| A | B |
| Samuel Slater | built first factory in America |
| Eli Whitney | invented cotton gin/interchangeable parts |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | built first cotton to cloth textile mill |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented horsedrawn reaper |
| John Deere | invented steel plow |
| Robert Fulton | invented steamboat |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | leader of Seneca Falls Convention |
| Susan B. Anthony | joined Stanton's movement |
| Horace Mann | education reformer |
| Dorothea Dix | mental health reformer |
| Frances Willard | Woman's Christian Temperance Union |
| Stephen Austin | led settlers to Texas |
| Santa Anna | president of Mexico, military leader |
| Sam Houston | led Texas revolt, 1st president of Texas |
| Martin Van Buren | President opposed annexation of Texas |
| James K. Polk | President annexed Texas, Mexican Cession, & Oregon Territory |
| Zachary Taylor | US military leader in Mexican War |
| Davy Crockett | famous pioneer killed at the Alamo |
| Susanna Dickinson & Juan Sequin | survived the Alamo |
| Marcus & Narcissa Whitman | Oregon missionaries |
| John Fremont | mapped the Oregon Trail |