Market revolution - people

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A women's rights reformer. She was not allowed to speak at an antislavery convention, and in response organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848

William Llyod Garrison

Advocated the immediate emancipation of slaves without compensation to their owners. He was also the writer of the “Liberator”.

Frederick Douglass

(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer.Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.

Lucretia Mott

Early feminist who advocated for women's rights and against slavery. Co-organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.

Dorthea Dix

Tireless reformer, who worked mightily to improve the treatment of the mentally ill. Appointed superintendant of women nurses for the Union forces.

Transcendentalists

Followers of a belief which that knowledge transcends instead of coming by reason. They questioned organized religion and economic practices that took away an individual's self worth. They stressed self-reliance, self- culture, self-discipline and promoted an array of humanitarian reforms.

Henry David Thoreau

American transcendentalist who questioned a government that supported slavery. He started the movement of civil-disobedience (On Civil Disobedience) when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War. He lived in a cabin on Walden Pond for two years and authored Walden.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author of Self-Reliance. American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom.

Margaret Fuller

Social reformer, leader in women's movement and a transcendentalist. Edited "The Dial" which was the publication of the transcendentalists. It appealed to people who wanted "perfect freedom" "progress in philosophy and theology and hope that the future will not always be as the past".

Horace Mann

Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education; "Father of the public school system"; a prominent proponent of public school reform, & set the standard for public schools throughout the nation; lengthened academic year; pro training & higher salaries to teachers

Rev. Charles Finney

One of the most important leaders of the Second Great Awakening. He was against alcohol and supported women's involvement including preaching.

Joseph Smith

Founded Mormonism in New York in 1830 with the guidance of an angel. 1843, Smith's announcement that God sanctioned polygamy split the Mormons and let to an uprising against Mormons in 1844; translated the Book of Mormon. He was murdered by an angry mob who was persecuting him for his beliefs.

Angelina Grimke

Daughter of a South Carolina slaveholder that were antislavery. Controversial because they spoke to audiences of both men and women at a time when it was thought indelicate to address male audiences. Womens' rights advocates as well.

Neal Dow

Father of Prohibition; he made a law in Maine that would disallow lethal alcohol to be sold.

Sylvester Graham

American clergyman whose advocacy of health regimen emphasizing temperance and vegetarianism found lasting expression in graham cracker

Maria Stewart

The first black woman to lecture on women's rights and slavery in public in the early 1830s in Boston. Encountered vocal opposition and violence. Garrison published some of her lecture's in The Liberator.

Edger Allen Poe

American writer/poet, wrote "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher", father of mystery and modern detective stories, relied heavily on emotion.

Washington Irving

American writer remembered for the stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

Herman Melville

American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby-Dick (1851), considered among the greatest American novels

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Originally a transcendentalist; later rejected them and became a leading anti-transcendentalist. He was a descendant of Puritan settlers. The Scarlet Letter shows the hypocrisy and insensitivity of New England puritans by showing their cruelty to a woman who has committed adultery and is forced to wear a scarlet "A".

The Declaration of Independence, John TrumbullZ