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In the 19th century, a fellow special men and women took charge of their faith and stood up for what they believed in. In a time where women where looked at as property, this men and women looked to change things.
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Emma Willard opened one of the first academically rigorous schools for girls in Troy, New York. The school was named Troy Female Seminary.
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The American Temperance Society was formed in order to help reduced the use of alcohol and combat drunkenness. Within five years, there was 2,220 local chapters with 17,000 members.
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Prudence Crandall ran the first school to admit African American women in Canterbury, Conncticut.
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Angelina Grimké publishes An Appeal to Christian Women of the South in order to encourage women to help overthrow slavery.
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Ohio's Oberlin College became the first fully coeducational college because they admitted four women to their degree program.
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William Lloyd Garrison is one of the few men to help support women abolitionist.
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First women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Nearly 300 men and women attended the Wesleyan Methodist Church for the event.
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Elizabeth Blackwell was the first women to graduate medical college, attending Geneva Medical College. She later opened New York Infirmary For Women and Children.
