| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Dorothea Dix | Quietly Determined reformer who substantially improved conditions for the mentally ill |
| Brigham Young | The Mormon Moses who led persecuted latter day saints to their promised land in Utah |
| Elizabeth Stanton | leading feminist who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 and pushed for women's suffrage |
| Susan B. Anthony and Lucrieta Mott | Quaker Women's Rights advocates who also strongly supported abolition of slavery |
| Emily Dickinson | Reclusive New England poet who wrote about love death and immortality |
| Charles Finney | influential evangelical revivalist of the Second Great Awakening |
| Robert Owen | Idealistic Scottish industrialist whose attempt at communal utopia failed |
| Oneida colony | radical New York commune that practiced complex marriage and eugenic birth control |
| Shakers | Long lived early American religious sect that attracted thousands of members to its celibate communities |
| Louisa May Alcott | Novelist whose tales of family life helped economically support her own struggling transcendentalist family |
| James Fennimore Cooper | Path breaking American Novelist who contrasted the natural person of the forest with the values of modern civilization |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Second rate poet and philosopher, promoter of transcendentalist ideals and American culture and Scholarship |
| Walt Whitman | Bold unconventional poet who celebrated American democracy |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Eccentric Southern born genius whose tales of mystery suffering and the supernatural departed from general American literary trends |
| Herman Melville | New York Writer whose romantic sea tales were more popular than his dark literary masterpiece |
| Brook Farm | Intellectual commune in Massachusetts based on "plain living and high thinking" |
| Knickerbockers | New York Literary Movement-Irving, Cooper, Bryant |
| Seneca Falls | Women's rights convention 1848 NY made appeal based on Dec. Of Ind |
| Methodists Baptists | religions that benefited most from 2nd G.A. |
| Deism | liberal religious belief held by many founding fathers that stressed rationalism and moral behavior |
| Steamboat | fultons invention that made river transport a two way affair. Clermont |
| Limited Liability | Principle that permitted individual investors to risk no more capital in a business venture than their own share of a corporation's stock |
| Samuel Slater | Immigrant mechanic who started American Industrialization by setting up his cotton spinning factory 1791 |
| Eli Whitney | yankee mechanical genius who revolutionized cotton production and created interchangeable parts. |
| Elias Howe | Inventor of a machine that revolutionized the ready made clothing industry |
| Samuel Morse | Painter turned inventor who devolved the first reliable long distance instance communication |
| Know-Nothings | agitator against immigrants and Roman Catholics |
| Commonwealth v. hunt | Declared labor unions legal |
| Cyrus McCormick | Inventor of the Mechanical Reaper that transformed grain growing into a business |
| Robert Fulton | Developer of a folly that made rivers two way streams of transportation |
| Cyrus Field | Wealthy NY manufacturer who laid the first transatlantic cable in 1858 |
| Molly Maguires | Radical secret Irish Labor union of the 60's and 70's |
| DeWitt Clinton | NY governor who built Erie Canal |
| Clipper ships | short lived American boats fast but small |
| Tramp Steamers | British ships larger and more economically productive than clipper ships |
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