A-Push Antebellum People

A-PUSH

Horace Mann

He campaigned for better schools, higher teacher pay, and longer school terms.

Eli Whitney

Invented interchangeable parts which streamlined factory production.

Robert Fulton

Invented the steamboat.

Samuel Morse

With his invention, there was no longer a need for the Pony Express.

James Fenimore Cooper

Wrote The Last of the Mohicans.

Joseph Smith

The founder of the Mormon church.

Samuel Slater

Father of the American factory system.

Susan B. Anthony

She fought for women's suffrage with Elizabeth Stanton.

Peter Cartwright

The best known Methodist preacher who was a traveling minister.

Charles Finney

He devised the "anxious bench" where repentant sinners could sit in full view of the congregation.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The author of The Scarlet Letter.

Brigham Young

The person that lead a persecuted religious group into the untamed frontier of Utah.

Dorothea Dix

Worked to overhaul the treatment of the mentally insane.

Herman Melville

He wrote Moby Dick.

Catherine Beecher

A proponent of the Cult of Domesticity who encouraged her sisters to enter the teaching profession.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

She insisted on leaving "obey" out of her marriage vows and was a proponent of woman's suffrage.

John J. Audubon

The naturalist who wrote and illustrated the book Birds of America.

Henry David Thoreau

He lived at Walden Pond and wrote the essay "Civil Disobedience".

Louisa May Alcott

The author of Little Women.

Walt Whitman

His most famous book of poems was Leaves of Grass.

William Lloyd Garrison

He published the newspaper called The Liberator and was a militant abolitionist.

American Colonization Society

Founded for the purpose of transporting blacks back to Africa.

Frederick Douglass

American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which contributed to the beginning of the Civil War.