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Joseph Smith and Brigham Young
Mormon leaders
Led followers west to escape persecution
Settled near Great Salt Lake Utah
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Leader at Seneca Falls Convention in 1848
Co-wrote “The Declaration of Sentiments”
Lucretia Mott
Leader at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848
Co-wrote “The Declaration of Sentiments”
Margaret Fuller–Advocated that
women could have opinions outside the Cult of Domesticity
–Advocated for birth control
Elias Howe and I.M. Singer
Invented sewing machine with foot treadle
Reduced time needed to make shoes and clothes
Cyrus McCormick
Invented mechanical reaper
Reduced time required for harvest
Made larger farms possible
Robert Fulton
Advanced the design of the steamboat
Led to improvements in transportation and commerce
James Fenimore Cooper
First major American novelist
Wrote about frontier life/adventures
The Last of the Mohicans
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American poet
Known for Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
Wrote “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”
Ralph Waldo Emerson–Chief spokesperson
for Transcendentalism (reaction against the scientific rationalism)
– wrote Walden Pond
Henry David Thoreau–Protested the
Mexican War by refusing to pay his taxes
–Wrote Duty of Civil Disobedience
"That government is best which governs least"
Walt Whitman
Father of “free verse” in poetry
Wrote openly about death, sexuality, and equality of races
Famous work: Leaves of Grass
John James Audubon
-published Birds of America, an art book showing North American birds
Promoted the preservation of nature
Photo of White Gyrfalcons