People
Who led the reform of public education
Horace Mann
Opened a college for not only white girls, but African American ones as well.
Prudence Crandall
movement that encouraged the end of debtors prison, laws against cruel punishments and created a special justice systems for children in trouble
Prison Reform
to act based on one’s own beliefs
Individualism
A meeting to discuss women's rights on July 19, 1848, with nearly 300 people, including 40 men
Seneca Falls Convention
He published the Liberator
William LLoyd Garrison
A preacher who led the movement that urged Christians to let themselves be “filled with the Spirit of God.”
Charles G. Finney
A movement that encouraged public education for boys and girls alike, especially in the North
Education Reform
a formal statement of injustices suffered by women
Declarations of Sentiments
The names of two U.S. documents that start with the words "We hold these truths to be self evident"
Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments
He was a former slave and published an abolitionist newspaper called the Northstar
Frederick Douglas
He spent more than two years in solitude in the woods, recording his thoughts in a 6,000-page journal.
Henry David Thoreau
suffrage rights for women
Women's Rights Movement
The right to vote
suffrage
a secret system of hiding places used by runaway slaves to get to the North
The Underground Railroad
She wrote the poem "Aint I a woman" and was against slavery and for womens rights
Sojourner Truth
A New England writer and former minister, who was the central figure in a movement called transcendentalism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This started all the reform movements
The 2nd Great Awakening
to make change in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustices
reform
The names of the sisters who's family was slave owners that moved north and became abolitionist.
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
She was a conductor on the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
She lead the movement to improve not only prisons but hospitals for the mentally ill
Dorthea Dix
getting rid of slavery
Abolition Movement
A person who supports the ending of slavery
abolitionist
A college in Ohio that became the first to admit women as well as men, in 1837
Oberlin College