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| Samuel Slater | An ambitious British textile worker who outwitted the British by memorizing the plans for a spinning mill. In 1790 he built a mill in Pawtucket Rhode Island and began a revolution in US industry. |
| Eli Whitney | A Connecticut inventor who developed tools and machinery to make parts that were exactly alike. |
| Robert Fulton | He launched the Clermont, the first successful steamboat, on the Hudson River in 1807. |
| Samuel Colt | He invented and patented the six-shooter, the first gun that could be used effectively by a person on horseback. |
| Samuel Morse | In 1837 he invented the telegraph. The first message is sent from the US Supreme Court building to Baltimore, Maryland. |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | A Boston merchant who founded a textile mill at Waltham, Massachusetts. His mill combined all the steps of textile production. |
| Dorothea Dix | She was a social reformer who worked throughout her lifetime to improve life for people who were mentally ill. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | She was a homemaker in upstate New York who organized the women's rights meeting in Seneca Falls, New York. |
| Susan B. Anthony | She was a social reformer who was active in the antislavery, temperance, and women's rights movements. She was arrested for voting in the 1872 Presidential Election. |
| Emma Willard | One of the early reformers who believed that women should be allowed to study mathematics, science, and philosophy. She founded the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York. |
| Horace Mann | In 1837 he became head of the Massachusetts State Board of Education. For the next 11 years he worked with other reformers to establish a public education system. |
| Sir Thomas More | Writer from the 16th century who wrote a book called UTOPIA, which described a perfect place where all people were equal, prosperous, educated and wise. |
| Ann Lee | Founder of the Shakers, the most famous of the religious utopian communities. Shaker ideals included purity, love, peace and justice. |
