APUSH 5

Catherine Beecher

• founded the Hartford female seminary

• Promoted equal access to education

• Women were able to become teachers

Sarah Bagley

• Created the Female Labor Reform System

Margaret Fuller

• Believes women see themselves as what they need to be and not who they want to be

• Wrote women in the nineteenth century

  • women spend their whole lives listening to men

Elizabeth Blackwell

• Famous female physician

Stephen A. Douglass

• Senator of Illinois that aided railroads and granted federal laws

Sarah Hale

• Developed domestic topics becoming important

• wrote the Godey’s Lady Book

Sir Walter Scott

• Wrote daring/romantic adventures and historical novels

Emma Willard

• Founder of the Troy Female Seminary

  • first female school for young girls

David Walker

• Free African American

• Wrote a pamphlet directed towards other african americans that express the idea that slaves should make a change and do something before they can’t anymore

James Fenimore Cooper

• 30 Novels created

• Loves nature and feared what expansion would do to it

Horace Greeley

• Created the Tribune in New York

Richard Hoe

• Invented the Steam Cylinder

John Deere

• Steel Plows

Cyrus McCormicky

• Automatic Reaper

James G. Birney

• Candidate for the Liberty Party (Kentucky leader)

Walt Whitman

• Created the Long Islander

• Liberation of individual

Horace Mann

• created the education system