Names Ch. 15 Flashcards
Stephen Foster
PA composer of black folk music
Dorothea Dix
Campaigned for mentally ill
James Russell Lowell
Poet, editor, diplomat
Neal Dow
Father of Prohibition = tried to get law passed in Maine
Washington Irving
Author: tales of sleepy hollow
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lecturer, poet, physician
Lucretia Mott
Was not seated at the antis lambert convention in London 1840
James fenimore cooper
American writer; last of the Mohicans
William Gilmore Simms
Poet historian from South
Horace Mann
Wanted better curricula for schools and more funding
Peter Cartwright
Methodist revivalist in Midwest
Noah Webster
Dictionary
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Refused to use “obey” in marriage rights
William Cullen Bryant
Poet; thanatopsis
Edgar Allan Poe
Writer