| A | B |
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| problems before the women's rights movement | no voting, men took their wives property and wages, men could beat their wives |
| Sojourner Truth | a freed slave who tried to convince people that women were equal to men |
| Lucretia Mott | brought women together at the Seneca Falls Convention |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | organized the Seneca Falls Convention; attended World anti-slavery convention |
| Susan B. Anthony | worked with Stanton; tried to vote |
| Emma Willard | opened a school for women in Troy |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | first woman doctor |
| Washington Irving | wrote Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| James Fenimore Cooper | wrote The Last of the Mohicans |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | wrote The Scarlet Letter |
| Herman Melville | wrote Moby Dick |
| transcendentalism | belief that each individual has control over their life |
| Emily Dickinson | wrote over 1700 poems in her lifetime; famous poet |
| Declaration of Sentiments | declared that men and women are created equal |
| Seneca Falls Convention | women's rights conference |
