People from Antebellum period

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