History Test 5 Flashcards
Leran for the glory of God! (46 cards)
One of the greatest Methodist circuit riders who accepted Christ at a camp meeting in Kentucky ?
Peter Cartwright
American lawyer and lecturer known as the Great Agnostic who was one of the most outspoken proponents of Darwinism and religious unbelief?
Robert Green Ingersoll
Advocate who worked to improve the treatment of people with mental illness ?
Dorothea L. Dix
founder of the first settlement house in New York City called the Five Points Mission?
Phoebe Palmer
Social reformer who joined the women’s rights movement in 1851 and lectured in many northern stages; especially concerned with women’s suffrage?
Susan B. Anthony
social reformer who campaigned for social, political, and economic equality for women and helped organize the first women’s rights convention in 1848 at Seneca Falls; especially concerned with women’s suffrage?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Black American woman who started New York City’s first Sunday school program?
Catherine Ferguson
one of the American Sunday School Union’s greatest Sunday school missionary who founded more than 1,300 Sunday schools in the Mississippi Valley?
Stephen Paxson
Teacher and lecturer who founded the first lyceum in Millbury, Connecticut, in 1826?
Josiah Holbrook
Fireside poet who wrote many poems, including longer and narrative poems, and received worldwide recognition as a creative genius; only American poet honored in Westminister Abbey?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fireside poet who grew up as a Quaker and expressed a deep Christian faith in all his poems?
John Greenleaf Whittier
Fireside poet who was also an essayist and medical doctor and is noted for his patriotic verse and good common sense?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fireside poet who distinguished himself not only through powerful patriotic verse, but also through work in foreign diplomacy, law, and linguistics?
James Russel Lowell
Author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “ Rip Van Winkle”; Father of American Short Story?
Washington Irving
Author of “The Pilot” and “The Leatherstocking Tales”; is often considered to have written the first truly American novel?
James Fenimore Cooper
Author of many excellent works of fiction including “The House of Seven Gables” and “The Scarlet Letter”?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Unitarian minister and famous essayist who developed American transcendentalism?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Follower of Emerson who spent two years communing with nature at Waldon Pond; author of Walden?
Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalist author and poet known for his poems about the energy and hopes of the American worker as well as his poems about nature?
Walt Whitman
Owner of the “New York Herald”?
James Gordon Bennet
Owner of the “New York Tribune”?
Horace Greeley
music editor who carried on the tradition of the singing school?
Lowell Mason
painter remembered for his many portraits of George Washington?
Gilbert Stuart
artist who helped found the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia?
Charles Wilson Peale
