The Ferment of Reform and Culture Ch. 15 The American Pageant Flashcards

important figures from chapter fifteen in the 12th edition of The American Pageant for AP US History students

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