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APUSH Mini-Unit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alexis de Tocqueville | ¨Democracy in America¨ Study US prisons |
| Gustace de Beaumont | Study US prisons |
| Charles Finney | Most successful revivalist interpreted scripts literally recruited 1000s |
| Mother Ann Lee | Shaker founder end was near, be prepared to meet your makers celibacy release signs through wild dances/fingertips, fully released when u collapse |
| Joseph Smith | Founder of the Mormons published book of Mormons from old plats "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints" |
| Brigham Young | Takes over as President of Church for Mormons Leads Mormons to utah |
| William Miller | Adventists --> Salvation/Advent Day God is coming on March 1844, then October 22, 1844 |
| John Wesley | led Revival movement in Church of England Death led to Methodists |
| Francis Asbury | Methodist preacher |
| Peter Cartwright | Methodist preacher |
| Robert Owen | New Harmony Communal Experiment |
| John Humphrey Noyes | Oneida Community perfection through cooperation not competition manufacturing skills complex marriages/sexual routine |
| Fanny Wright | Nashoba |
| George Ripley | Brook Farm Transcendentalist |
| Henry David Thoreau | Transcendentalist "Walden or Life in the Woods" |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Transcendentalist change through progress in public eye self-reliance |
| Walt Whitman | Transcendentalist Leaves of Grass expression |
| Washington Irving | Native New York Tales "Sketch Book" "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| James Fennimore Cooper | American frontier life "Last of the Mohicans" "pioneers" "the spy" "leatherstocking tales" |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Imagination, mystery, eeriness "The pit and the pendulum" "the murders of rue morgue" "the raven" |
| Herman Melville | human quest to tame nature "moby dick" |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Struggles of indiv. "Scarlet Letter" "House of Seven Gables" |
| Ben West | American Art - First "Death of General Wolfe at the Battle of Quebec" "Death of Pale Horse" |
| John Singleton Copley | American Art "Watson and the Shark" |
| John Trumbull | American Art Student of Ben West Sketches of Amer. Hist. 4 paintings for U.S. capitol rotunda |
| Gilbert Stuart | American Art Portrait Painter - George Washington - John Adams "The Skater" |
| Thomas Cole | American Art Hudson River School of Painting |
| Fredrick Church | American Art Hudson River School of Painting |
| Ascher B. Durand | American Art Hudson River School of Painting |
| Lucretia Mott | Women's Rights |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Women's Rights |
| Susan B. Anthony | Women's Rights |
| Angelina Grimke | Women's Rights |
| Sojourner Truth | Women's Rights |
| Dorothea Dix | Mentally Ill Treatment traveled to every state and studied conditions of mentally ill and spoke to every state legislature |
| Horace Mann | Public Education Access increased access, and changed the curriculum similar to Dorothea Dix |
| Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe | First school for the blind, used braille |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist "The Liberator" |
| Theodore Weld | Abolitionist Intense religious beliefs abt slavery, made it a church |
| Angelina Grimke + Sarah Grimke | Abolitionist "American Slavery as it is" - southern slave accts |
| Harriet Tubman | Abolitionist Underground Railroad |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Abolitionist "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| Fredrick Douglas | Abolitionist "Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas" "North Star" - newspaper |
| Elijah Lovejoy | Abolitionist published "the liberator" martyr |
| John Brown | Abolitionist Armed Rebellion and Uprising Bleeding Kansas John Brown's Raid |
| VanBuren | Abolitionist Free Soil Party |
| Denmark Vessey | Abolitionist Revolt |
| Nat Turner | Abolitionist Revolt |
| Tappans' | Abolitionists |
| Lincoln | Will not spread slavery but will not end it |