Unit 4 Important People Flashcards by Michelle Vaccaro | Brainscape

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Washington Irving

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First US writer accepted abroad

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James Fenimore Cooper

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Writer of frontier, nature, Americanism, and Indians as noble savages

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Critic of transcendentalism

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Horace Greely

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Newspaper (Tribune)

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Alexis de Tocqueville

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French guy impressed with US (minus slavery)

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Susan B. Anthony

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Feminist

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Sojourner Truth

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African American feminist and abolitionist

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Seneca Falls

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Lucretia Mott

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Seneca Falls

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Eli Whitney

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Cotton gin

Standardized parts

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Samuel Slater

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Brought English factor system to US

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Samuel Morse

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Magnetic telegraph

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Isaac Singer

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Sewing machine

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Cyrus McCormack

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Mechanical reeper

Wheat crop

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Robert Fulton

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Steamboat

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James Audubon

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Flowers and birds

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Thomas Cole

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Hudson River Art School

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Gilbert Stuart

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Portraits

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Albert Bierstadt

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West is positive

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Stephen Foster

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Father of American music

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Emma WIllard

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Supporter of women’s education

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Mary Lyons

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Mount Holyoke

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Horace Mann

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Education reforms

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Noah Webster

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Dictionary

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William McGuffey

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Textbooks

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Phineas T Barnum

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Circus

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Abolitionist who founded The Liberator

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Robert Owen

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New Harmony

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Charles Finney

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Leader of Second Great Awakening

Father of Modern Revivalism

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Joseph Smith

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Mormonism

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Brigham Young

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Trek

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Fredrick Douglass

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Abolitionist who founded the North Star

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Nat Turner

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Slave rebellion

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Mary Baker Eddy

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Founder of Christian Science

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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First women to receive a medical degree

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Catherine Beecher

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Female education

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Dorthea Dix

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Asylum movement