| A | B |
|---|
| Benjamin Rush | spoke out for education for women |
| Eli Whitney | first to use interchangeable parts |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| Samuel Slater | brought first textile factory plans to U.S. |
| children | laborers in Rhode Island system |
| young unmarried women | laborers in Lowell system |
| James Hargreaves | invented spinning jenny |
| Richard Arkwright | improved spinning machine |
| nativists | people who opposed unlimited immigration |
| Irish Roman Catholics | people who immigrated because of potato famine |
| German Roman Catholics | people who immigrated because of political upheaval in Germany |
| Thomas Jefferson | president who authorized National Road construction in 1811 |
| De Witt Clinton | convinced New York to build Erie Canal |
| James Watt | invented practical steam engine |
| Robert Fulton | inventor who built and ran first successful steamboat |
| Peter Cooper | built and raced Tom Thumb, first steam locomotive |
| Henry Clay | proposed American System in which money from protective tariffs built roads, etc. |
| James Monroe | presided over Era of Good Feelings |
| Washington Irving | first American writer to receive world fame |
| James Fenimore Cooper | American writer about Indians and frontier |
