A | B |
reform | To Change |
Second Great Awakening | Religious movement that swept the nation in the early 1800's |
public school | School supported by taxes |
abolitionist | Person who wanted to end slavery in the United States |
underground railroad | Secret network of people who helped runaway slaves to reach freedom in the North or Canada |
Seneca Falls Convention | Meeting at which leaders of the women's rights movement voted on a plan for achieving equality |
Declaration of Sentiments | Declaration of wrongs of men against women. Modeled after the Declaration of Independence |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | One of the leaders of the women's rights movement and author of the Declaration of Sentiments |
Dorthea Dix | Led the reform movement for better treatment of the mentally ill and prison reform |
Horace Mann | Led the educational reform movement in Massachusetts |
Harriet Tubman | Escaped slave who was a "conductor" on the underground railroad |