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 that was 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; who wrote 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 - 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, Romantic era literature emphasized man's aspirations, emotions, individuality, personal experiences, and imaginations

Schoolroom or Fireside Poets - The poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell - emphasized 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