Names Ch. 15 Flashcards

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Stephen Foster

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PA composer of black folk music

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Dorothea Dix

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Campaigned for mentally ill

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James Russell Lowell

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Poet, editor, diplomat

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Neal Dow

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Father of Prohibition = tried to get law passed in Maine

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Washington Irving

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Author: tales of sleepy hollow

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Lecturer, poet, physician

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Lucretia Mott

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Was not seated at the antis lambert convention in London 1840

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James fenimore cooper

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American writer; last of the Mohicans

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William Gilmore Simms

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Poet historian from South

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Horace Mann

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Wanted better curricula for schools and more funding

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Peter Cartwright

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Methodist revivalist in Midwest

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Noah Webster

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Dictionary

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Refused to use “obey” in marriage rights

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William Cullen Bryant

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Poet; thanatopsis

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Writer

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Susan B. Anthony

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Major suffragist

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Transcendentalist

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Writer; The Scarlet Letter

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Robert Owen

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Founded New Harmony

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Henry David Thoreau

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Major Transcendentalist; on the duty of civil disobedience

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Herman Melville

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Writer; Moby Dick

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Charles G. finney

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Important methodist

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William H. McGuffey

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Made readers; emphasized morality, idealism…

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Joseph Smith

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Founded Mormons

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Emma Willard

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Founded Troy female seminary in NY

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Louis Agassiz

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Scientist in 1800s; botanist; carried snakes

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Walt Whitman

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Poet; best selling book of poetry

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John J Audubon

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Studied birds and painted

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Writer of books

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William H. Prescott

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American historian

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Gilbert Stuart

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Painter from RI

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John Greenleaf Whittier

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Poet abolitionist

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Francis Parkman

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Historian

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Brigham Young

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took over Mormons after Smith, moved them to Utah

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Phineas T. Barnum

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Circuses and entertainer

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Horace Greeley

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Newspaper abolitionist, founded liberal repub party