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- Dewitt Clinton
- constructed the erie canal
- william cullen bryant
- wrote thanatopsis
- isaac singer
- sewing machine man
- James Fenimore Cooper
- leatherstocking tales( last of the mohicans)
- samuel f. b. morse
- created the telegraph system morse code
- john peter zenger
- newspaper printer who printed controversial things which led to public discussion/
- Ralph Waldo emerson
- the american scholar
- samuel slater
- created the first water powered mill/introduced textile/father of the industrial revolution
- John Deere
- invented commercial steel plow
- washinton irving
- legend of sleepy hollow/ the sketch book of geoffrey crayon
- eli whitney
- created the cotton gin
- Alexander Bell
- created the telephone
- molly maguire
- irish rebel group/coalfield crimes/
- elizabeth cady stanton
- declaration of sentiments early advocate for womens rights
- william H mcguffey
- created the nations first and most widely used series of textbooks
- edgar allen poe
- the raven/fall of the house of usher
- henry david thoreau
- civil disobedience
- roger b. taney
- fifth chief of justice/twelth attorney general
- elias howe
- created the sewing machine
- lucy stone
- first woman to earn degree in MA and to keep her last name
- horace mann
- educator reformer
- charles wilson peale
- painter/musem-first to adopt taxonomy
- brigham young
- founder of salt lake city
- francis parkman
- the oregon trail/france and england in North america
- nathaniel hawthorne
- the scarlet letter
- lucretia mott
- led the womens rights movement/upset that women were not in the london convention
- cyrus mcCormick
- created the reaper
- emily dickinson
- slant rhyme
- herman melville
- wrote moby dick
- dr. oliver wendell holmes
- doctor who wrote numerous pieces/old ironsides/the aristocrat of the breakfast table/puerperal fever
- charles grandison finney
- father of modern revivalism
- harriet beecher stowe
- uncle tom's cabin
- joseph smith
- founder of the latter day saints movement
- John J. Audobon
- painted birds with exact detail
- Neal S. Dow
- sponsored maine law of 1851-father of prohibition
- horace greeley
- wrote the liberator
- Louisa May Alcott
- wrote little women
- walt whitman
- the leaves of grass
- robert fulton
- created the first steamboat
- T.S. Arthur
- ten nights in a bar room/ what i saw there
- henry wadsworth longfellow
- song of hiawatha/evangeline/paul revere's ride
- maria monk
- the awful disclosures of maria monk/the hidden secrets of a nun's life
- George Bancroft
- founded naval academy/father of american history/publised history book
- peter cartwright
- traveling preacher/benevolence/helped start second great awakening
- dorothea dix
- created first mental asylums