Chapter 13: Women's Rights Movement

• Henry David Thoreau represented the spirit of reform.
• Reformers wanted to extend the nations liberty and equality
• Utopia: a vision of perfect society
• Revivals: Frontier camp meetings
• Charles Finney was the preacher of the Second Awakening
• Temperance Movement: A movement that encouraged little to no alcohol consumption
• Horace Mann was head of educational reform and improved schools
• By the 1850's most states accepted that

  • Schools were free
  • Teachers should be trained
  • Children required to attend school
• Mary Lyon opened Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1837
• Thomas Gallaudet helped those of hard hearing.
• Dr. Samuel Gridley helped with those of bad vision
• Dorthea Dix helped get better conditions for prisoners.
• Transcendentalists stressed the importance of humans and nature.
• Margaret Fuller: Supported rights for Women
• Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about breaking bonds of prejudice
• Henry David Thoreau practiced civil disobedience and went to jail for not paying taxes.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote stories about with a setting of New England
• Edgar Allen Poe told terror stories
• Walt Witman published poems
• Emily Dickenson wrote deeply emotional poems
• Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the story "Uncle Toms Cabin"
• As a antislavery effort the U.S. was resettling African Americans to Africa or the Caribbean.
• liberia: place of freedom
• William Lloyd Garrison had an antislavery newspaper called "The Liberator" also was the first white abolitionist.
• Grimke Sisters were the first white southerners who were abolitionists and supported women rights and publicly spoke.
• Theodore Weld Angelinas husband wrote "American Slavery As it is"
• Free African Americans lived in poverty
• Samuel Cornish and John Russworm started first African Americans newspaper called "Freedoms Journal"
• David Walker born free and wanted African Americans to rebel by force.
• Free A.A's wanted to free others and encourage them to emigrate to Canada.
• Fredrick Douglas was a slave and escaped joining the Anti-Slavery Society. Also edited a antislavery newspaper called the "North Star"
• Isabella Baumfree also known as Sojourner Truth dedicated her life to abolition, women rights, and God.
• Harriet Tubman was a conductor of the Underground railroad and helped many people escape the South
• Lucretia Mott was a Quaker who called for temperance, women rights, and abolition .
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a abolitonist
• The Seneca Falls Conventions issued a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.
• Suffrage was the womens right to vote.
• Susan B. Anthony worked for women's rights and temperance.
• Cathrine Beecher educated women on traditional roles
• Emma Hart Willard helped women educate on traditional roles and also educated herself in science and math.