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History Ch 14 people
Question | Answer |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson | was ESSAYIST and POET, he was a supporter of the transcendentalist- philosophy of SELF- RELIANCE |
Margaret Fuller | a journalist, critic, and WOMEN'S RIGHT ACTIVIST who was a member of the transcendentalist group of authors |
Henry David Thoreau | was a writer and transcendentalist philosopher, he STUDIED NATURE and published a magazine article, "CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE" |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | was an American WRITER who wrote THE SCARLETT LETTER |
Herman Melville | was a WRITER who based his stories off his own SAILING EXPERIENCES, he wrote, MOBY DICK |
Edgar Allan Poe | a writer who is famous for his HAUNTING POEM, THE RAVEN, and many more CHILLING OR ROMANTIC STORIES |
Emily Dickinson | was an American POET who lived a RECLUSIVE LIFE after her poems were not widely acclaimed until after her death |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | an AMERICAN POET know for "Paul Revere's ride", in TALES OF THE WAYSIDE INN & HIAWATHA |
Walt Whitman | was an AMERICAN POET , he gained recognition abroad and later at home for UNRHYMED WORKS OF POETRY |
Charles Grandison Finney | was an AMERICAN CLERGYMAN/ EDUCATOR who annoyed convention ministers with his long revivals |
Lyman Beecher | was an AMERICAN CLERGYMAN who disapproved on the style of PREACHING ON THE GREAT AWAKENING MINISTERS |
Dorothea Dix | helped change the PRISON SYSTEM nationwide by advocating the development of state hospitals |
Horace Mann | is considered "FATHER OF AMERICAN PUBLIC PUBLIC EDUCATION" who pushed for an education for all children |
Catharine Beech | An AMERICAN EDUCATOR who promoted education for women in such writings as , AN ESSAY ON THE EDUCATION OF FEMALE TEACHERS |
Thomas Gallaudet | studied techniques for INSTRUCTING THE HEARING IMPAIRED PEOPLE and establish the FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOOL for the hearing impaired |