Apush Chapter 15 Important People

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Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason

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Declared all churches were set up to terrify and enslave mankind

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Peter Cartwright

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Best Methodist traveling frontiee preacher converted thosands out west

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Charles Finney Grandison

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Best Revivalist preacher- converted half a million in NY

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William Miller

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Founder of the Adventists whom believed in the second coming of Christ in October 22, 1844

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Joseph Smith

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Founder of the Mormon Faith

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Brigham Young

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Led Mormons to Utah

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Horace Mann

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Father of American public education; longer school years & better teachers

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Noah Webster

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Made curriculum for school kids & wrote dictionary that standardized the American Language

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William H. McGuffey

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Wrote McGuffey's readers that promoted lessons in morality- sold 122 million

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Emma Willard

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Founded Troy Seminary in NY

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Mary Lyon

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Founded Holyoke Seminary in MA

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Dorothea Dix

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Petitioned MA Legislature to improve prison conditions and treate mentally ill better

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William Ladd

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Founder of the American Peace Society

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TS Arthur

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Wrote 10 Nights in a Barroom temperence & 2nd bestselling book

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Neal S. Dow

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Mayor of Portland, Maine father of prohibiton passed anti alcohol Maine Law of 1851

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Catharine Beecher

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Sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and promoter of the cult of domesticity

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Lucrieta Mott

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Major advocate of womens rights & a Quaker

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Organized Seneca falls conference

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Susan B. Anthony

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Born quaker and famous speaker

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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First female graduate of a medical college

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Margaret Fuller

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Transcendentalist & Feminist author and promoter of an Italian republic

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Grimké sisters

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Abolishionist writers

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Amelia Bloomer

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Developed new fashion style for women's lib: Bloomers

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Robert Owen

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Founded "Owenites" communist experiment in New Harmony, Indiana

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Mother Ann Lee

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Founded the Shakers

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Nathaniel Bowditch

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Wrote on pratical navigation

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Matthew F. Maury

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Oceanographer wrote on currents & winds

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Professor Benjamin Silliman

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Best American Scientist taught at Yale and pioneered Chemistry & Geology

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John J. Audubon

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Painted wildfowel in their natural habitats

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Sylvestor Graham

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Whole Wheat fad diet

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John Humphrey Noyes

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Founded the Oneidan commune

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Gilbert Stuart

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Painted glorified George Washington

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Willson Peale

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Painted George Washington 60 times

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John Trumball

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Recaptured revolutionary war scenes in his paintings

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Thomas Cole

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Founder of the Hudson Art School

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Louis Daguerre

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Perfected the Daguerreotype

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Stephen Foster

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Wrote folk music for blacks

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Washington Irving

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Best all round writer of the Knickerbocker group- sleepy hollow

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James Fenimore Cooper

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First American Novelist- Last of Mohicans

Contrasted values of natural men against modern civilization

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William Cullen

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Wrote Thantaposis- best poet of the Knickerbocker group

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Urged American writers to focus on American tradition- Unitarian & Transcendentalist

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Henry David Thoreau

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Believed in civil disobedience

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Walt Whitman

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Wrote poems like Leaves of Grass and was the Poet Laureate of Democracy

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Wrote poems for upper classes about American traditions but adopted by masses

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John Greenleaf Whittier

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Antislavery poet

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James Lowell

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Satirist and great poet

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Taught Anatomy at Harvard and wrote the poetry, "the last leaf" about the Boston Tea Party

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Louisa May Alcott

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Wrote Little Women

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Emily Dickinson

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Recluse poet

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William Gilmore Simms

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Best Southern author pre civil war and wrote 82 books

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Drunk and wrote dark poetry

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Nathaniel Hawthorn

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Wrote a Scarlett Letter

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Herman Melville

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Wrote Moby Dick

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George Bancroft

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Father of American History

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William Prescott

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Published accounts on conquest of Mexico and Peru

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Francis Parkman

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Chronicled France and Britain struggle for North America