Chapter 16: Reform: People

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Across
  1. 3. Born into slavery, most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, even though there was a price on her head, she made 19 trips into the South to help lead others to freedom
  2. 5. Started publishing the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator in 1831
  3. 6. Met Person #6 at a abolitionist convention in London where they became close friends and organized a convention in New York
  4. 7. Believed that the mentally ill were being treated harshly, starting in 1841 she began working to improve conditions
  5. 8. Writer who wanted Americans to take pride in their own culture, member of a group of thinkers who started transcendentalism
  6. 10. Developed a method to teach the hearing impaired and opened the Hartford School for the Deaf in 1817
  7. 13. French born artist who is best known for his paintings of Birds of America
  8. 14. An American poet who wrote about nature, love, and death, most poems were published after her death
  9. 15. Took up the cause of Women’s Rights when they were denied access to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840, helped organize a convention on the subject in their New York hometown
Down
  1. 1. In 1837 became the head of the 1st state board of education, known as the “Father of Public Education” believed that education was “The Great Equalizer”
  2. 2. Former slave who escaped in 1838 and became one of the speakers for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, published an anti-slavery newspaper called The North Star
  3. 4. South Carolina sisters who traded their inheritance to free the family slaves. Also, wrote a collection of firsthand accounts of slavery in "American Slavery As It Is" in 1839
  4. 9. Student of Emerson who believed that people should live up to their own individual standards, also thought that people should not obey laws they considered unjust
  5. 11. Worked for temperance, abolition, and women’s rights, especially wanted to see women get the right to control their own property and wages
  6. 12. Born into slavery, her original name was Isabella Baumfee, fought through the courts to regain her son, fought for abolition and women’s rights