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Inventor of the steamboat
Robert Fulton
Inventor of the spinning jenny
Samuel Slater
Inventor responsible for introducing textile mills to Massachusetts
Francis Cabot Lowell
This group of immigrants was responsible for helping build the Erie Canal
Irish immigrants
This group of immigrants moved to the West seeking gold, helping build the railroads and the Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese immigrants
This group of immigrants settled in the Midwest searching for fertile farmland
Swedish immigrants
This group of immigrants fled political oppression and settled in the Midwest
German immigrants
This reformer sought to improve mental health facilities and provide more help for persons with disabilities
Dorothea Dix
This reformer sought to improve conditions for prisoners, providing better care and opportunities to improve in society
Eliza Farnham
This reformer sought to promote public education for all children
Horace Mann
These women rights leaders led the Seneca Falls Convention, in which they sought for equal rights and the right to vote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
She was the "conductor" of the Underground Railroad, helping hundreds of slaves escape to the North and Canada
Harriet Tubman
She was an abolitionist author who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
She was a former slave who traveled across the country to speak about the evils of slavery, promoting an end to slavery
Sojourner Truth
He was a former slave who wrote and published The North Star and wrote and spoke about ending slavery
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist who wrote and published the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
