22788987 | Dorothea Dix | Quietly Determined reformer who substantially improved conditions for the mentally ill | |
22788988 | Brigham Young | The Mormon Moses who led persecuted latter day saints to their promised land in Utah | |
22788989 | Elizabeth Stanton | leading feminist who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 and pushed for women's suffrage | |
22788990 | Susan B. Anthony and Lucrieta Mott | Quaker Women's Rights advocates who also strongly supported abolition of slavery | |
22788991 | Emily Dickinson | Reclusive New England poet who wrote about love death and immortality | |
22788992 | Charles Finney | influential evangelical revivalist of the Second Great Awakening | |
22788993 | Robert Owen | Idealistic Scottish industrialist whose attempt at communal utopia failed | |
22788994 | Oneida colony | radical New York commune that practiced complex marriage and eugenic birth control | |
22788995 | Shakers | Long lived early American religious sect that attracted thousands of members to its celibate communities | |
22788996 | Louisa May Alcott | Novelist whose tales of family life helped economically support her own struggling transcendentalist family | |
22788997 | James Fennimore Cooper | Path breaking American Novelist who contrasted the natural person of the forest with the values of modern civilization | |
22788998 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Second rate poet and philosopher, promoter of transcendentalist ideals and American culture and Scholarship | |
22788999 | Walt Whitman | Bold unconventional poet who celebrated American democracy | |
22789000 | Edgar Allen Poe | Eccentric Southern born genius whose tales of mystery suffering and the supernatural departed from general American literary trends | |
22789001 | Herman Melville | New York Writer whose romantic sea tales were more popular than his dark literary masterpiece | |
22789002 | Brook Farm | Intellectual commune in Massachusetts based on "plain living and high thinking" | |
22789003 | Knickerbockers | New York Literary Movement-Irving, Cooper, Bryant | |
22789004 | Seneca Falls | Women's rights convention 1848 NY made appeal based on Dec. Of Ind | |
22789005 | Methodists Baptists | religions that benefited most from 2nd G.A. | |
22789006 | Deism | liberal religious belief held by many founding fathers that stressed rationalism and moral behavior | |
22789007 | Steamboat | fultons invention that made river transport a two way affair. Clermont | |
22789008 | Limited Liability | Principle that permitted individual investors to risk no more capital in a business venture than their own share of a corporation's stock | |
22789009 | Samuel Slater | Immigrant mechanic who started American Industrialization by setting up his cotton spinning factory 1791 | |
22789010 | Eli Whitney | yankee mechanical genius who revolutionized cotton production and created interchangeable parts. | |
22789011 | Elias Howe | Inventor of a machine that revolutionized the ready made clothing industry | |
22789012 | Samuel Morse | Painter turned inventor who devolved the first reliable long distance instance communication | |
22789013 | Know-Nothings | agitator against immigrants and Roman Catholics | |
22789014 | Commonwealth v. hunt | Declared labor unions legal | |
22789015 | Cyrus McCormick | Inventor of the Mechanical Reaper that transformed grain growing into a business | |
22789016 | Robert Fulton | Developer of a folly that made rivers two way streams of transportation | |
22789017 | Cyrus Field | Wealthy NY manufacturer who laid the first transatlantic cable in 1858 | |
22789018 | Molly Maguires | Radical secret Irish Labor union of the 60's and 70's | |
22789019 | DeWitt Clinton | NY governor who built Erie Canal | |
22789106 | Clipper ships | short lived American boats fast but small | |
22789107 | Tramp Steamers | British ships larger and more economically productive than clipper ships |
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