American Pageant: Chapter 15 People to Know

Peter Cartwright

a dominant preacher that called sinners to repent and converted thousands of people.

Lucretia Mott

a leader of the women's rights movement. A Quaker whose anger emerged when she and her female delegates were not recognized at the London antislavery convention.

Susan B. Anthony

a militant lecturer for women's rights who became a prominent and outstanding supporter of women's rights

John J. Audubon

a naturalist whose "Birds of America" gained popularity. The Audubon Society was named after him.

Henry David Thoreau

a poet and transcendentalist that refused to pay his Massachusetts poll tax. His writings encouraged Mahatma Gandhi to resist British rule in India.

Joseph Smith

a visionary that claimed he received golden plates from an angel.

Stephen C. Foster

a white Pennsylvanian that wrote songs about the spirit of the slaves.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

also a leader of the women's rights movement. shocked feminists by supporting suffrage for women.

Horace Mann

campaigned for better schools, longer school terms, higher pay for teachers and an enlarged curriculum.

Dorothea Dix

did reports on insanity and asylums. treated the mentally ill.

Emily Dickinson

female poet whose poems included themes of love, nature, death and immortality.

Louisa May Alcott

female poet. wrote "Little Women".

Amelia Bloomer

fought against the "street sweeping" female attire by wearing a short skirt with Turkish trousers.

Robert Owen

found a community of a thousand people at New Harmony.

Walt Whitman

his poems were very romantic and emotional. wrote "Leaves of Grass".

Lucy Stone

kept her maiden name after marriage.

Brigham Young

murdered Joseph Smith. an aggressive leader, an expressive preacher and a clever administrator.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

one of the most popular poets in America.

Charles Grandison Finney

preacher that attracted huge crowds who were attentive to his chapels. He also condemned alcohol and slavery.

Francis Parkman

published volumes that described the struggle between France and Britain.

Neal S. Dow

sponsored the Maine Law of 1851.

James Fenimore Cooper

the first American novelist. He explored America's republic and civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

transcendentalist whose address, "The American Scholar" declared independence. became a critic of slavery and supported the Union cause of the Civil War.

Herman Melville

wrote "Moby Dick".

Nathaniel Hawthorne

wrote "The Scarlet Letter" and "The Marble Faun".