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12 Cards in this Set
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Charles Finney
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A revivalist preacher in the Second Great Awakening
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A transcendentalist writer and philosopher
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Henry David Thoreau
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A transcendentalist writer who put self-reliance into practice by moving into nature for two years
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Dorothea Dix
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A leader in the reform to change the conditions in jail and build mental institutions
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William Lloyd Garrison
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An active religious reformist who began editing an antislavery paper, established The Liberator for emancipation
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David Walker
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A free black who urged blacks to take freedom, wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizen of the World
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Frederick Douglass
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An escaped slave who read The Liberator and made many speeches for the American Anti-Slavery Society
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Nat Turner
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A plantation slave in Virginia who organized a bloody rebelliiion that left many dead and strengthened the resolved of Southern whites to defend slavery and control their slaves.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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One of the leaders of the Seneca Falls convention for women's rights
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Lucretia Mott
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One of the leaders of the Senca Falls convention
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Gimke Sisters
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women abolitionists who spoke out publicly,wrote books, raised money and collected signatures for petitions for abolition
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Sojourner Truth
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Isabella Baumfree, a slave for the first 30 years of her life then traveled through the country arguing for abolition and at the women's right convention refuted that she was weak, or not feminine.
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