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People (Final) Flashcards

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Eli Whitney

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Invented the Cotton Gin (Cotton replaced tobacco as king product of the South)

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John Deer

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Invented the self-scouring steel plow (made planting easier)

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Cyrus McCormick

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Invented the Reaper (made harvesting easier)

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Robert Raikes

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Father of the Sunday School Movement

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Andrew Bell

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Monitorial Schools (older students teach the younger students)

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Josiah Holbrook

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The Lyceum movement (education for adults)

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William Maclure

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American Journal of Education

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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unitarian preacher/transcendentalist (speaker of the lyceum movement)

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Robert Owen

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Father of Utopian Socialism; Believed “twin sins” of the West were capitalism and religion; New Harmony Indiana

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Orestes Brownson

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Part of New Harmony; wanted to get rid of Christianity using state/national schools

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Edward Everett

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Gov. of Massachusetts

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James G. Carter

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“The uncontrolled mind is a dangerous mind”

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Horace Mann

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“Father of Public Education”; State is father of child; Unitarian, Phrenologist, and Pestalozzian

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Johann Fichte

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Father of Prussian Model; Combined Locke and Rousseau

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John Swett

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“Horace Mann of the Pacific Northwest”

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Robert Dale Owen

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Pennsylvania Free School Act of 1834

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James Slater

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Gave $1 million to black education (vocational training)

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Caroline Stokes

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Gave $1 million for black education in America and Liberia

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Booker T. Washington

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Started Tuskegee Institute

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George Washington Carver

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300 uses for the peanut (worked at Tuskegee)

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W. E. B. DuBois

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First black man to go to Harvard (activist; hated Carver and Washington; communist)

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Walter Hines Page

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“Poor white trash” (describing south)

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Jane Adams

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Hull House (women’s shelter); first women to win Nobel prize

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Margaret Sanger

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Planned Parenthood

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Charles Darwin

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Origin of Species 1859

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Charles William Eliot

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President of Harvard for 40 years; changed motto to “veritas” (truth)

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William Graham Sumner

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Yale Professor; “The drunkard in the gutter is where he ought to be”

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Herbert Spencer

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God is unknowable; “Bulldog of social Darwinism”

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Johanne Fridrich Herbart

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Reduced the art of teaching down to a science (Herbartian Style: Preparation, Presentation, Association, Systematization, Application)

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