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Hudson River School | group of artists that painted landscapes of the Catskill Mountains |
James Fenimore Cooper | published a series of novels which included "The Deerslayer" |
American Colonization Society | group of people that wanted free blacks to settle in Africa |
Harriet Tubman | most famous conductor on the underground railroad |
Seneca Falls Convention | meeting where both men and women gathered to demand equality for women |
Washington Irving | wrote "Rip Van Winkle" |
Liberia | African colony set up for free American blacks |
Thomas Galludet | first person to set up a school for the deaf |
New England Anti-slavery Society | group founded by William Lloyd Garrison to work for immediate abolition and racial equality for African Americans |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | woman who along with Lucretia Mott helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention |
debelop a plan of action for women's rights | purpose of Seneca Falls Convention |
Elizabeth Blackwell | first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States |
Massachusetts | state in which every town was orered to set up an elementary school in the 1820s |
temperance movement | movement that wanted to ban the sale of alcohol |