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| Second Great Awakening | a revival of religious feeling and belief in the 1820s and 1830s |
| Dorothea Dix | reformer who improved the conditions for prisoners in jails and for the mentally ill |
| Horace Mann | the "father of American public schools"; reform for public schools, increased educational opportunities for women |
| abolitionists | people who favored the abolition, the ending of slavery |
| slavery | the treatment of people as property for the purpose of forcing them to do work |
| Sojourner Truth | former slave, gave speeches throughout the North against slavery, and later, in favor of women's rights |
| Frederick Douglass | former slave, leader in the abolitionist movement, published the North Star |
| North Star | Frederick Douglass's antislavery newspaper |
| Angelina and Sarah Grimke | Quaker sisters who spoke out against slavery |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | first female doctor |
| Declaration of Sentiments | a formal statement of injustices suffered by women, written by organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention |
| Seneca Falls Convention | convention that was held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19, 1848; first organized movement for women's rights |
| Lucretia Mott | leader in women's rights movement; organizer of Seneca Falls Convention |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | leader in women's rights movement; organizer of Seneca Falls Convention |
