Reformers, Artists and Authors

She wrote The History of Standard Oil Company reveling abusive practices 

Led the penitentiary and asylum reform in the Antebellum Era

Declared after the Ok. land rush, West-closed The Significance of the Frontier in Amer. History

This Act ended the Railroad practice of sending rebates to their biggest customers 

Founder of the Oneida Community, the most sustainable Utopian society of the age 

Initiative, Recall and Referendum were instituted in order to 

Hewrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History, had significant impact on the growth ofUS Navy

She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls in 1848

Magazine credited with having started the tradition of muckraking journalism (investigative)

Hudson River School Artist who created a four canvas series know as Voyage of Life

His book The Jungle, led T.Roosevelt & Congress to create the Meat Inspection Act

Former slave, abolitionists and women's rights advocate famous for speech Ain't I a Woman

Founder of the National Women's Party, sole plank was to get women's suffrage

Author of the Scarlet Letter, the story of Hester Prynne,  about sin and guilt

She wrote What Every Girl Should Know teach women about their bodies & pregnancy 

Frederic Church, Thomas Cole were artists that had a romantic view of the west. NY landscape 

The Souls of Black Folk, offers an assessment of the progress of race in the US

His novel Shame of Cities, exposed widespread corruption at several levels of politics

He enforced the Sherman and Clayton Anti-trust Acts and became known as 

Founded the Church of Latter Day Saints in Palmyra, NY, persecution led to  westward migration 

Sisters that fought against slavery and were advocates for Women's Rights 

Important conservationist, advised T.Roosevelt on environmental issues, founded the Sierra Club

Rochester, N. Y. on Nov. 5, 1872, she challenged authorities and cast a vote and was arrested

Grade level specific schoolbooks that combined reading lessons with moralistic teachings.

Progressive writer, he exposed urban poverty in his book How the Other Half Lives 

Protege of Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, She led NAWSA in early 1900s

Author of The Octopus, a chronicling of conflicts between wheat growers and a railway companies

Wrote Walden & On Civil Disobedience ... he was a transcendentalist from Massachusetts  

He wrote the overtly romantic actions novels referred to as the Leather stocking Tales

He was an abolitionist that published The Liberator

Became the leader of the Mormons after the murder of Joseph Smith, moved group to Utah

She wrote A Century of Dishonor, regarding the mistreatment of Native Americans