important figures from chapter fifteen in the 12th edition of The American Pageant for AP US History students
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| 103779038 | Peter Cartwright | Early American preacher; helped begin the Second Great Awakening | 0 | |
| 103779039 | Charles Grandison Finney | Evangelist; "America's foremost revivalist"; encouraged women to pray; opposed liquor and slavery | 1 | |
| 103779040 | William Miller | American Baptist preacher; Followers were called Millerites and later Adventists; Expected Christ to return to Earth on October 22, 1844 | 2 | |
| 103779041 | Joseph Smith | Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) | 3 | |
| 103779042 | Brigham Young | Second prophet of the Latter-Day Saints; let followers to Utah and created a theocracy | 4 | |
| 103779043 | Horace Mann | Humanitarion who advocated for public schools with better teachers, longer school terms, expanded curriculum, and higher pay for teachers; "Father of the American common school"; pushed for reforms for mental health institutions and end to slavery | 5 | |
| 103779044 | Noah Webster | "Schoolmaster of the Republic"; Lexicographer; Standardized the American language | 6 | |
| 103779045 | William H. McGuffy | McGuffy's Reader was the text for most schools from 1836-1900; contained religious messages | 7 | |
| 103779046 | Emma Willard | Women's rights; Founded first women's school of higher education (Troy Female Seminary) and offered new opportunities to women teachers | 8 | |
| 103779047 | Dorothea Dix | Activist for the insane-created first mental asylums | 9 | |
| 103779048 | Neal S. Dow | "Father of Prohibition"; Sponsored first prohibition law in Maine in 1857 | 10 | |
| 103779049 | Lucretia Mott | Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and advocate of women's rights; co-organized the Seneca Falls Convention | 11 | |
| 103779050 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | President of National Women's Suffrage Association from 1885-1890; drafted the Declaration of Sentiments; Co-organized Seneca Falls Convention | 12 | |
| 103779051 | Susan B. Anthony | Women's right's advocate; Founded National Women's Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton; arrested and fined for trying to vote in 1872 | 13 | |
| 103779052 | Elizabeth Blackwell | Abolitionist and women's rights activist; first woman to earn a medical degree; founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children | 14 | |
| 103779053 | Margaret Fuller | wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century in 1845 arguing for women's independence | 15 | |
| 103779054 | Robert Owen | Idealist Scottish manufacturer who attempted to create a communal society in New Harmony, Indiana | 16 | |
| 103779055 | John Humphrey Noyes | utopian socialist who formed the Oneida Community in 1848 | 17 | |
| 103779056 | John James Audubon | Painted and published Birds of America | 18 | |
| 103779057 | Sylvester Graham | Advocate of dietary reform; created Graham Crackers | 19 | |
| 103779058 | The Hudson River School | turned out students such as Thomas Coles, Thomas Doughty, and Asher B. Durand, who all painted landscapes of American Wilderness | 20 | |
| 103779059 | Gilbert Stuart | One of the greatest portrait painters of all time; painted portraits of Washington | 21 | |
| 103779060 | John Singleton Copely | Colonial artist who painted important New England figures | 22 | |
| 103779061 | Washington Irving | "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"; "Rip Van Winkle"; along with James Fenimore Cooper, was one of the first American authors to earn acclaim in Europe | 23 | |
| 103779062 | James Fenimore Cooper | Leatherstocking Tales-a series of novels about Natty Bumppo; known for Last of the Mohicans | 24 | |
| 103779063 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | most notably wrote the Transcendentalist in 1841 | 25 | |
| 103779064 | Henry David Thoreau | Known for Walden and Civil Disobedience | 26 | |
| 103779065 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Wrote The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlett Letter | 27 | |
| 103779066 | Herman Melville | Moby-Dick | 28 | |
| 103779067 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | wrote The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere's Ride, A Psalm of Life, and Evangeline; member of the Fireside poets | 29 | |
| 103779068 | James Russell Lowell | founded a literary journal called The Pioneer | 30 | |
| 103779069 | Walt Whitman | wrote Leaves of Grass which was praised by Ralph Waldo Emerson | 31 | |
| 103779070 | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women; joined the Transcendentalist Club | 32 | |
| 103779071 | Edgar Allan Poe | "The Raven"; helped create the genres of detective fiction and crime fiction | 33 | |
| 103779072 | Stephen Foster | "Oh! Susanna"; "Camptown Races" | 34 | |
| 103779073 | P. T. Barnum | Barnum and Bailey Circus; Ringling Brothers | 35 |
