American History
Chapter 17,The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-18601. Dorothea Dix- (1802-1887) A tireless reformer, she worked mightily to improve the treatment of the mentally ill. At the outbreak of the Civil War she was appointed superintendent of women nurses for the Union forces.2. Joseph Smith- (1830) He constituted the book of Mormon, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) was launched. He established a religious oligarchy. 3. Brigham Young- (1850s) Stern and austere he proved to be an aggressive leader, an eloquent preacher, and a gifted administrator. Determined to escape persecution, Young in 1846-1847 led his oppressed and despoiled Latter-Day Saints over vast rolling plains to Utah as they sang "Come, Come, Ye Saints." 4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton- (1848) A mother of seven who had insisted on leaving "obey" out of her marriage ceremony, shocked fellow feminists
Poe was a gifted lyric poet, as "The Raven" attests. He eventually served as president of Oberlin College in Ohio, which he helped to make a hotbed of revivalist activity and abolitionism. Europe was amazed to find at last an American with a feather in his hand, not in his hair. In 1819-1820 he published The Sketch Book, which brought him immediate fame home and abroad. Ralph Waldo Emerson- (1837) American essayist and poet, a leader of the philosophical movement of transcendentalism. Finney abandoned that bar to become an evangelist after a deeply moving conversion. His fresh and charming tales were immediately popular. Edgar Allen Poe- (1809-1849) spent most of his youth in Virginia as an eccentric genius. Elizabeth Blackwell, a pioneer in a previously forbidden profession for women, was the first female graduate of medical college.
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Walt Whitman-,
South Seas,
Allen Poe-,
Susan Anthony-,
Brigham Young-,
Cady Stanton-,
Emerson Unitarian,
York City,
Lucretia Mott-,
Charles Finney-,
latter-day saints,
literary figure,
ralph waldo,
american novelist,
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