CHAPTER 13.5 KEY TERMS Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) American woman suffrage leader, she organized the Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott. The Convention was the first organized meeting for women’s rights in the United States, which launched the suffrage movement. Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) American reformer, she planned the Seneca Falls Convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first organized meeting for women’s rights in the United States. Seneca Falls Convention (1848) the first national women’s rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written. Declaration of Sentiments (1848) a statement written and signed by women’s rights supporters at the Seneca Falls Convention; detailed their beliefs about social injustice against women. Lucy Stone (1818-1893) American woman suffragist, she was a well-known and accomplished anti- slavery speaker who supported the women’s rights movement. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) American social reformer, she was active in the temperance, abolitionist, and women’s suffrage movements and was co- organizer and president of the National Woman Suffrage Association. The Grimké Sisters in 1838, Sarah Grimké published a pamphlet arguing for equal rights for women, she also argued for equal educational opportunities and she demanded equal pay for equal work. Sarah never married because the laws of that day gave control of the wife’s property to the husband. She felt she would feel more like a slave than a wife. Angelina Grimké did marry but she refused to promise to obey her husband during their marriage ceremony. She married an abolitionist, Theodore Weld, who agreed to give up his legal right to control his wife. The Grimké sister’s abolitionists principles and women’s rights were identical. Margaret Fuller a famous transcendentalist who published, Woman in the Nineteenth Century which explained the role of women. She used democratic and transcendentalist principles to stress the importance of individualism. Isabella Baumfree powerful supporter of both abolition and women’s rights. Born into slavery, around 1797, she took the name Sojourner Truth because she felt her mission was to be a sojourner traveler and spread the truth. She never learned to read or write, but that didn’t stop her from being a powerful speaker. .