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| 247750265 | Dorothea Dix | assembled her reports on insanity and asylums from firsthand observations; petition of 1843 resulted in improved conditions and in a gain for the concept that the demented were not willfully perverse but mentally ill. | |
| 247750266 | Brigham Young | took control after Joseph Smith was murdered; in 1846-1847 he led his oppressed and despoiled Latter-Day Saints to Utah; made the community a prosperous frontier theocracy and cooperative commonwealth. | |
| 247750267 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | mother of seven who insisted on leaving "obey" out of her marriage ceremony and advocated suffrage for women. | |
| 247750268 | Lucretia Mott | sprightly Quaker whose ire had been aroused when she and her fellow female delegates to the London antislavery convention of 1840 were not recognized. | |
| 247750269 | Emily Dickinson | poet | |
| 247750270 | Charles Grandison Finney | greatest of revivalist preachers | |
| 247750271 | Robert Owen | started New Harmony, Indiana; quickly fell apart | |
| 247750272 | John Humphrey Noyes | ... | |
| 247750273 | May Lyon | ... | |
| 247750274 | Louisa May Alcott | wrote "Little Women" | |
| 247750275 | James Fennimore Cooper | wrote what might be considered the first of blockbuster American fiction in "Leatherstocking Tales." These stories told of Natty Bumppo, a frontiersman and his adventures, notably in The Last of the Mohicans. The setting was the wilderness of New York. | |
| 247750276 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | former Unitarian pastor turned writer and lyceum speaker. His most famous writing/speech was "Self Reliance" which stressed individualism. He also urged Americans to declare independence from Europe in terms of art, literature, thinking, etc. | |
| 247750277 | Walt Whitman | was a saucy poet who wrote "Leaves of Grass." He encouraged people to live their lives to the fullest and holler out a "barbaric yawp." | |
| 247750278 | Edgar Allan Poe | often credited with inventing the "psychological thriller." His poems and stories often dealt with the ghostly and the macabre. Well-known works are "The Raven," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and many others. | |
| 247750279 | Herman Melville | wrote "Moby Dick," the allegorical tale of good vs. evil. It follows the mad Captain Ahab's hell-bent quest to kill the white whale, Moby Dick. | |
| 247750280 | Sir Walter Scott | author of "Ivanhoe" and was very popular to Southerners. They liked the medieval world described in the novel and especially its code of chivalry with knights and damsels. In the Southern-elite mind, Southern society was rekindling medieval society with military-trained, bright, and dashing young Southern gentlemen and the gentile Southern belles. Though real in the elite Southern mind, this society was also myth. And even if it came close to being real, it was still built on the backs of slaves. | |
| 247750281 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin." | |
| 247750282 | Nat Turner | considered something of a prophet and led a revolt in Virginia. | |
| 247750283 | Liberia | ... | |
| 247750284 | Theodore Dwight Weld | inspired by Charles Grandison Finney's preaching and became a leading anti-slavery spokesman. | |
| 247750285 | Lewis Tappan | ... | |
| 247750286 | Lane Theological Seminary | headed by Lyman Beecher | |
| 247750287 | William Lloyd Garrison | published a radical abolitionist newspaper titled "The Liberator." It made its debut on New Year's Day, 1831, and forcefully shouted against slavery for the next 30 years. His famous battle cry was I WILL BE HEARD! Critics charged that he fanned the flames of anti-slavery, but offered no real solution. | |
| 247750288 | David Walker | wrote "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" urged military action to end slavery. | |
| 247750289 | Sojourner Truth | tireless spokeswoman for abolition and women's rights. | |
| 247750290 | Frederick Douglass | former slave who escaped to Massachusetts and became the cause's leading spokesman. | |
| 247750291 | John Quincy Adams | ... | |
| 247750292 | Elijah Lovejoy | offended Catholic women and saw his printing press destroyed four times then was murdered by a mob. |
