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22788987Dorothea DixQuietly Determined reformer who substantially improved conditions for the mentally ill
22788988Brigham YoungThe Mormon Moses who led persecuted latter day saints to their promised land in Utah
22788989Elizabeth Stantonleading feminist who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 and pushed for women's suffrage
22788990Susan B. Anthony and Lucrieta MottQuaker Women's Rights advocates who also strongly supported abolition of slavery
22788991Emily DickinsonReclusive New England poet who wrote about love death and immortality
22788992Charles Finneyinfluential evangelical revivalist of the Second Great Awakening
22788993Robert OwenIdealistic Scottish industrialist whose attempt at communal utopia failed
22788994Oneida colonyradical New York commune that practiced complex marriage and eugenic birth control
22788995ShakersLong lived early American religious sect that attracted thousands of members to its celibate communities
22788996Louisa May AlcottNovelist whose tales of family life helped economically support her own struggling transcendentalist family
22788997James Fennimore CooperPath breaking American Novelist who contrasted the natural person of the forest with the values of modern civilization
22788998Ralph Waldo EmersonSecond rate poet and philosopher, promoter of transcendentalist ideals and American culture and Scholarship
22788999Walt WhitmanBold unconventional poet who celebrated American democracy
22789000Edgar Allen PoeEccentric Southern born genius whose tales of mystery suffering and the supernatural departed from general American literary trends
22789001Herman MelvilleNew York Writer whose romantic sea tales were more popular than his dark literary masterpiece
22789002Brook FarmIntellectual commune in Massachusetts based on "plain living and high thinking"
22789003KnickerbockersNew York Literary Movement-Irving, Cooper, Bryant
22789004Seneca FallsWomen's rights convention 1848 NY made appeal based on Dec. Of Ind
22789005Methodists Baptistsreligions that benefited most from 2nd G.A.
22789006Deismliberal religious belief held by many founding fathers that stressed rationalism and moral behavior
22789007Steamboatfultons invention that made river transport a two way affair. Clermont
22789008Limited LiabilityPrinciple that permitted individual investors to risk no more capital in a business venture than their own share of a corporation's stock
22789009Samuel SlaterImmigrant mechanic who started American Industrialization by setting up his cotton spinning factory 1791
22789010Eli Whitneyyankee mechanical genius who revolutionized cotton production and created interchangeable parts.
22789011Elias HoweInventor of a machine that revolutionized the ready made clothing industry
22789012Samuel MorsePainter turned inventor who devolved the first reliable long distance instance communication
22789013Know-Nothingsagitator against immigrants and Roman Catholics
22789014Commonwealth v. huntDeclared labor unions legal
22789015Cyrus McCormickInventor of the Mechanical Reaper that transformed grain growing into a business
22789016Robert FultonDeveloper of a folly that made rivers two way streams of transportation
22789017Cyrus FieldWealthy NY manufacturer who laid the first transatlantic cable in 1858
22789018Molly MaguiresRadical secret Irish Labor union of the 60's and 70's
22789019DeWitt ClintonNY governor who built Erie Canal
22789106Clipper shipsshort lived American boats fast but small
22789107Tramp SteamersBritish ships larger and more economically productive than clipper ships

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