| A | B |
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| Samuel Slater | a British factory worker that brought plans for a spinning wheel to the US |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | built a textile mill |
| Robert Fulton | built a steamboat that he called the Clermont |
| Horace Mann | believed schools should be free and open to all children and should be supported by taxes |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", whihc turned many people against slavery |
| Frederick Douglass | a runaway slave |
| Andrew Jackson | became president in 1828 in the first election in which all white men could vote whether they owned land or not |
| Manifest Destiny | the idea that the US should stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| The Mormons | a religious group that settled in what is now Utah |
| The US purchased California and more land in the West after it won a war with... | Mexico |
| Forty- niners | people who went to California to search for gold. |
| Abolitionists | people who worked to put an end to slavery |
| Sojourner Truth | a former slave who traveled across the US speaking out against slavery |
| Trail of Tears | the long, painful journey of the Cherokee people after Andrew Jackson forced them off their land |
