| A | B |
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| James Fenimore Coooer | He wanted evocation of wilderness, adventure, and western expansion |
| Walt Whitman | Wrote Leaves of Grass |
| Herman Melville | Wrote Moby Dick |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Wrote "The Raven" |
| William Gilmore Simms | Believed duty of intellectual to defend southern lifestyle + slavery, sectional |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Wrote "Nature" and "Self-Reliance" |
| Henry David Thoreau | Thought people should seek self-realization by not conforming to society's expectations and responding to own instincts |
| Brook Farm | Attempt at a utopia by George Ripley |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Wrote The Blithedale Romance and The Scarlet Letter |
| New Harmony | Attempt at a utopia by Robert Owen |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints | New and more organized form of Mormonism |
| Joseph Smith | Leader of LDS Mormons |
| Phrenology | Study of the shape and regions of the skull to indicate character and intelligence |
| Horace Mann | Greatest reformer for education |
| Asylum Movement | Antiquated jails replaced with new penitentiaries and mental institutions |
| Seneca Falls Convention | First convention to discuss women's rights |
| Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions | Stated all men and women are equal and called for women's suffrage |
| American Colonization Society | Virginians who wanted manumission and transportation out of country but also maintain property rights by compensating slaveholder |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Employed by anti slavery newspaper, but impatient with moderate tone and reform proposals |
| Frederick Douglass | Abolitionist who escaped slavery, and lectured in the northeast |
