Writers/ Authors
was an American short story writer
Who is Washington Irving ?
Was a runaway slave who became a leader of the abolitionist and women's movements; best- known for her " Ain't I a Woman ? " Speech
Who is Sojourner Truth ?
Was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement
Who is Joseph Smith ?
Was an English- born American painter known for his landscape and history paintings. He is also regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School
Who is Thomas Cole ?
Was an African- American abolitionist, writer and anti- slavery activist. Though his father was a salve, his mother was free so therefore he was free
Who is David Walker ?
was an American essayist/ poet
Who is Henry David Thoreau ?
Was a social reformer who campaigned for women's rights, the temperance, and was a abolitionist. She also helped form the National Women Suffrage Association
Who is Susan B. Anthony ?
Was a religious fervor that swept the nation. It had an effect on moral movements such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and moral reasoning against slavery
What is the 2nd Great Awakening ?
Was an American landscape painter. He was also a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters.
Who is Frederick Church ?
Was an American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He also founded the abolitionist newspaper, " The North Star. "
Who is Frederick Douglass ?
Was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century
Who is James Fenimore Cooper ?
Was an American women's rights and temperance advocate
Who is Amelia Bloomer ?
Was a perfectionist religious communal society founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848
What is the Oneida Community ?
A series of graded primers for grade levels 1-6. They were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid- 19th century to the mid- 20th century
What are McGuffey Readers ?
A former slave who escaped to freedom, this woman risked her freedom 19 times by returning to the South to help more than 300 slaves escape
Who is Harriet Tubman ?
was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne ?
Organized the first convention on women's rights held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. She also Co- founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton ?
A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, a religion founded in the US in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr.
What are Mormons ?
American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism
What is the Hudson River School ?
Was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. He was a editor of radical abolitionist newspaper " The Liberator ", and was one of the founders of the American Anti- Slavery Society
Who William Lloyd Garrison ?
was an American essayist, philosopher and poet who led the transcendentalist movement
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson ?
Quaker sisters from a slave holding family in South Carolina who came north and became active in the abolitionist movement
Who are the Grimke Sisters ?
Was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, a politician, and a settler in the Western United States
Who is Brigham Young ?
An educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education
Who is Horace Mann ?
Was a U.S. Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer.
Who is Lucretia Mott ?