| A | B |
|---|
| Samuel Slater | brought plans for spinning machine to the U.S. |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | his textile mill had spinning, dying and weaving taking place in the same factory |
| Robert Fulton | built the steamship Clermont |
| Horace Mann | started the public school system |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book against slavery |
| Frederick Douglass | he was a runaway slave who spoke about slavery |
| Andrew Jackson | responsible for moving Cherokees off their land-the Trail of Tears |
| Mormons | they moved to Utah to practice their religion |
| Sojournor Truth | she was a slave who traveled across the U.S. speaking out against slavery |
| Industrial Revolution | a time during the late 1700s and early 1800s when new inventions changed the way people lived, worked and traveled |
| textile mill | a factory where fibers such as cotton and wool are woven into cloth |
| mass production | a way to produce large amounts of goods at one time |
| interchangeable part | identical parts made by machine so if one part breaks, a new one can be installed |
| transport | to carry |
| canal | a human-made waterway |
| locomotive | a railroad engine |
| sectionalism | regional loyalty |
| states' rights | the idea that individual states could have final authority over the national government |
| secede | to leave the Union |
| ruling | a decision |
| manifest destiny | the belief that the certain future of the U.S. as to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean |
| dictator | a leader who has total authority |
| forty-niner | a gold-seeker who went to California in 1849 |
| reform | a change for the better |
| public school | a school paid for by taxes and open to all children |
| abolish | to end |
| abolitionist | a person who wants to end slavery |
| equality | the same rights for all people |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
