| A | B |
| Utopia | New Harmony, Indiana |
| Horace Mann | leader of education who expanded the school year |
| Ashmun Institute | 1st African American college |
| Transcendentalists | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau |
| Washington Irving | wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| William Lloyd Garrison | first white abolitionist to call for complete emancipation |
| Sojourner Truth | former slave who became a famous African American despite her past |
| women's rights movement | group of women fighting for their rights |
| New York | location of first women's rights movement |
| Wyoming | 1st state to grant women the right to vote |
| Second Great Awaking | wave of religious fervor |
| temperance | movement to drink NO alcohol |
| head of education in Massachusetts | Horace Mann |
| Herman Melville | wrote Moby Dick |
| Emily Dickinson | wrote poems |
| Frederick Douglass | purchased his own freedom |
| Underground Railroad | network of escape routes |
| Harriet Tubman | famous Underground Railroad conductor |
| suffrage | controversial issue at Seneca Falls |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | founded the NY Infirmary for Women and Children |
| revivals | frontier camp meetings |
| Dorothea Dix | reformed care for mentally ill |
| Liberia | place of freedom |
| North Star editor | Frederick Douglass |
| John James Audubon | painted birds |
| Henry David Thoreau | practiced civil disobedience |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | demanded woman suffrage |
| Maria Mitchell | discovered a comet |