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12.3 terms and peeps
American History through 1877, Women's Rights
Term or Person | Explanation |
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Sojourner Truth | an illiterate former slave who fought for women's rights. |
Lucretia Mott | a Quaker who fought for abolition that was fighting for women's rights |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | was excluded from a meeting in London and was infuriated, so she created a convention for women's rights in NY |
women's suffrage | the right for women to vote |
women's rights movement | an organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status of women in American society |
Susan B. Anthony | a close ally of Stanton and co-founder of National Women's Suffrage Association 1869 |