APUSH Antebellum

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author Uncle Tom’s Cabin which contributed to the beginning of the Civil War

Robert Fulton

Invented the steamboat

Joseph Smith

Founder of the Mormon Church

Henry David Thoreau

He lived at Walden Pond and wrote the essay Civil Disobedience

Brigham Young

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Author of the Scarlet Letter

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

She insisted on leaving obey out of her marriage vows and was proponent of women’s suffrage

Samuel Morse

Invented Morse Code, there was no longer a need for the Pony Express

Eli Whitney

Invented interchangeable parts for factory production

Samuel Slater

Father of the American factory system

Horace Mann

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

James Fenimore Cooper

Wrot ehte last of the MOhicans

Walt Whitman

His most famous book of poems was LEaves of Grass

Catherine Beecher

A proponent of the CUlt of Domesticity, who encouraged her sisters to enter the teaching profession

Herman Melville

Wrote the Moby Dick

Peter Cartwright

Best known Methodist preacher who was a traveling minister

John J. Audubon

The naturalist who wrote and illustrated the book Birds of America

Charles Finney

He devised the “anxious bench” where repentant sinners could sit in full view of the congregation

Louisa May Alcott

The author of Little Women

American Colonization Society

Founded the purpose of transporting blacks back to Africa

William Lloyd Garrison

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

Dorothea Dix

Worked to overhaul the treatment of the mentally insane

Susan B. Anthony

She fought for women’s suffrage with Elizabeth Stanton

Frederick Douglass

American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesment