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Famous Americans Late 1700s to Middle 1800s
These are authors and social reformers of the period, not including abolitionists.
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| Noah Webster | Distinguished American from British English; produced first American dictionary |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Poet and essays, led Transcendentalist Movement: truth is beyond the physical |
| Henry David Thoreau | Writer, philosphy about nature, wrote Walden Pond |
| Walt Whtman | Poet, believed in the the worth of everybody, oneness of all humanitybroke away from traditional poetry |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | House of the Seven Gables, Scarlet Letter: sin, punishment & atonement |
| Washington Irving | International fame, stories: "Legend of Sleepy Hollow, "Rip Van Winkle" |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Poet, short stories, "The Tell-Tale Heart" , "The Raven" |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Novels, 1st great great Am. writer: The Last of the Mohicans |
| Emily Dickinson | Secluded person, poems about love, death, immortality |
| Herman Melville | Novels based on Navy: Moby Dick |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Popular poet: Paul Revere's Ride, Legend of Hiawatha |
| Horace Mann | Public education for both men & women, established hospitals for insane |
| Dorothea Dix | Improvement of mental institutions and prisons |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Women's rights, Seneca Falls Convention, anti slavery |
| Susan B. Anthony | Suffragettes, temperence movement |
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Spanish I, II, & III |
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