Historical Individuals

She was a women's rights leader in the late 1800's. She helped lead the way for women's suffrage in the U.S.

• Harriet Tubman

• Susan B. Anthony

He was born on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. As a free man and abolitionist, he published the anti-slavery newspaper The North Star.

• Frederick Douglass

• James Armistead

She, along with other women, held the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York and fought for suffrage. She presented an important document called the Declaration of Sentiments modeled after the Declaration of Independence.

• Rosa Parks

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin and this only sparked support for the abolitionist movement in the North. The South banned the sale of her book.

• Dorothea Dix

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Her reformed efforts led to the improvement of facilities for the mentally ill and disabled.

• Dorothea Dix

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

He was an abolitionist who thought violence was necessary to end slavery.

• John Brown

• Thomas Cole

They helped found the New York Manumission Society. Slavery contradicted their religious beliefs.

• Quakers

• Puritans

They discouraged the consumption of alcoholic beverages. They participated in social reforms and formed a society

• Women's Temperance Movement

• Whiskey Rebellion

He introduced interchangeable parts that led to the direction of the use of mass-production techniques.

• John Deer

• Eli Whitney

He focused on relationships between humans and the natural world. He was jailed for one night for failing to pay his taxes in protest against a government that enforced slavery and felt had wrongly gone to war with Mexico to extend slavery.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry David Thoreau