| A | B |
|---|
| He created a state board of education | Horace Mann |
| First to admit African American females in schools | Prudence Crandell |
| He opened a school for the hearing impaired | Thomas Gallaudet |
| He wrote an early American Spelling Book and The American Dictionary | Noah Webster |
| He wrote one of the first reading series used in schools | William McGuffey |
| First colleges to admit women and African Americans | Oberlin and Bowdon |
| a voluntary organization designed to promote useful knowledge | Lyceum |
| an activist for prison reform and proper treatment for the mentally ill | Dorothea Lynn Dix |
| became a leader of the women's rights movement | Lucretia Mott |
| became a leader of the women's rights movement | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Women's Rights Convention | Seneca Falls |
| anti-slavery speaker and publisher of the "North Star"newspaper | Frederick Douglas |
| anit-slavery | abolitionists |
| published the newspaper "The Liberator" | William Lloyd Garrison |
| secret organization devoted to assisting slaves escape to the North | Underground Railroad |
| first women physician | Elizabeth Blackwell |
| famous conductor of the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| active in aniti-slavery movement | the Grimke sisters |
| women's rights activist | Angela Bloomer |
| writer of American stories | James Fenimore Cooper |
| wrote storis about Hudson River Valley- Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving |
| wrote Mobey Dick | Herman Melville |
| wrote "Hiawatha" | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| wrote about death - used much imagination - live in Richmond | Edgar Allen Poe |
| discovered a new comet | Maria Mitchell |
| "Pathfinder of the Seas" statue-findings used in worldwide navigation | Matthew Fontain Maury |
| first to use ether as an anesthetic in surgery | C.W. Long |
| first to use ether as an anesthetic in surgery | W. T. Morton |
| inventor of telegraph | Samuel Morse |
| economic system that believes that factories should be owned and operated by overall society | socialism |
| founded Mormon Church | Joseph Smith |
| offshoot of the Quakers - very strict and religious | The Shakers |
| a transcendentalist who wrote "On Walden's Pond" | Henry David Thoreau |
| to stop or limit the use of alcohol | The Temperance Movement |
| a renewal of Protestantism marked by great revival meetings | Second Great Awakening |
