Reformers Quiz
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mercygirl1234 on September 18, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Frederick Douglass | an escaped slave that became an abolitionist and lectured vs slavery. he lived in rochester for more than 20 years |
| The North Star | What was the name of Frederick Douglass's newspaper? |
| William Lloyd Garrison | a white abolitionist who published a newspaper |
| The Liberator | What was the name of William Lloyd Garrison's newpaper? |
| Harriet Tubman | an escaped slave that founded the Underground Railroad and helped more than 300 slaves escape. she was later a nurse and spy for the union |
| Grimke Sisters | lectured against slavery even though father owned slaves; kept speaking in public even though it was rare to do so |
| Angelina and Sarah | What are the first names of the two Grimke sisters? |
| Sojourner Truth | former slave who lectured for women's rights and is known for her Ain't I A Woman speech. |
| Lucretia Mott | worked for women's rights and helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | key organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention, her father wished she was a boy, had 6 children, and she wrote speeches for Susan B Anthony |
| Susan B Anthony | lived in rochester ny and campaigned against slavery and alcohol abuse but is most known for the womens rights movement; was once arrested for voting in a presidential election |
| Emma Willard | established a high school for women in troy ny; it taught all subjects especially math and science |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | first american woman to recieve a medical degree; was only woman in her class and was turned down by 29 colleges before she was accepted |
| Dorothea Dix | worked to improve treatment of mentally ill by urging states to build hospitals for them; also worked for prison reform by trying to get states to stop cruel punishment, lessen debtor sentences and build new prisons |
| Horace Mann | began work for public education in Massachusetts; called for new schools and better teacher training and pay |
| Thomas Gallaudet | established a school for the deaf |
| Gallaudet University | What school in Washington DC was named for Thomas Gallaudet? |
| Samuel Gridley Howe | established a school for the blind and created a system of raised letters so ppl could read with fingers |
| Neal Dow | leader of temperance movement; worked to end alcohol abuse |
| Mary Lyon | opened Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary; was not called a college because it was wrong for women to attend college |
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