This southern poet wrote bleak poems such as the Raven and the Telltale heart.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
100
This abolitionist and feminist wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and was deemed by Lincoln as ‘the little lady who started the civil war’
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100
This man founded Mormonism, and said he found gold tablets from the Lord in modern-day New York
Who is Joseph Smith?
100
This group of amazing painters in the Hudson Valley painted many great American landscapes
What is the Hudson River School?
200
This famous Transcendentalist wrote Walden and went to live alone in the woods
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
200
This man was perhaps the greatest African-American abolitionist who was born as a slave and escaped to later buy his freedom
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
This utopist and Original resident of Brook Farm wrote “Blithedale Romance” which told of the failures of Brook Farm
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
200
This movement was based upon the desire to transcend above the human body and allow the soul to connect with the universe
What is Transcendentalism?
300
This poet published his volume of work, Leaves of grass
Who is Walt Whitman?
300
This abolitionist created his own newspaper, the Liberator, and suggested that opponents of slavery view it from the slave’s point of view rather than the master’s
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
300
This reformer spoke out for the reform of the education system
Who is Horace Mann?
300
This community created by mother Ann Lee would “shake” themselves free of sin while changing and had less binding gender roles than the rest of society
Who are Shakers?
400
This New Yorker ran away to sail for years before coming back home to write Moby Dick
Who is Herman Melville?
400
These (five) feminists helped organize the Seneca Falls convention
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Fuller, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott?
400
This great American writer wrote novels which beautifully described the American Wilderness such as “The Last of the Mohicans”
Who is James Fenimore Cooper?
400
This convention was created by Feminist women who were tired of being told they had less rights than men
What is Seneca Falls?
500
This transcendentalist writer was in influential writer and intellectual of his time and wrote a famous essay titled “Nature”
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
500
These abolitionist-feminist sisters denied that women lacked the ability to speak up about abolitionism
Who are Sarah and Angelina Grimké?
500
This evangelistic Presbyterian minister believed traditional Calvinist doctrines of predestination and individual human helplessness were both obsolete and destructive
Who is Charles Grandison Finney?
500
This ship of Cuban slaves was freed because foreign slave trade was illegal