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| Second Great Awakening | a powerful religious movement of the early 1800's that called for an end to slavery |
| American Colonization Society | proposed to end slavery by setting up a colony in Africa for freed slaves |
| Abolitionists | people who wanted to end slavery |
| Frederick Douglass | prominent African American abolitionist and former slave who published an antislavery newspaper, the North Star |
| David Walker | outspoken African American abolitionist who called on enslaved persons to free themselves by any means necessary |
| William LLoyd Garrison | fiery abolitionist who called for an immediate end to slavery in his antislavery paper, the Liberator |
| Underground Railroad | network of abolitionists that secrely helped runaway slaves reach freedom in the North and in Canada |
| Harriet Tubman | successful and famous "conductor" on the underground railroad |
| Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | abolitionists who decided to hold a convention to draw attention to women's rights |
| Seneca Falls Convention | marked the 1848 start of an organized women's rights movement |
| Angelina and Sarah Grimke | former slaveholders who worked for abolitionism and women's rights |
| Sojourner Truth | former slave and eloquent speaker for women's rights |
| Declaration of Sentiments | stressed equality for women and was modeled on the Declaration of Indepedence |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | first woman in the U.S. with a medical degree |
| Mount Holyoke | first women's college in the U.S. |
| Dorothea Dix | her work improved conditions for prisoners and the metally ill |
| Temperance Movement | linked the abuse of alcohol to crime and the breakup of families |
