3497461414 | Alexis Tocqueville | Studied US prison systems, believed America was in constant state of change. Europe could learn from America as it is the more equal place for men on earth. Doesn't matter wear your from or how much money, wealth could be achieved by all. | 0 | |
3497499381 | Charles Finney | Most successful revivalist. Very enthusiastic as he recruted thousands of followers from upstate New York (burn over county). Put empathisis on enthusiasm and emotion. | 1 | |
3497530301 | Mother Ann Lee | (Shaker) Britain woman who believed she was a reancarnated version of Jesus. Believed in no sex because the world is ending soon. Believed you release sins threw dancing threw the finger tips as you collapse. | 2 | |
3497559776 | Joseph Smith | (First Mormon) Published books off gold plates he found in the ground in palmyra Ny. Believed he was a prophet who received messages directly from God. Stressed saintliness and salvation. Leaders were white males. Fucosed on community. Moved to Ohio then Missouri then Illinois. | 3 | |
3497626081 | Brigham Young | Took over moron church as new leader. Leads thousands of mormons into Utah through the trek mountains. His discipline and work ethic made the Mormons a thriving community. | 4 | |
3497659480 | William Miller | Located in upstate New York, this man predicted when the world was goning to end twice. Was wrong both times. Had very enthusiastic followers. | 5 | |
3497679774 | Fox Sisters | Believed they could communicate with the dead. Got people excited, but turned out to be a hoax. | 6 | |
3497692573 | Robert Owen | This man tried create a prosperous self-sufficient community in New Harmony Indiana. Ended up failing do to people being greedy over common owener ship and cheap land available. | 7 | |
3497727308 | John Humphrey Noyes | This man set up very successful communities in New York and Ohio that were based off business amd sex. Perfection is reached throw cooperation not compitition. Believed in controlled sex and no one should fall in love. Everyone kids is everyone kid. Had sexual rotation and could only have kids if cummunity said you could. | 8 | |
3497781652 | Fanny Wright | Female reformer who set up farms where slaves could work to pay off debt to owner. Believed in free love amd sexual equality. | 9 | |
3497806667 | George Ripely | A transcendentalist philosopher who believed in a emotional connection with God and nature. Write book farm utopian society. | 10 | |
3497830141 | Henry David Thoreau | ( trans) Disliked and feared industrial revolution, and restrictions on individuality. Trusted nature, and encourage non violent resistance of government policies. | 11 | |
3497856546 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | (Trans) Trusted America not Europe ideas. Favored induviuality over group, and loved nature. A poet and avocation self reliance. | 12 | |
3497888764 | Walt Whitman | (Trans)Got inspection fro, opera and theater. Wrote leaves of grass and book of what he thought America was | 13 | |
3497919398 | Washington Irving | One of first to break away from European art to America art. Wrote legend of sleepy hallow. | 14 | |
3497945231 | James Fennimore Cooper | Frontiers as a Nobel figure, showed west had opportunity and freedom too. Wrote last of the Mohicans and pioneers and the spy. | 15 | |
3497963378 | Edgar Allen Poe | Wrote about human reflection, and humans darker side. Wrote the murders of the rue morgue and the Raven. | 16 | |
3497981286 | Herman Melville | Located in Troy New York, he focused on human quest to tame nature. Wrote MOOBY DICK | 17 | |
3497994223 | Nathaniel Hawthorn | Focused on struggles of the individual with sin guilt and pride. Wrote the Scarlet letter, and house of seven gables. | 18 | |
3498022498 | Ben West | One of the first artist to translate to American Art. Painted more mystical such as the battle of Quebec and death of pale horse. | 19 | |
3498040025 | John Singleton Copley | Painted Watson and the shark. Focused on how volnable man is to nature. | 20 | |
3498055490 | John Trumbull | Student of Ben West , sketches of American history and painted for US capital rotunda. | 21 | |
3498079060 | Gilbert Stuart | Famous for painting George Washington and John Adams and the skater. Focused on the common ordinary life things. | 22 | |
3498094029 | Thomas Cole | Focused on the natural beauty of nature. Opened up the Hudson River School of Painting. | 23 | |
3498117968 | Dorothea Dix | Helped the mentally ill to get them into isilums and out of jails. Traveled to every state to get this done. | 24 | |
3498140220 | Horace Mann | Increased access to public schools and changed the curriculum. Had schools put American ideas in and European out. Had this changed in every state. | 25 | |
3498175451 | Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe | Set up schools for the blind and used Braille. | 26 | |
3498184782 | Thomas Gallaudet | Created the first school for deaf | 27 | |
3498202468 | Gage Rule | Tries to end racist censorship in south | 28 | |
3498212597 | William Lloyd Garrison | "The liberator" wanted to ban slavery immediately | 29 | |
3498226300 | Theodore Weld | Intense religious beliefs about banning slavery, wanted to convert people | 30 | |
3498243288 | Harriet Tubman | Underground Railroad | 31 | |
3498248280 | Harriet Beecher | Wrote Uncle Tom cabin which exploited the horrors of slavery. Very popular book which turned many people aggainst slavery. | 32 | |
3498273290 | Elijah Lovejoy | Published the liberator, murdered by a mob. | 33 | |
3498297262 | Fredrick Douglas | Narrator of the life of Fredrick Douglas and North Star. Spread word that Africans could and are more than just slaves. They could work and be useful in society. | 34 | |
3498366854 | John Brown | Most radical reformer at the time. Tried to start slave rebellions on in Virginia. Ended up getting captured and tried for treason and excucuted. | 35 |
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