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Charles Finney
Charles Grandison Finney was also the most famous revivalist of the Second Great Awakening. He did not merely lead revivals; he actively marketed, promoted and packaged them. -
Sojourner Truth
she joined the Northampton Association of Education and Industry in Northampton, Massachusetts. Founded by abolitionists, the organization supported a broad reform agenda including women's rights and pacifism. Members lived together on 500 acres as a self-sufficient community. -
Henry David Thoreau
Pencil leads were made by filling a groove in a piece of wood with a mixture of ground graphite and some kind of binder. -
William Lloyd Garrison
He helped organize the New England Anti-Slavery Society, and, the following year, the American Anti-Slavery Society. These were the first organizations dedicated to promoting immediate emancipation. Garrison was unyeilding and steadfast in his beliefs. -
Samuel Morse
Though not part of the original design, the invention came to include a dot-and-dash code that used different numbers to represent the letters of the alphabet. In time, this newly invented code would become known as "Morse Code."
With the aid of some partners, Samuel F.B. Morse applied for a patent for his new invention and went to work building a prototype. Not long after, Morse was transmitting ten words per minute with the device at a New York exhibition. -
john Deere
john Deere (Febuary 7,1804-May 17,1886) was American blacksmith and manufactuer who was founded Deere & Company.one of the largest and leding agrichltural and constution equipments manufactures in the word.Born in Rutland,Vermont -
Frederick Douglas
Douglass boarded a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. Anna Murray had provided him with some of her savings and a sailor's uniform. He carried identification papers obtained from a free black seaman. Douglass made his way to the safe house of abolitionist David Ruggles in New York in less than 24 hours.
Douglass was asked to tell his story at abolitionist meetings, after which he became a regular anti-slavery lecturer. -
Horace Mann
in 1838, he was crucial to the actual establishment of the first Normal Schools in Massachusetts. Mann knew that the quality of rural schools had to be raised, and that teaching was the key to that improvement. He also recognized that the corps of teachers for the new Common Schools were most likely to be women, and he argued forcefully for the recruitment of women into the ranks of teachers, often through the Normal Schools. These developments were all part of Mann's driving determination -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton held the famous Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848. At this meeting, the attendees drew up its “Declaration of Sentiments” and took the lead in proposing that women be granted the right to vote. -
Isaac Singer
His design also included a presser foot, enabling an unprecedented speed of 900 stitches per minute. Since the Singer sewing machine implemented some of the basic principles of inventor Elias Howe's sewing machine. -
Daniel Webster
Webster earned a reputation as one of the greatest ever to hold the office. His most notable achievement was the negotiation of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which settled a long-standing dispute over the Maine and New Brunswick boundary and ended a threat of war between Great Britain and the United States. Webster earned a reputation as one of the greatest ever to hold the office. -
Susan B Anthony
Anthony was inspired to fight for women’s rights while campaigning against alcohol. She denied a chance to speak at a temperance convention because she was a woman. Anthony later realized that no one would take women in politics seriously unless they had the right to vote. -
Dorothea Dix
She began teaching Sunday school at the East Cambridge Jail, a women’s prison. She discovered the appalling treatment of the prisoners, particularly those with mental illnesses, whose living quarters had no heat. She immediately went to court and secured an order to provide heat for the prisoners, along with other improvements. -
Cyrus McComick
in 1902 the McComick Havesting company joined with other companies to from Intetrnation Harvester company,with McComick's son cypus,jr, as it first president
