| A | B |
|---|
| Henry Longfellow | Wrote "Paul Revere's Ride" and "Song of Hiawatha" |
| Henry Thoreau | Writer and poet who lived at Walden Pond, and believed in self-reliance |
| Ralph Emerson | Leader of the American transendentalists and urged people to discover strengths within themselves |
| Emily Dickinson | Reclusive poet who published only 7 poems in her lifetime |
| Edgar Poe | Wrote "the Raven" and is the father of the mystery and detective fiction |
| Walt Whitman | Wrote "Leaves of Grass" |
| Herman Melville | Wrote "Moby Dick" |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Wrote "Scarlett Letter" and "The House of seven Gables" |
| James Cooper | Wrote "Last of the Mohicans" and "The Deerslayer" |
| Washington Irving | Wrote "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" |
| Lucy Stone | 1st MA woman to earn a college degree and was 1st American woman to keep her own name |
| Susan B. Anthony | Spoke for women's rights and delivered speeches prepared by Stanton |
| William Garrison | Published the newspaper, "The Liberator" |
| Antoinette Blackwell | 1st ordained female minister |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | 1st Americal female medical doctor |
| Emma Willard | Opened 1st high school for girls (Troy Female Seminary) in Troy, NY |
| Harriet Tubman | Guided more than 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground RR |
| Grimke | Sister published ant-slavery pamphlets and made speeches against slavery and for women's rights |
| Elizabeth Stanton | Arranged the Seneca Falls Convention and drafted the "Declaration of Sentiments" |
