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Catherine Beecher
A proponent of the Cult of Domesticity who encouraged her sisters to enter the teaching profession
Samuel Slater
Father of the American factory system
American Colonization Society
Founded for the purpose of transporting blacks back to Africa
Frederick Douglass
American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman
Third Race
Free blacks in the south were called this, as they were prohibited from certain occupations and could not testify in court against whites
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which contributed to the beginning of the Civil War
Horace Mann
He campaigned for better schools, higher teacher pay, and longer school terms.
Charles Finney
He devised the "anxious bench" where repentant sinners could sit in full view of the congregation
Henry David Thoreau
He lived at Walden Pond and wrote the essay "Civil Disobedience"
William Lloyd Garrison
He published the newspaper called The Liberator and was a militant abolitionist
Herman Melville
He wrote Moby Dick
Walt Whitman
His most famous book of poems was Leaves of Grass
Eli Whitney
Invented interchangeable parts which streamlined factory production
Robert Fulton
Invented the steamboat
Susan B. Anthony
She fought for women's suffrage with Elizabeth Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
She insisted on leaving "obey" out of her marriage vows and was a proponent of woman's suffrage
The Black Belt
The area from South Carolina to Georgia that stretched into the new southwest states of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana where most slaves were concentrated
Louisa May Alcott
The author of Little Women
The author of The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Peter Cartwright
The best known Methodist preacher who was a traveling minister
Joseph Smith
The founder of the Mormon church.
John J. Audubon
The naturalist who wrote and illustrated the book Birds of America
Brigham Young
The person that lead a persecuted religious group into the untamed frontier of Utah.
Samuel Morse
With his invention, there was no longer a need for the Pony Express
Dorothea Dix
Worked to overhaul the treatment of the mentally insane
James Fenimore Cooper
Wrote The Last of the Mohicans
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