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Andrew Jackson: Frontiersman who ran for president once and lost to a corrupt bargain, then won four years later. He was loved among the people because he was liberal.
Isaac Singer: He improved Howe's sewing machine
"Off-Shoot Technology": Technological advances that are results of other recent advances. An example would be the locomotive, then the sleeping car.
Henry Clay: He made a corrupt bargain with John Quincy Adams to make Adams president. He also was a supporter of the American System.
Edgar Allen Poe: He wrote "The Raven." He had a rough life and he turned to drinking where he soon began writing. He wrote many pieces that had scary experiences that he had gone through himself while drunk. His writing contained mentally unhealthy styles, ones that he had gone through.
Lucretia Mott: She was an abolitionist and an advocate for equal rights between men and women. She attended the convention at Seneca Falls where her group of women weren't recognized.
William Prescott: He was a historian who composed books about how Mexico and Peru were conquered.
John Marshall: He was Chief Justice whom Adams appointed at the last minute. He set many precedents that ultimately grew the power of the federal government and made America a good environment for business.
Peter Cartwright: He was a Methodist frontier preacher who demanded that sinners ask for forgiveness. He trashed Satan.
John Quincy Adams 2: He was helped out by Henry Clay to become president over Andrew Jackson, which was whom the people wanted
Nathaniel Hawthorne 2: He wrote about how the guilty feelings of sin tear a human apart through The Scarlet Letter. He was a Puritan who believed in the eternal conflict of good vs. evil.
William Gilmore Simms: He was a Southern novelist who wrote many books. He mostly wrote about the South during the colonial era and during the Revolutionary War and he avoided writing about the Southern upper class that he belonged to.
Peter Cooper: He invented the first American steam locomotive to be used on a track. He built the Tom Thumb.
John Jacob Astor: He made his money through first through fur trading, then through banking.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: He was a poet who intended his writing to be read by the polite society but was instead embraced by the masses. Even though he was learned in European styles, his best poems had American styles.
Washington Irving: He was the first American author to be acknowledged in countries other than America. He wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
John Audubon: He studied birds and made paintings of them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: He spoke "The American Scholar" which encouraged American writers to write in American ways and to write about American subjects. He believed that people should be independent and proud of themselves. He was an abolitionist. He advocated self-reliance and optimism.
Merriwether Lewis: He and William Clark went on an expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory up to the Rockies and all in between.
William McGuffey: He taught students morality, patriotism, and idealism.
Noah Webster: He made the first American dictionary
Cyrus McCormick: He made the mechanical mower-reaper.
The "Know-Nothings": They were Nativists that hated immigrants who were mostly Catholic.
Susan B. Anthony: A Quaker feminist who went to great lengths to get her voice heard.
Osceola: He was the chief of the Seminole tribe in Florida. He was defeated by Jackson.
John Deere 2: He invented the steel plow and the tractor.
James Cook: He sailed to New Zealand and parts of Australia.
Daniel Webster: He was a Whig aristocrat
DeWitt Clinton 2: He was the governor of New York who built the Erie Canal which linked the Hudson River to the Midwest. He made the New York public school system; actively interested in all scientific and social questions, he encouraged steam navigation, and modified the laws governing criminals and debtors.
Jenny Lind: She was a very popular opera singer and every man wanted to be with her.
Oliver Perry: He defeated the British on Lake Erie.
Stephen Austin: Mexico gave him large amounts of land in Texas with the promise that he would fill it up with Americans.
Richard Hoe: He invented the 6-cylinder printing press that could print newspapers, etc. much quicker.
Sam Houston: He led the group to defeat Santa Ana and gain Texas
Asa Gray: She wrote hundreds of books on anatomy at Harvard.
Gilbert Stuart: He made George Washington look perfect and spectacular in his paintings. He idealized him. He was also an ex-patriot who spent his whole life in Europe.
Horace Greeley 2: He was an editor for the New York Tribune. He said "Go West, young man, Go West."
John Fitch: He truly invented the first steam boat and got a U.S. patent for it.
Robert Livingston: He went with James Monroe and ended up buying the whole Louisiana Territory
Martin Van Buren 2: He was the hand-picked successor of Andrew Jackson. He did the 10-hour work day and the safety fund system to protect our money.
Vitus Bering: He was a member of the Russian navy and he built Gabriel. He sailed to Asia and to Alaska under Peter the Great
Francis Parkman: He was a historian who wrote about how France and Britain conflicted for control of North America.
Neal Dow: Father of Prohibition; he made a law in Maine that would disallow lethal alcohol to be sold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes: He was an individualist who viewed Boston as the center of the world
Albert Gallatin: He was the "Watchdog of the Treasury." He was Jefferson's Secretary of Treasury.
Francis Asbury: He was an influential speaker who went around America and preached Methodism. He was anti-Deist and was part of the Second Great Awakening.
Thomas Paine: He wrote The Age of Reason and he had the intentions of calling traditional churches corrupt and selfish. He promoted Deism and believed that churches only wanted to hurt its followers for its own benefit.
William Miller: He led the group that believed that Jesus was to come back to earth on October 22, 1844. They originated in the Burned-Over-District.
Nativists: They were a single issue political party. They were the Americans that disliked the immigrants of the mid-1800 because they felt that they took away from the Americans that were already there. They were angry at the Irish and German Catholics that were growing in America. The Know-Nothing party was made to stop immigration and to deport foreign immigrants. They wrote books that made the immigrants look evil.
Robert Owen: He founded a group at New Harmony that was supposed to be harmonious but actually attracted non-harmonious people and was not.
Francis Scott Key: He wrote the Star Spangled Banner after watching Fort McHenry get pounded and still survive.
Robert Fulton: He made the first steam boat which could travel upstream against currents, winds, and on rivers.
John Tyler: He was a member of the Jacksonians while in Senate. Later he reached out to get the support of Texas while running for president as a Whig.
Henry David Thoraeu 2: He opposed slavery and the government that allowed it. He believed in nonviolence to achieve goals. He would restrain physical desires to find truth. He wrote "Walden."
The "little yellow rose": It was a song that was sung about a man having to fight in the Texas War and leaving his love to do so.
Herman Melville: He had lived among the sea and had endured many fearful encounters with cannibals and the ocean. He used these to write Moby Dick, which took a while to become well-liked and popular
James Fenimore Cooper: He got the rest of the world to appreciate New World themes. He included Native Americans in his work and wrote about how they sadly fell. He wrote "Trilogy."
William Cullen Bryant: He wrote "Thanatopsis," a poem that was one of the early excellent poems written in America/
Toussaint l'Ouverture: He was an ex-slave who led a revolt on Santo Domingo.
John Greenleaf Whittier: He wrote poems that detested slavery and inhumanity.
John Trumbull: He painted pictures of the battlefields of the Revolutionary War.
General Fatty Hull: He defeated the British at Detroit.
George Pullman: He made the sleeping car which where one could sleep on a train luxuriously.
Charles Wilson Peale: He painted many portraits of George Washington. Washington himself had to pose for fourteen of his portraits.
Dorothea Dix: She went all over the country to write to the Massachusetts legislature about how insane people are and should not be treated so harshly and be put in such cruel environments. She said that insanity was a mental condition, willful one.
Cyrus Field: He had a cable wire be put across the Atlantic for communication across it.
The "Forty-Eighters": They were Germans that had had bad farming in Germany and some of them also came to America to escape autocracy and to encourage democracy.
William Ladd: He contributed to the American Peace Society and made speeches that promoted peace.
Oneida Colony: It was a community that was made where every man was to be in love with every woman (and vice versa) equally and where there was to be no unique or emphasized sexual relationships but even ones throughout the community. Pregnancies were unwanted.
Joseph Smith 2: He formed the Mormon Church, the first American-made church, and was a polygamist. Americans disliked the church because of this.
George Bancroft: He was a historian of America and he composed a series American history volumes. He was the "Father of American History."
Nicholas Biddle: He led the Bank War when he tried to get another charter early so that Jackson would veto it and Clay would win his election off of that. This didn't work.
The Transcendentalists: They believe that truth has to be found by something within oneself, not just through examination. Ones inner light is what causes one to find truth. They looked down upon organized religion and they believed in self-respect for oneself, regardless of social status. They launched many equal rights movements.
Benjamin Sillman: He was a chemist and a geologist at Yale.
Eli Whitney 2: He invented the cotton gin, which separated the seeds from the cotton. He also found a way to manufacture interchangeable parts.
Elias Howe: He invented the sewing machine in 1846
Samuel Slater: He memorized the way that the British made machines and he brought the idea to America. He made our first cotton spinning machine.
William Henry Harrison: He won the Battle of Tippecanoe and was seen as a national hero after that.
Stephen DeCatur: He was a naval war hero in the War of 1812 and also was one in the fight against the Barbary Pirates. He single-handedly killed the captain of an enemy's ship.
Walt Whitman: He wrote "Leaves of Grass," which reflected his daring, unafraid, bragging, and outspoken personality. This book took a while to become accepted but once it finally did, it was greatly admired
John C. Calhoun 2: He wrote The South Carolina Exposition. He was a southern politician who disliked tariffs and wanted to nullify them
Davy Crocket: He was a Texan rifle man
Boston Associates: They were the first investment capital company and monopolized the textile, railroad, insurance, and banking industries in Massachusetts.
Stephen C. Foster: He was a white man who sang folk songs about slave life.
Horace Mann: As the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, he promoted improved education by having more schools that went on for longer times. He wanted better salaries for teachers and better school courses. He was called the "Father of Modern Education"
Samuel Morse: He invented the telegraph by getting a loan from Congress to do so.
Lyceums: They journeyed around and they taught and spoke to many people at a time about different learning courses. Many were attracted to this. It was basically adult education.
Napoleon: He gave America the Louisiana Territory. He ruled France for many years and was able to get America to side with France in the War of 1812.
Brigham Young: He took over the Mormon Church when Smith died. He led the Mormon people west to Utah where they settled there.
Peggy Eaton: She was allowed into the cabinet when her husband was. She was accused of improper sexual content.
Santa Ana: The Mexican leader who went against the Texans in freeing up Texas. He attacked them and lost.
Unitarians: They denied the Trinity and believed that God existed in only one form and one personality. They believe that Jesus was not God himself, but a great man. They focused on the righteous side of humans, not the evil side and they thought God was kind, not mean. They thought that everyone was part God.
Phineas Barnum: He founded the circus which entertained many.
Shakers: This community had thousands of people in it. Since sex and marriage weren't allowed, the community dissolved eventually to nothing.
James Russell Lowell: He wrote poems that were satires to politics. He satirized the Mexican War and slavery.
Jim Bowie: A frontiersman who invented a lethal knife famously known
Tecumseh: He was a member of the Prophet. He led Indians of many tribes to retain old Indian traditions. They disliked the whites and were crushed at the Battle of Tippecanoe and he was killed at the Battle of Thames
Louis Agassiz: He studied biology at Harvard.

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