| A | B |
|---|
| Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | abolition of slavery/women's rights |
| Sarah and Angelina Grimke | southerners who opposed slavery |
| Susan B. Anthony | women's rights |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | first woman graduate from medical school |
| Dorothea Dix | rights of the mentally ill |
| Noan Webster | published spelling book and dictionary |
| William McGuffey | published a series of readers for schoolchildren |
| Horace Mann | "Father of American Public Schools" |
| Emma Hunt Willard | started first high school for women |
| Samuel Gridley Howe | pioneered education of the blind |
| utopian communities | efforts to create "ideal" communities |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" about slavery |
| Mormons | people who moved to Utah for religious freedom |
| transcendentalists | idealists who believed people could rise above their problems through faith in God and in themselves |
| Harriet Tubman | conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| Frederick Douglass | former slave who wrote and spoke for abolition |
| William Lloyd Garrison | publisher of "The Liberator" |
| Second Great Awakening | religious revivals that swept the U.S. in the early 1800sChil |
| trade unions | groups that worked to improve wages and conditions for skilled workers |
| American Temperance Society | group that sought to end alcohol problems |
