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VA US 6.6
VA US Vocabulary 6.6
Term | Definition |
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matrilineal | when inheritance is passed down through the female side of the family |
Sojourner Truth | Born a slave named Isabella; gained her freedom in 1827 and went on to become a leading African American evangelist and reformer in the abolition and women's rights movements. |
women's movement | A movement beginning in the mid-1800s in the United States that sought greater rights and opportunities. |
Lucretia Mott | Worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to organize the Seneca Falls Convention; influential player in the women's rights movement. |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Worked with Lucretia Mott and others to organize the Seneca Falls Convention. Pushed for women to fight for the right to vote |
Seneca Falls Convention | Held in New York in 1848, the first women's rights convention in the United States. |
Amelia Bloomer | Became influential in the temperance and women's rights movements; founded "The Lily: A Ladies Journal Devoted to Temperance and Literature" in 1849 |
suffrage | the right to vote |
Married Women's Property Act | 1848 New York State law that guaranteed greater property rights for women |