Match Each Description with the Item Below

Match each description with the item below.
-Dorothea Lynde Dix

A) was able to devote most of her attention as an unmarried woman to the women's movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention
B) was the most successful circuit rider and went on to run for Congress against Abraham Lincoln
C) gave riveting speeches against slavery, became the first woman officer in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and championed women's rights and temperance
D) was the founder of the Shakers and was thought to be a prophet and seer to equated cleanliness, hard work, and chastity with saintliness
E) gathered a group of "Perfectionists" in Vermont, banned private property, and proclaimed a new doctrine called "complex marriage"
F) was a poet who would become a leader of the women's suffrage movement after her oppressive husband's death
G) was a leading but controversial health reformer who promoted a strict diet and discouraged sexual activity
H) advocated for the reform of insane asylums and proved the most important figure in boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
I) was an escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate, a traveling speaker, and the best-known man of color in America
J) was a former slave who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and helped runaway slaves cross the border into Canada

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