Wenner APUSH Ch 12

One of the greatest writers of his era, his most important novel was Moby Dick, published in 1851

Perfectionists: utopians who lived in __ New York; practiced polygamy, communal property & communal raising of children

A pessimistic author who was a major contributor to the American Renaissance; wrote The Scarlet Letter

A social reformer who campaigned for women’s rights & temperance, & was an abolitionist; she helped form the NWSA

Poet & transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature, as demonstrated in his book, Leaves of Grass

African American religious figure who joined the Shaker society & built her own African American Shaker community

Born into slavery, she escaped in 1827 and became a leading preacher against slavery & for the rights of women

An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption

Her efforts on behalf of the mentally ill & prisoners helped create dozens of new institutions across the US & Europe

She preached in the 1830s through the African Methodist Church as the first black woman to become a minister

Editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper The Liberator & one of the founders of the American Anti-slavery Society

"Father of the public-school system"; a proponent of public-school reform, he set the standard for public schools

The __ school of landscape painting in the U.S. saw artists paint spectacular vistas of the rugged wilderness

He was the most influential spokesman for American literary nationalism & the leading voice of transcendentalism

A black abolitionist who called for the immediate emancipation of slaves; believed that blacks should revolt

One of the first religious communal movements; members pledged to abstain from alcohol, tobacco, politics, war, & sex

African country founded for former slaves to live in after being transported back to Africa by the ACS

Transcendentalist who urged Americans to resist social conformity & unjust laws; wrote down his beliefs in Walden

Religious leader who founded the Latter-Day Saint movement, the predominant branch of which is Mormonism

She issued the Declaration of Sentiments which declared men & women to be equal and demanded the right to vote for women

She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a fictional work which depicted the brutality and inhumanity of slavery

After escaping slavery in Maryland, he became an influential writer & prominent African American abolitionist

1848 meeting regarded by many as the birthplace of American feminism; the first women’s rights convention in the US