Names Ch. 15

Question 0

Stephen Foster

Answer 0

PA composer of black folk music

Question 1

Dorothea Dix

Answer 1

Campaigned for mentally ill

Question 2

James Russell Lowell

Answer 2

Poet, editor, diplomat

Question 3

Neal Dow

Answer 3

Father of Prohibition = tried to get law passed in Maine

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Washington Irving

Answer 4

Author: tales of sleepy hollow

Question 5

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Answer 5

Lecturer, poet, physician

Question 6

Lucretia Mott

Answer 6

Was not seated at the antis lambert convention in London 1840

Question 7

James fenimore cooper

Answer 7

American writer; last of the Mohicans

Question 8

William Gilmore Simms

Answer 8

Poet historian from South

Question 9

Horace Mann

Answer 9

Wanted better curricula for schools and more funding

Question 10

Peter Cartwright

Answer 10

Methodist revivalist in Midwest

Question 11

Noah Webster

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Dictionary

Question 12

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 12

Refused to use “obey” in marriage rights

Question 13

William Cullen Bryant

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Poet; thanatopsis

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Edgar Allan Poe

Answer 14

Writer

Question 15

Susan B. Anthony

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Major suffragist

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 16

Transcendentalist

Question 17

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer 17

Writer; The Scarlet Letter

Question 18

Robert Owen

Answer 18

Founded New Harmony

Question 19

Henry David Thoreau

Answer 19

Major Transcendentalist; on the duty of civil disobedience

Question 20

Herman Melville

Answer 20

Writer; Moby Dick

Question 21

Charles G. finney

Answer 21

Important methodist

Question 22

William H. McGuffey

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Made readers; emphasized morality, idealism…

Question 23

Joseph Smith

Answer 23

Founded Mormons

Question 24

Emma Willard

Answer 24

Founded Troy female seminary in NY

Question 25

Louis Agassiz

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Scientist in 1800s; botanist; carried snakes

Question 26

Walt Whitman

Answer 26

Poet; best selling book of poetry

Question 27

John J Audubon

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Studied birds and painted

Question 28

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Answer 28

Writer of books

Question 29

William H. Prescott

Answer 29

American historian

Question 30

Gilbert Stuart

Answer 30

Painter from RI

Question 31

John Greenleaf Whittier

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Poet abolitionist

Question 32

Francis Parkman

Answer 32

Historian

Question 33

Brigham Young

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took over Mormons after Smith, moved them to Utah

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Phineas T. Barnum

Answer 34

Circuses and entertainer

Question 35

Horace Greeley

Answer 35

Newspaper abolitionist, founded liberal repub party