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| Sojourner Truth | former slave and illiterate she became a powerful voice for enslaved African Americans and women |
| Lucretia Mott | Quaker woman whose organizational and public speaking skills were used to help fight for women's rights |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments |
| Seneca Falls Convention | 1848 convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious rights of women |
| Declaration of Sentiments | modeled on the Declaration of Independence, it declared all men and women equal and listed injustices women suffered |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Women's Rights Movement | an organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status of women in American society |
| Susan B. Anthony | helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 |
| Mount Holyoke | first college for women in the United States |
| Margaret Fuller | In 1845 she published the book Women in the Nineteenth Century |
