Ch. 16 Review

Declaration of Sentiments   Petition of grievances written by the women at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York. It is written exactly as the Declaration of Independence, with minor changes in wording. The document pushed the equality of men and women, also for the inclusion of women in the political process, and rights to their own property and wages. The main signers were Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frederick Douglass. Civil Disobedience Essay written by Henry David Thoreau, in which he outlines his beliefs in passive [peaceful] resistance of unjust laws passed by the governments of the United States. The document outlines a peaceful and non-violent form of protest. His example was not paying taxes to a government that supported and funded the war with Mexico and the institution of slavery; he was eventually jailed for this action.

John James Audubon   A member of the Hudson River School. He was a naturalist specializing in painting the birds of America. Through his observation of birds and nature, he became a conservationist. He illustrated a collection of 435 life size prints of America birds called “Birds of America.” Today, the Audubon Society continues his spirit of protecting birds and their habitats. Henry David Thoreau Heavily influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson, he was a transcendentalist author who wrote many books and poems. His most famous book is called Walden. In this book he set forth his ideas about how an individual should live to be attuned to his own nature as well as to nature itself. He is known for his civil disobedience when he was jailed for not paying taxes to support the Mexican War. Thoreau’s most famous essay was On the Duty of Civil Disobedience published in 1849, in which he called for passive resistance to unjust laws.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Frederick Douglass   A leader of the abolitionist movement in the decades prior to the Civil War. He was born a slave in Maryland and eventually escaped to the North. He founded an antislavery newspaper called the North Star, which he published for 13 years. He participated in the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls in 1848 and wrote three autobiographies. He also served as an advisor to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and helped recruit African Americans into the Union army. After the war, he held several public offices and campaigned for full civil rights for African Americans and women’s suffrage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton A leader in the women’s rights movement. Unlike most women of her era, she was formally educated. She planned and organized the first women’s rights movement in the United States, called the Seneca Falls Convention for Women’s Rights in Seneca Falls, New York She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions which was modeled after the Declaration of Independence. She is regarded as one of the true major forces in the drive towards equal rights for women in the United States.

Greatest American History Facts: Colonization thru Reconstruction Super STAAR 130 Greatest American History Facts: Colonization thru Reconstruction ___________________________, a revival of religious spirit in America helped usher in an era of reform in mid-19th Century America The Second Great Awakening

96. Reform movements like : Super STAAR 130 Greatest American History Facts: Colonization thru Reconstruction 96. Reform movements like : _____________________ promotes knowledge and skills that open the doors to opportunity. Public Education “Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men…” _______________, 1848 Horace Mann

Declaration of Sentiments, Super STAAR 130 Greatest American History Facts: Colonization thru Reconstruction 97. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, and helped to author the creating the ________________________modeled after the __________________________ Declaration of Sentiments, Declaration of Independence Ain’t I a woman? Sojourner Truth Women are prevented from Speaking publicly at Abolitionist meetings. Women join the abolitionist Movement. ? Women’s Rights Movement

Greatest American History Facts: Colonization thru Reconstruction Super STAAR 130 Greatest American History Facts: Colonization thru Reconstruction 98. The ______________________was a campaign against the sale or drinking of alcohol. Temperance Movement

Super STAAR 130 Greatest American History Facts: Colonization thru Reconstruction 99. An _____________was a person who wanted to end slavery in the United States. - _________to get rid of. abolitionist Abolish Harriet Tubman _________________helped over 300 slaves to freedom in the North through the Underground Railroad. ______________________Outspoken white abolitionist Founded _____________, an anti-slavery magazine, in 1831. William Lloyd Garrison The Liberator

Super STAAR 130 Greatest American History Facts: Colonization thru Reconstruction “The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common….This Fourth of July is yours not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” - Frederick Douglass, speaking at a 4th of July celebration in 1852 102.__________________ was a former slave who became a well-known abolitionist in the country. Frederick Douglass

Greatest American History Facts: Colonization thru Reconstruction Super STAAR 130 Greatest American History Facts: Colonization thru Reconstruction 103. ________________, an Anti-slavery novel written by ___________________, created widespread abolitionist support among Northerners. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe