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| Frederick Douglass | a runaway slave who told many people about his escape from slavery |
| Samuel Slater | a British factory worker who brought the plans for a spinning machine to the U.S. |
| Robert Fulton | built a steamboat that he called the Clermont |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | built a textile mill where spinning, dyeing, and weaving all took place in the same factory |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which turned people against slavery |
| Horace Mann | believed schools should be supported by taxes and free to all children |
| Andrew Jackson | became President in 1828 because white men did not have to own property to vote |
| Manifest Destiny | the idea that the U.S. should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
| Mormons | a religious group who settled in Utah where no one would bother them |
| California | given to the U.S. by Mexico after the war between the U.S. and Mexico |
| Forty-niners | people who went to California to find gold |
| Abolitionists | people who worked to put an end to slavery |
| Sojourner Truth | a former slave who traveled speaking out against slavery |
| Freedom's Journal | first newspaper owned and written by Africans |
| The Liberator | a newspaper owned by William Lloyd Garrison and called for an end to slavery |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | fought for women's right to vote |
| Susan B. Anthony | fought for women'sright to vote |
