Education Reform & Women's Rights

Why was the Seneca Falls Convention such and important Event?

• It launched the women's rights movement in the U.S.

• it resulted in the Know-Nothing Party

• It limited immigration to the U.S.

• It led to the Second Great Awakening

He spread the ideas about public education an influenced many states to open public elementary schools

• Horace Mann

• Fredrick Douglas

• Henry David Thoreau

• Andrew Jackson

It means the right to vote

• suffrage

• abolition

• temperance

• steerage

She fought for women's rights and women's suffrage.

• Susan B. Anthony

• Harriet Tubman

• Dorthea Dix

• Dolly Madison