"A Spirit of Change" Flashcards
Walt Whitman
published “Leaves of Grass,” a book that changed American poetry
Margaret Fuller
New England transcendentalist ; argued for woman’s rights
Herman Melville
won fame by writing thrilling novels about his experience as a sailor
Henry David Thoreau
said that people should live by their own standards
Edgar Allen Poe
wrote terrifying tales that influenced today’s horror story writers
Nathaniel Hawthorne
depicted love, guilt, and revenge during Puritan times
Dorothea Dix
pleaded with the Massachusetts Legislature to improv the care of mentally ill
Horace Mann
set up the first state board of education in the United States
Fredrick Douglas
abolitionist speaker ; lecturer
Harriet Tubman
one of the most famous conductors
William Garrison
began to publish an abolitionist newspaper
Sojourner Truth
abolitionist speaker ; a family helped her win a court battle to get her son back
Elizabeth Stanton
part of an American delegation that attended the world Anti-Slavery Convention
Sarah Hale
a widow who used writing to support her family
Steerage
the cheapest deck on a ship
Penny Papers
cheaper newsprint and the invention of the steam-driven press lowered the price of a newspaper to a penny
Seneca Falls Convention
for woman’s rights
Nativists
native-born Americans who wanted to eliminate foreign influence
Transcendentalism
a new philosophy that taught that the spiritual world is that than the real world
Temperance Societies
a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol
Labor Union
a group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions
Emigrant
a person who leaves a country
Second Great Awakening
renewal of religious faith
Know-Nothing Party
had very strong opinions about immigrants
Utopian Examples
New Harmony, Indiana
Brooke Farm, Massachusetts
Underground Railroad
an underground series of escape ways slaves would travel to be free
Washington Irving
wrote some of the first stories to describe America
Asher Durand
created the Hudson River School
John Audobon
as he traveled, he sketched birds and animals
Thomas Galudet
started the first school for the dead
Samuel Howe
founded the Perkins school for the blind
Susan B. Anthony
worked in the temperance movement and Anti-Slavery Movment
Angelina Grimke
opposed slavery ; joined the Anti-Slavery Society
David Walker
printed a pamphlet urging slaves to revolt
Ralph Waldo Emerson
urger Americans to cast off European influence & develop their own beliefs
