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Down: 1) was a Connecticut Quaker that began a school for African American girls. Even though many people disagreed, he continued to teach, until people got angrier and trashed the school.2) was the best poet in the mid-1800's. He wrote about the past and honored the heroes of the past. He also wrote about Native American life.4) was a white abolitionist. He wrote a newspaper called the Liberator which affected the most amount of people. He helped form the New England Anti-Slavery Society.5) was the daughter of a judge and was very smart and athletic. Yet, her father never appreciated her and she thought that it was because she was a girl. She was also refused in London and continued to defend women's rights.6) is shone today as one of the nation's greatest poets. She wrote 1,700 poems, but never published more than 7 due to her shyness. She called her poems, "my letter to the world." She never left home.7) wanted to expand the education of people with disabilities, so he set up a school for the deaf in Hartford in 1817.8) was originally named Isabella and a very effective women's rights leaders. She vowed to God to travel and speak the truth, so she changed her name. She was a very capturing speaker that stressed that women can do as much work as a man.9) was one of the most inspiring abolitionists for women's rights. She was a Quaker with 5 children. She used logic to persuade the people and gain their respect. She also set up petition drives in the North. After getting refused at the Antislavery Convention in London, she urged women's rights even more.10) wrote many books about the past. He wrote about the relations between white settlers and Native Americans. A made-up character would live through these stories. His stories gave Americans a wealthy feeling.12) exelled in other fields, too. She got to edit the women's magazine, Gody's Lady's Book, which was very inspiring.14) was the head of the Massachusetts Board of Education. He helped enforce the law of setting up tax supported school districts by building new schools, raising teacher's pays, and setting up colleges to train teachers. The school day was also extended. Many states followed his example.17) was the daughter of a South Carolina slaveholder. She moved to Pennsylvania because she disliked slavery and then she joined the abolitionists. She talked in front of crowds and also worked for women's rights.18) founded the "college" called Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for women. She didn't call it a college because people didn't think women were fit for college, but it was the first college in the US. Across: 3) was a slave who excaped to teh North using the Underground Railroad. She became a conductor on the Railroad. As a conductor, she risked her own freedom to return to the south more than 19 times and led over 300 slaves to freedom. Admirers referred to her as the "Black Moses" and slave owners offered $40,000 for her capture.8) was one of the leaders of teh Second Great Awakening. He was a powerful speaker who thought that solving personal problems would add up to solve the bigger picture of the world. His teachings influenced many people to improve society. He wanted Christians on a crusade to abolish slavery.11) was one of the leaders of teh Second Great Awakening. He was a powerful speaker who thought that solving personal problems would add up to solve the bigger picture of the world. His teachings influenced many people to improve society. He wanted Christians on a crusade to abolish slavery.13) was a slave that escaped and became a well-known abolitionist of slavery. He learnt to read secretly and spoke to an audience of the badness of slavery and made them cry. He traveled across the US and even out of country to Britain to talk about the effects of slavery. After that, he published a newspaper on antislavery called the North Star.15) was a Boston schoolteacher. She was mad to find that some people in jail were mentally ill, not criminals. She visited many prisons and jails and wrote about the mentally ill. Her works helped convince the state legislatures to found a mental institute. She also improved prison conditions and helped stop debtors from being treated as criminals.16) was the most popular essayist and lecturer. Many people liked hearing him talk about character and nature. He repeatedly urged individualism to guide people's lives and improve the society around them.19) wrote similarly to Emerson. He wanted life to be as simple as possible and not form too much industry. Each person should make choices he said. He thought people could reject something if they thought it was unfair. He went to jail for refusing to pay taxes for the Mexican War. He later influence MLK Jr. and Gandhi.20) wrote only one book of poems, Leaves of Grass, but kept adding to it. He believed in the common people and wrote about being proud of the nation of deomcracy.21) wanted to improve women's education, so she opened up a high school for girls in Troy, New York. Here, the girls took subjects that were only fit for men at that time.22) was one of the most popular American writers. He wrote a book that contained many stories and was called, "The Sketch Book." He was famous in Europe.23) was the first African American to pursue his career as a writer and be successful. He wrote and talked about the lives of slaves in the US and Europe. His book was called, "Clotel."24) founded an abolitionist newspaper called Freedom's Journal. They wanted to influence the public to go against slavery by talking about the inhumane treatment of the slaves.
 

 

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