| A | B |
| Temperance Movement | Abolish drinking of liquor |
| Dorthea Dix | Mental Hospitals instead of jail |
| Horace Mann | Education Reform |
| Utopia | perfect society |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Transcendentalist writer and utopian |
| Second Great Awakening | wave of religious revivalism |
| Abolitionist movement | put an end to slavery |
| Grimke sisters | abolitionists |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | Frenchman who described American self reliance as individualism |
| Noah Webster | first American dictionary |
| Transcendentalist Movement | individuals self reliant, love of nature |
| Henry David Thoreau | Author of Walden Pond, and a transcendentalist |
| Washington Irving | Legend of Sleepy Hollow, American common man |
| James Fenimore Cooper | writer who portrayed lives of Native Americans and common Americans |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | writer influenced by transcendentalists but less optimistic |
| Edgar Allen Pow | writer who created the genre of mystery |
| Hudson River School of Artists | landscape painters |
| Neoclassical architecture | used inflence of ancient Greece and Rome symbolizing democracy |