Unit 4: Important Figures

Question 1

Dorothea Dix

Answer 1

asylum reformer, established early mental asylums and worked with military nurses to establish nursing standards.

Question 2

ralph waldo emmerson

Answer 2

leader of the transcendentalist movement, which was a protest against the general state of culture and society.

Question 3

lyman beecher

Answer 3

member of the temperance movement, against alchol and pro abstinence.

Question 4

susan b anthony

Answer 4

american civil rights and feminist. played a pivotal role in womens suffrage

Question 5

charles grandison Finney

Answer 5

a leader in the second great awakening, called the father of modern revivalism

Question 6

william loyd garrison

Answer 6

began the liberator magazine, burned the constitution calling it a slave document.

Question 7

sam houston

Answer 7

leader in the movement to bring texas into the union, was the first and third president of texas.

Question 8

joseph smith and Brigham young

Answer 8

founders of the latter day saints(mormonism), which got a little freaky deaky with the polygamy, so they ran into a lot of issues with people hating on his religion

Question 9

horace mann

Answer 9

involved in education reform, father of the common school

Question 10

nicholas biddle

Answer 10

served as the presidet of the second bank of the united states

Question 11

lucretia mott

Answer 11

organized the womens rights convention, because she was a female teacher earning half as much as men

Question 12

henry david thoreau

Answer 12

a poet/writer, supported abolitionism and transcendentalism, and aruged for civil disobediance against an unjust state

Question 13

james fenimore cooper

Answer 13

wrote romantically about the frontier, wrote the last of the mohicans

Question 14

horace greely

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was an american newspaper editor and founder of the liberal republican party

Question 15

cyrus mckormick

Answer 15

invented the mechanichal reaper

Question 16

samual morse

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invented the single wire telegraphy system, and co developer of morse code

Question 17

harriet beecher stowe

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american abolitionist and author, wrote uncle toms cabin

Question 18

elizabeth cady staton

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fought for womens suffarage, wanted a ton more powers for women and was against the 14 and 15 amendment, because it didnt include women

Question 19

john slidell

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US senator, fought for southern rights

Question 20

john tyler

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was the vice president for Harrison, was the first to be promoted to full on president from vice, and he shot down a pile of whig bills and brought in the log cabin bill to sell land for cheap

Question 21

zachary taylor

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a general against mexico, used his war heroness to propel himself to presidency

Question 22

david wilmot

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sponsor of wilmot proviso, aiming to ban slavery in land gained from mexico

Question 23

james k polk

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vowed to serve only one term, listed specific goals and nailed them. goals where oregon & money

Question 24

john c fremont

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candidate for the anti slavery republican party, as a major in the army took control of the bear flag republic

Question 25

martin van buren

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ran against william henry harrison in election of 1840, was portrayed as an out of touch rich guy and in a later election became the president

Question 26

arthur and lewis tappan

Answer 26

supported abolitionism and anti slavery with a ton of money

Question 27

sarah and angelina grimke

Answer 27

argued against slavery at its very core, that it went completely against american ideals and we should entirely remove it now and forever