300
A white abolitionist who published The Liberator and believed slavery was a disease that threatened the whole nation, burned a copy of the Declaration of Independence
What is William Lloyd Garrison
400
Huge meeting held to stir religious feelings
What is a revival
400
A meeting at which leaders of the women’s rights movement called for equality for women.
What is Seneca Falls Convention
400
A Quaker and a teacher that fought for women’s rights. This reformer did not like to do a lot of public speaking, instead made petition drives across the North.
What is Lucretia Mott
400
This reformer for education opened a high school for girls in Troy, New York where they could study “men subjects”.
What is Emma Willard
400
Abolitionist, encouraged African Americans to free themselves by any means.
What is David Walker
500
A belief that God decided in advance which people would gain salvation in heaven.
What is predestination
500
The belief that the most important truths in life went beyond human reason.
What is transcendentalism
500
A writer from New York who wrote about America’s past, such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. This writer wrote under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker.
What is Washington Irving
500
This writer rarely left their home and was one of the nation’s greatest poets, yet only 7 of her 1,700poems were actually published in her lifetime.
What is Emily Dickinson
500
Urged people to live as simply as possible, served as a conductor on the underground railroad, and believed that the growth in the industry and rise of cities were ruining the nation.