History. Chapter 11 Test

Noah Webster

Taught millions to read and not one to sin.

William McGuffey

Remembered for his reading textbooks.

Josiah Holbrook

Founded the Lyceum Movement.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Part of the Schoolroom poets; only American poet honored in England's Westminster Abbey.

James Russell Lowell

Distinguished himself through his powerful patriotic verse.

Washington Irving

Wrote many exciting tales of Dutch settlers along the Hudson River.

James Fenimore Cooper

America's greatest novelist; authored the Leatherstocking Tales.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wrote The Scarlet Letter.

Stephen Foster

Best known American composer.

Lowell Mason

Continued the tradition of the 'singing school'.

Charles Wilson Peale

Helped found the Academy of Fine Arts.

Eli Whitney

Invented the first cotton gin.

University of North Carolina

The first state university to begin operating.

Oberlin College

Where Charles G Finny pioneered higher education for blacks.

Wesleyan College

Became the first college to open its doors to women.

Traditional education

Passes the accumulated knowledge of the past to the present generation.

Blue-backed speller

An American spelling book.

McGuffey’s Readers

Most widely used and distributed series of school books in America.

Romantic era

The first half of the 19th century emphasizing man's aspirations, emotions, individuality, and imaginations.

Schoolroom or Fireside Poets

Poetry by Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, and Lowell emphasizing family values and patriotism.

Hudson River School

Known for landscape paintings of scenes along the Hudson River.

Plantation

Used slave labor to produce cash crops.