us history chap 11

Washington Irving

author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"; Father of the American Short Story

Stephen Foster

best-known American composer of the early 1800s and the first professional songwriter

Noah Webster

country schoolteacher who influenced several generations of American children through his American Spelling Book, nicknamed the Blue-Backed Speller

lyceums

programs that helped meet the demand in 1800s for knowledge and culture by conduction discussions and establishing libraries and public schools and sponsored lecture series featuring America's leading political and intellectual figures

Horace Mann

promoter of the idea of public primary school for all children; founded the first school for the training of teachers

Herman Melville

author of Moby Dick

The Scarlett Letter

A Romance is a historical novel by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850

Oliver Wendell Holmes

one of the Fireside Poets who was also an essayist and medical doctor and is noted for his patriotic verse and good common sense

Edgar Allan Poe

writer who introduced the detective story as a form of literature and wrote many poems and stories defined by a sense of darkness and foreboding and popular for their appeal to the human sense of mystery and intrigue

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

one of the Fireside poets who wrote many poems, including longer and narrative poems, and received worldwide recognition as a creative genius; only American poet honoured in Westminster Abbey

William McGuffey

Presbyterian preacher, schoolteacher, and college professor who wrote and published the Eclectic Readers

Oberlin College

first college to open its doors to women

Wesleyan College

first college for women only

James Russell Lowell

one of the Fireside Poets who distinguished himself not only through powerful patriotic verse but also through work in foreign diplomacy, law, and linguistics

cotton gin

a machine that separates cotton seeds from the cotton fibers

Eli Whitney

inventor of the cotton gin

University of North Carolina

first state university

Handsome Lake

organized the combat liquor trade

Phoebe Palmer

founder of the first settlement house in New York City called the Five Points Mission

Townsend Harris

an American merchant and diplomat best known for being the first United States Consul General to Japan

Adoniram Judson

one of the first missionaries to be dispatched by the American Board who pioneered the missionary effort in Burma, completed a Burmese translation of the Bible, and is remembered as the Father of American Missions

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unitarian minster and famous essayist who developed American transcendentalism

Caesar Mclemore

Circuit Rider; a slave; traveled throughout the South as a missionary to plantation workers

Second Great Awakening

national revival that began quietly in New England in the 1790s

American track society

non-profit, interdenominational Christian organization founded in 1825 with the purpose of publishing and distributing religious literature, primarily Christian tracts

Sequoya

Cherokee man who invented a written language for his people

Charles Finney

best-known evangelist of the Second Great Awakening

Richard Allen

preacher who influenced the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

Francis Asbury

preacher whom John Wesley sent to American to train circuit riders to preach using simple illustrations of biblical truths

James McGready

Presbyterian preacher from North Carolina who pioneers the camp-meeting revival

circuit riders

evangelists who rode regular routes on horseback, preaching at various points along the way