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19 Cards in this Set
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John J. Audubon
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Did most accurate portrayals of bird life in early America
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Horace Mann
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“Father” of the Free (public) school movement in America (Massachusetts the first state to fund free schools with tax money)
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Sarah/Angelina Grimke
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Two Charleston sisters who fled Charleston for its narrow-mindedness on slavery and women’s rights
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Neal Dow
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Started “Prohibition Movement” that curbed the drinking problem in America
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Emma Willard
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Started Troy Institute in New York just for women in the 1800s (first women’s school of higher education)
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Joseph Smith
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founder of new American religion-Mormonism (have to move to Utah to worship freely because of polygamist beliefs)
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Robert Fulton
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engineer/inventor who developed the first successful steamboat (named the Clermont)
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Frances Flora Bond Palmer
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One of America’s first great female artists, painted riverboat scenes
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Samuel F.R. Morse
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Developed Morse Code (increased speed for communication over teletype lines)
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John Jacob Astor
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First multi-millionaire in America, creator of the first trust in America, made fortune in fur trading/real estate/opium
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
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Explored land purchased by the U.S. from France in the Louisiana Purchase
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Eli Whitney
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Invented the cotton gin, strengthened the economic foundation of slavery
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William Wilberforce
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(Hes British) Leader of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833
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Moses Austin
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Leader figure in development of American lead, first to obtain permission for Anglo-Americans to settle into Spanish-Texas
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Dorothea Dix
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Created first mental asylum (1802-1887)
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Francis Willard
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Women’s suffragist
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Mary Lyon
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Pioneer in Women’s education (established Wheaton female seminary in North Mass.)
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DeWitt Clinton
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Largely responsible for construction of the Erie Canal
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John C. Calhoun
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Part of “Agrarian Republicanism” party, to include approval of slavery and minority rights
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