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Daniel Webster
A leading American senator and statesman during of the Second Party System. A key figure in the Whig party. Served in House of Reps for 8 years and Senate for 19 years -
William Lloyd Garrison
A prominent American abolitionist, journalists, suffragist, and social reformer. Best known as the editor for the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator". On of the many founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. -
Samuel Morse
Co-Founder of the Morse code; Created the first telegraph to improve long-distance talking -
John Deere
Created the 1st commerically sucessfull steelplow; Founded Deere & Company -
Horace Mann
Was an American politician and eduactional reformer. Known as the "Father of the Common School Movement. In 1838, he founded edited "The Common School Journal". -
Dorothea Dix
Amercian Activist whose work of asylum influenced prison and mental hospital care. -
Fredrick Douglass
Abolitionist leader who published many abolitionists newpapers such as "North Star", "New National Era", and "Douglass Monthly" -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Early leader of the women right's movement; Wrote Declaration of Sentiments; President of the National Woman's Suffage Assocation ( 1892- 1900) -
Soujourner Truth
African American Abolitionist and Woman's rights activist; "Ain't I a Women" delivered at Ohio Woman's Rights Convention in 1851 -
Susan B. Anthony
Brought up to a Quaker family with long activist traditions. Was active in the temperance movement. Led her to join woman's rights movement's in 1852. In 1900, she persuded the University of Rochester to admit women. -
Henry David Thoreau
Was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, Naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.
Best known for book "Walden"; and his essay Resistance of Civil Disobedience" -
Isaac Singer
Founder of Singer Manufactoring Company; Invented affordable sewing machine for use in home -
Cyrus McCormick
Founder of the McCormick Havesting Machine Company; Became apart of The International Havesting Company in 1902
