Name ______Per _____
Reform Era (Chapter 14) People
For each definition, identify the person being described. Except for Native Americans, people have full names. All names need to be spelled correctly and capitalized.
1. ______Worked for temperance, abolition, and women’s rights, especially wanted to see women get the right to control their own property and wages
2. ______French born artist who is best known for his paintings of Birds of America
3. ______American poet who wrote about nature, love, and death, most poems were published after her death
4. ______Believed that the mentally ill were being treated harshly, starting in 1841 she began working to improve conditions
5 ______Former slave who escaped in 1838 and became one of the speakers for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, published an anti-slavery newspaper called The North Star
6. ______Writer who wanted Americans to take pride in their own culture, member of a group of thinkers who started transcendentalism
7. ______Started publishing the anti-slavery newspaper TheLiberator in 1831
8. ______Wrote about love, guilt and revenge in Puritan America, most famous book is The Scarlet Letter
9. ______America’s first author to win European respect, most famous for “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
10. ______In 1837 became the head of the 1st state board of education, known as the “Father of Public Education” believed that education was “the great equalizer”
11. ______Took up the cause of Women’s Rights when they were denied access to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in
______London in 1840, helped organize a convention on the subject in their New York hometown
12. ______Created the 1st detective story when he wrote “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, also wrote stories that influenced today’s horror stories
13. ______Student of Emerson who believed that people should live up to their own individual standards, also thought that people should not obey laws they considered unjust
14. ______Born into slavery, her original name was Isabella Baumfee, fought through the courts to regain her son, fought for abolition and women’s rights
15. ______Born into slavery, most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, even though there was a price on her head, she made 19 trips into the South to help lead others to freedom
16. ______Teacher and lawyer who published his 1st dictionary in 1828, revised it in 1840, helped to create American English