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26 Cards in this Set
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Dorothea Dix
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Published reports on cruel conditions of asylums, which led to improved conditions and a gain for the concept that the people in asylums were not willfully perverse.
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Washington Irving
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First American general writer, main figure of Knickerbocker Group (but didn't invent it). Invented the Knickerbocker "scandal".
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Lucretia Mott
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Fought for women's rights. Was a Quaker who was angered when she and friends at the London antislavery convention of 1840 were not recognized.
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James Fenimore Cooper
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1st American novelist. Also in Knickerbocker Group
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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First female graduate of a medical college.
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Horace Mann
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campaigned for better schoolhouses, longer school terms, higher pay for teachers, and expanded curriculum.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Fought for women's rights. Insisted on leaving 'obey' out of her marriage ceremony.
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Susan B. Anthony
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Lecturer for women's rights.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Writer of dark stories/poetry, but had a usually optimistic tone of American culture.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Main figure of Transcendentalism. Stressed self-reliance, improvement, confidence, optimism, freedom, and anti-slavery.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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writings reflected Calvinist obsession with original sin and struggle between good and evil. Wrote "The Scarlet Letter"
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Henry David Thoreau
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Follower of Transcendentalism. Lived for 2 years in a hut on Walden Pond.
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Herman Melville
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Wrote "Moby Dick"
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Charles G Finney
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Greatest revival preacher, encouraged women to pray alound, denounced alchol and slavery.
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William McGuffey
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Published grade-School readers, emphasized morality, patriotism, and idealism.
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Joseph Smith
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founder of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormonism), murdered in 1844 with brother.
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Walt Whitman
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Person of Transcendentalism, romantic, emotional, unconventional, "Poet Laureate of Democracy". Wrote "Leaves of Grass".
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John J. Audubon
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In the Science field, published "Birds of America".
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Lousia May Alcott
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Published "Little Women"
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Gilbert Stuart
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Painted portraits
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Brigham Young
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Later leader of the Mormons, led them to Utah.
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Peter Cartwright
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Best known of wandering Methodist frontier preachers.
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Neal Dow
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Sponsor of Maine Law of 1851
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Noah Webster
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reading lessons were designed to promote patriotism, published dictionary in 1828 helping standardize English language
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Grimke Sisters
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were for anti-slavery
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Charles Willson Peale
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Painted portraits
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