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| 1080940276 | Peter Cartwright | Traveling frontier preacher who converted thousands of people. | 0 | |
| 1080940277 | Charles Grandison Finney | Greatest revivalist preacher. Led massive revivals. Denounces alcohol & slavery. | 1 | |
| 1080940278 | Joseph Smith | Established the Mormon faith. | 2 | |
| 1080940281 | Brigham Young | When Joseph Smith died, Young led the Mormons from persecution to Utah. Under his control the community became a prospering frontier theocracy & cooperative commonwealth. | 3 | |
| 1080940282 | Horace Mann | Campaigned for more and better schoolhouses, longer school terms, higher pay for teachers, & an expanded curriculum. | 4 | |
| 1080940283 | Noah Webster | Improved textbooks. Lessons prompted patriotism. Developed dictionary that helped to standardize the English language in America. | 5 | |
| 1080940284 | William H. McGuffey | Teacher & preacher. Wrote popular lessons for schools that included themes of morality, patriotism, & idealism. | 6 | |
| 1080940285 | Emma Willard | Established Troy (NY) female seminary, caused women's schools at the secondary level. | 7 | |
| 1081083284 | Mary Lyon | Established Mount Holyoke Seminary. | 8 | |
| 1081083285 | Dorothea Dix | Helped to improve conditions for the mentally ill & convinced others that they were not willfully perverse. | 9 | |
| 1081083286 | William Ladd | Led the American Peace Society | 10 | |
| 1081083287 | T. S. Arthur | Wrote a popular anti-alcohol novel titled, "Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There". | 11 | |
| 1081083288 | Neal S. Dow | Thought alcohol should be removed by legislation. Supported Maine Law of 1851 which banned manufacture & sale of liquor in Maine. Many states followed Maine's example. | 12 | |
| 1081083289 | Lucretia Mott | Abolitionist & Women's rights activist. Mott & Stanton organized the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY. | 13 | |
| 1081083290 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Helped to organize the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY. Advocated suffrage for women. Read a Declaration of Sentiments that declared all men & women were created equal. | 14 | |
| 1081083291 | Susan B. Anthony | Lecturer for women's rights. Other advocates for women's rights called Suzy Bs. | 15 | |
| 1081083292 | Elizabeth Blackwell | First female graduate of a medical college. | 16 | |
| 1081083293 | Margaret Fuller | Edited transcendentalist journal, "The Dial". Took part in a struggle to bring unity & republican government to Italy. | 17 | |
| 1081083294 | Grimke Sisters | Championed antislavery. | 18 | |
| 1081179792 | Lucy Stone | Retained her maiden name after marriage. "Lucy Stoners" follow her example. | 19 | |
| 1081179793 | Amelia Bloomer | Revolted against female attire by wearing "bloomers". | 20 | |
| 1081179794 | Seneca Falls, NY, Women's Rights Convention, (1848) | Launched the modern women's rights movement. | 21 | |
| 1081179795 | Robert Owen | Founded communal society in New Harmony, Indiana for human betterment but commune failed. | 22 | |
| 1081179796 | Brook Farm | Started by those committed to Transcendentalism. Community collapsed in debt. Inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, "The Blithedale Romance". | 23 | |
| 1081179797 | Oneida Community | Lasted 30 years. Produced superior steel & silver plating. Practiced free love, birth control, & selection of parents to promote superior offspring. | 24 | |
| 1081179798 | John Humphrey Noyes | Founded the Oneida community | 25 | |
| 1081179799 | Shakers | Led by Mother Ann Lee. Prohibited marriage & sexual relations. | 26 | |
| 1081179800 | Thomas Jefferson | Invented a new type of plow, a master architect, founded University of Virginia. | 27 | |
| 1081179801 | Nathaniel Bowditch | Mathematician. Made writings on practical navigation. | 28 | |
| 1081179802 | Matthew F. Maury | Oceanographer. Wrote on ocean winds & currents. | 29 | |
| 1081179803 | Benjamin Silliman | Most influential American scientist of the first half of the 19th c. Pioneer chemist & geologist. Taught & wrote at Yale. | 30 | |
| 1081179804 | Louis Agassiz | Professor at Harvard. Student of Biology. Insisted on original research, & hated memory work. | 31 | |
| 1081179805 | Asa Gray | Professor at Harvard. Made important gains in botany. Textbooks set new standards for clarity & interest. | 32 | |
| 1081179806 | John J. Audubon | Painted wild fowl. Illustrated "Birds of America" and "Passenger Pigeons". Audubon Society for the protection of birds was named for him. | 33 | |
| 1081179807 | Gilbert Stuart | Artist who painted many portraits of an idealized George Washington. | 34 | |
| 1081179808 | Charles Willson Peale | Artist who painted many portraits of George Washington. | 35 | |
| 1081179809 | John Trumbull | Artist who pained revolutionary war scenes. | 36 | |
| 1081179810 | Hudson River School | Style of painting that excelled in romantic mirroring of local landscapes. | 37 | |
| 1081179811 | Louis Daguerre | Perfected the Daguerreotype (Photograph). Gave competition to painters. | 38 | |
| 1081179812 | Stephen C. Foster | Created most famous black songs. Published "Old folks at home". Made valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. | 39 | |
| 1081179813 | Washington Irving | The first American to win international recognition as a literary figure. Published Knickerbocker's History of New York, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle, & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Used English & American themes. Tried to interpret Europe to America & America to Europe. | 40 | |
| 1081179814 | James Fenimore Cooper | The first American novelist to gain world fame & to make New World themes respectable. Wrote The Spy, The Leatherstocking Tales, & The Last of the Mohicans. | 41 | |
| 1081179815 | William Cullen Bryant | Wrote Thanatopsis, one of the first high quality poems produced in the U.S. Edited the New York Evening Post, set model for journalism. | 42 | |
| 1081179816 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Poet, philosopher, Transcendentalist, & Lyceum lecturer. Urged American writers to give up European traditions. Stressed self-reliance, self-improvement, self-confidence, optimism, & freedom. Ideals reflected those of expanding America. | 43 | |
| 1081190624 | Henry David Thoreau | Poet, mystic, abolitionist, Transcendentalist, & nonconformist. Refused to pay MA poll tax. Wrote Walden: Or Life in the Woods. Believed he should reduce bodily wants to gain time in pursuit of truth. Wrote essay called On the Duty of Civil Disobedience that influenced Ghandi & MLK Jr. | 44 | |
| 1081190625 | Walt Whitman | Poet that wrote Leaves of Grass. | 45 | |
| 1081190626 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | One of the most popular poets ever produced in America. Wrote Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, & The Courtship of Miles Standish. | 46 | |
| 1081190627 | John Greenleaf Whittier | Poet & abolitionist who wrote against slavery. | 47 | |
| 1081190628 | James Russell Lowell | One of America's best poets. Known for political satire in his "Biglow papers", where he condemned the alleged slavery expansion designs of the Polk administration. | 48 | |
| 1081216444 | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Taught anatomy at Harvard. Wrote poem called The Last Leaf, meaning the last white indian at the Boston Tea Party, this referred to himself. | 49 | |
| 1081216445 | Louisa May Alcott | Wrote the novel Little Women. | 50 | |
| 1081216446 | Emily Dickinson | Famous poet who wrote themes of love, death, nature, & immortality. | 51 | |
| 1081216447 | William Gilmore Simms | Most noteworthy literary figure produced by the South before the Civil War. Wrote themes that dealt with the Southern frontier & revolutionary war. | 52 | |
| 1081216448 | Edgar Allan Poe | Famous poet who wrote The Raven, The Gold Bug, The Fall of the House of Usher, & short horror stories. Helped to create the modern crime novel. Morbid, pessimistic themes contrasted with optimistic American culture. | 53 | |
| 1081226973 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Wrote The Scarlet Letter & The Marble Faun. | 54 | |
| 1081226974 | Herman Melville | Wrote Moby Dick. | 55 | |
| 1081226975 | George Bancroft | Historian & Secretary of the Navy. Helped to found the Naval academy at Annapolis. Published a superpatriotic history of America to 1789. | 56 | |
| 1081226976 | William H. Prescott | Historian who published classic accounts of the conquests of Mexico & Peru. | 57 | |
| 1081226977 | Francis Parkman | Historian who wrote volumes about the struggle between France & Britain for mastery of North America. | 58 |
