| A | B |
|---|
| John Quincy Adams | 6th President 1825 |
| U.S. and Mexico go to war | 1846 |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Women's rights 1848 |
| Andrew Jackson | champion of the "common people" |
| Washington Irving | American Author - Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| James Fennimore Cooper | American Author - The Last of the Mohicans |
| William Cullen Bryant | American Poet and Editor |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | American author - The Scarlet Letter |
| Herman Melville | American Author - Moby Dick |
| William Wells Brown | African American Author - Clotel |
| Edgar Allan Poe | American Author - The Raven |
| Margaret Fuller | American Author - Women's Rights |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | American Poet - Song of Hiawatha or Paul Revere's Ride |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | American poet - fought slavery |
| Walt Whitman | American poet - Leaves of Grass |
| Emily Dickinson | American Poet - "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | American writer - encouraged Americans to discard European thinking |
| Henry David Thoreau | American writer who moved to Walden Pond |
| Author jailed for not paying a poll tax | Henry David Thoreau |
| Genre art | depicts everyday subjects |
| George Caitlin | painted Native Americans in North America |
| Maria Mitchell | astronomer who discovered a comet |
| Joseph Henry | invented an electromagnetic motor |
| Matthew Maury | developed ways to predict the winds and ocean tides |
| Dr. Crawford Long and Dr. William Morton | used ether as an anesthetic for surgery |
