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| legal and political | Women had few of these rights. |
| abolitionists | These people were reformers who wanted to put an end to slavery. |
| Underground Railroad | This is a series of escape routes used by abolitionists to help slaves. |
| conductors | This is the name for people who led slaves to freedom. |
| stations | This is the name for the hiding places for slaves who were escaping using the Underground Railroad. |
| Susan B. Anthony | I was a women's right leader who was arrested for trying to vote in the presidential election of 1872. |
| Harriet Tubman | I was an escaped slave who repeatedly risked my life to help other slaves escape along the Underground Railroad. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | I published many articles in my newspaper "The Liberator", that called for the abolition of slavery. |
| Sojourner Truth | I was among the first African-American women to speak out against slavery. I was an important leader in the struggle for women's rights. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | I organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 along with Lucretia Mott to fight for women's rights. |
| Frederick Douglass | I was a famous abolitionist who lectured about my experiences as a slave and attacked the injustices faced by free African-Americans. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | This author is known for writing THE SCARLET LETTER which was set in Puritan Massachusetts and explored the human suffering that results from sin. |
| Edgar Allen Poe | This early American author wrote mysteries, short stories, and poems. He is the father of the modern detective story. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | This author portrayed Indians with dignity, and he showed how the white settlers misused the wilderness. He is known for the collection of five novels including THE DEERSLAYER and LAST OF THE MOHICANS. |
| Henry David Thoreau | He believed in living simply and in harmony with nature. He moved to a cabin on the wooded shore of Walden Pond. He wrote about nature and life. He also wrote a famous essay called "Civil Disobedience" which said that people should not obey laws that they consider unjust. They should not protest with violence, but with passive resistance. |
| Herman Melville | This author wrote MOBY DICK that uses the whale hunt as a way to explore the forces of good and evil in the human spirit. |
| Washington Irving | This author is famous for writing "Rip Van Winkle" about a character that slept for twenty years and woke to find that everything had changed. |
| John James Audubon | This artist is known for his detailed paintings of birds and animals of North America. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | This man taught that it was important for people to truly understand themselves. |
