a social movement urging reduced and prohibited use of alcoholic beverages
Temperance Movement
Religious revival in 1830s that inspired many social reforms of the century and emphasized human ability to avoid sin and improve one's self.
Second Great Awakening
a person who strongly favors ending slavery
abolitionist
Former slave that escaped. She was a women's rights advocate and abolitionist
Sojourner Truth
the movement organized around gaining voting rights for women.
suffrage movement
(1820-1906) An early leader of the women's suffrage (right to vote) movement, co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1869.
Susan B. Anthony
wrote the Liberator newspaper and worked for the immediate emancipation of all enslaved African Americans
William Lloyd Garrison
A conductor/leader of the Underground Railroad. - Used to be a slave, and she returned to the south 19 times leading over 300 slaves, including her parents, to freedom.