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| 7458088222 | Dorothea Dix | A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill, beginning in the 1820's, she was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. | 0 | |
| 7458088223 | Lucretia Mott | A Quaker who attended an anti-slavery convention in 1840 and her party of women was not recognized. She helped organize the first women's right convention in New York in 1848 | 1 | |
| 7458088224 | James Fenimore Cooper | American novelist who is best remembered for his novels of frontier life, such as The Last of the Mohicans (1826). | 2 | |
| 7458088225 | Noah Webster | American writer who wrote textbooks to help the advancement of education; wrote a dictionary which helped standardize the American language. | 3 | |
| 7458088226 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | (1815-1902) A suffragette who helped to organize the first convention on women's rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Issued the Declaration of Sentiments which declared men and women to be equal and demanded the right to vote for women. | 4 | |
| 7458088227 | Edgar Allan Poe | American writer known especially for his macabre poems, such as "The Raven" (1845), and short stories, including "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839). | 5 | |
| 7458088228 | Susan B. Anthony | Social reformer who campaigned for womens' rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association | 6 | |
| 7458088229 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. | 7 | |
| 7458088230 | Robert Owen | British cotton manufacturer believed that humans would reveal their true natural goodness if they lived in a cooperative environment. Tested his theories New Harmony, but failed | 8 | |
| 7458088231 | Henry David Thoreau | American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War. | 9 | |
| 7458088232 | Charles G. Finney | This Presbyterian minister appealed to his audience's sense of emotion rather than their reason. His "fire and brimstone" sermons became commonplace in upstate New York, where listeners were instilled with the fear of Satan and an eternity in Hell. | 10 | |
| 7458088233 | Joseph Smith | Founded Mormonism in New York in 1830 with the guidance of an angel. 1843, Smith's announcement that God sanctioned polygamy split the Mormons and let to an uprising against Mormons in 1844; translated the Book of Mormon and died a martyr. | 11 | |
| 7458088234 | Brigham Young | A Mormon leader who urged the Mormons to move farther west. They settled at the edge of the lonely desert near the Great Salt Lake. | 12 | |
| 7458150807 | Horace Mann | Campaigned for better schools, longer school terms, higher pay for teachers and an enlarged curriculum. | 13 | |
| 7458181640 | Washington Irving | An American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book | 14 | |
| 7458264426 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | He wrote The Scarlet Letter in 1850. This was his masterpiece about a woman who commits adultery in a Puritan village. | 15 | |
| 7458533983 | Herman Melville | An American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known work was his whaling novel Moby-Dick. | 16 | |
| 7458556210 | Walt Whitman | An American poet whose most famous work was his collection of poems entitled Leaves of Grass | 17 |
