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Pre-Civil War Reformers 1820 - 1860. Charles Grandison Finney. Famous Preacher Figure in the Second Great Awakening & Revival Movement. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Mormon leaders Led followers west to escape persecution Settled near Great Salt Lake Utah. Dorothea Dix.
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Pre-Civil War Reformers 1820 - 1860
Charles Grandison Finney • Famous Preacher • Figure in the Second Great Awakening & Revival Movement
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young • Mormon leaders • Led followers west to escape persecution • Settled near Great Salt Lake Utah
Dorothea Dix • Prison reformer • Promoted hospitals for mentally ill (rather than using prisons)
Horace Mann • Educational reformer • promoted public schools and teacher training programs
Reverend Lyman Beecher • Leader in the Temperance Movement • Little or no use of alcohol
Emily Dickinson • Poetry reflects loneliness • Not publicly recognized during her lifetime
William Lloyd Garrison • White abolitionist leader • Published “The Liberator”
Frederick Douglass • Black abolitionist leader • Published “The North Star”
Sojourner Truth • Former slave • Abolitionist and Women’s Rights activist
Nat Turner • Led unsuccessful slave revolt in 1831 • Strengthened Southern support to defend slavery
Harriet Tubman • Former slave • Famous conductor in Underground Railroad • Abolitionist public speaker
Harriet Beecher Stowe • wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Book’s impact was one of the causes of the Civil War
Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Leader at Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 • Co-wrote “The Declaration of Sentiments”
Lucretia Mott • Leader at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 • Co-wrote “The Declaration of Sentiments”
Elizabeth Blackwell • 1st female doctor in United States • Opened her own clinic
Margaret Fuller • Advocated that women could have opinions outside the Cult of Domesticity • Advocated for birth control
Samuel F.B. Morse • Inventor of telegraph and Morse Code • Improved communication and commerce
Elias Howe and I.M. Singer • Invented sewing machine with foot treadle • Reduced time needed to make shoes and clothes
John Deere • Invented steel plow • Reduced time needed to plant • Opened up more land for farming
Cyrus McCormick • Invented mechanical reaper • Reduced time required for harvest • Made larger farms possible
Robert Fulton • Advanced the design of the steamboat • Led to improvements in transportation and commerce
Charles Goodyear • Invented vulcanized rubber • Does not freeze or melt at extreme temperatures
James Fenimore Cooper • First major American novelist • Wrote about frontier life/adventures • The Last of the Mohicans
Washington Irving • Father of the American short story • “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Edger Allen Poe • Father of American Mystery writers • Known for horror stories • “The Tell Tale Heart”
Nathaniel Hawthorne • American author • Wrote “The Scarlett Letter”
Herman Melville • American author famous for novels of the sea • Wrote Moby Dick
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • American poet • Known for Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes • Wrote “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Chief spokesperson for Transcendentalism (reaction against the scientific rationalism) • wrote Walden Pond
Peter Cooper • 1st American Steam locomotive (1830)
Henry David Thoreau • Protested the Mexican War by refusing to pay his taxes • Wrote Duty of Civil Disobedience • "That government is best which governs least"
Walt Whitman • Father of “free verse” in poetry • Wrote openly about death, sexuality, and equality of races • Famous work: Leaves of Grass
John James Audubon • -published Birds of America, an art book showing North American birds • Promoted the preservation of nature Photo of White Gyrfalcons
George Catlin • Documented tribal life of Native Americans White Cloud, Chief of the Iowas