CH. 13-14 ⊙﹏⊙ Flashcards
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
- Wrote The Liberator
- Editor of Lundy’s newspaper
- Founded American Anti-Slavery Society
Who was Benjamin Lundy?
- saddle maker
- Quaker
- opposed slavery
- newspaper called Genius of Emancipation
Who was Nat Turner?
- very religious
- murdered 57 people
- was captured in Virginia
- capture led to stricter laws on slavery education
Who was Paul Cuffe?
- free slave
- abolitionist
- favored the idea of sending free slaves back to Africa
Who was Harriet Tubman?
- former slave
* conductor of the Underground Railroad
What was the Underground Railroad?
informal organization that helped slaves make their way to Canada
What did Transcendentalists believe?
people should depend on themselves rather then on outside authorities
Who were three Transcendentalists?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
- Margaret Fuller
- Henry David
Who was Charles Grandison Finney?
taught people that they were responsible for their salvation and that sin was available
What was the Temperance Movement?
people wanted to prevent alchohol
Who was Nathaniel Hawthorne?
wrote the Scarlet Letter exploring Puritan life in the early 1600s
Who was Herman Melville?
wrote Moby Dick
Who was Edger Allen Poe
- wrote short stories
- usually grim
- wrote A Tale Tell Heart
What profession did most most women have at this time?
mothers and wives
Who was Antoinette Brown Blackwell?
•1st women to be an ordained minister
Who was Sara Hale?
became writer of the women’s magazine “Godey’s Lady’s Book”
Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?
became 1st women licensed to practice medicine in the US
What did Sarah Grimke argue for?
equal education opportunities and equal pay for equal work
What was the Seneca Falls convention?
First public meeting about women’s rights in the US
Who was Lucy Stone?
a gifted speaker
Who was Susan B. ANthony?
- strong organizer
* believed women could preform male professions in religion and law
What kind of education did poor kids receive?
public school education
What did Horace Mann lead?
the movement to teach all children in a common place
What did Samuel Gridley Howe open?
Perkins School for Blind
