Names
The Mexican dictator who fought the Texans in Texas's struggle for Independence
Who was Santa Anna
First American to develop a high pressure steam engine
Who was Oliver Evans
Taught traditional methods of learning music
Who was Lowell Mason
Invented the steel plow
Who was John Deere
Congregational missionary who attempted to return shipwrecked sailors back to Japan
Who was Samuel Williams
Discovered the South Pass through the Rocky Mountains
Who was Jedediah Smith
Had the farthest-reaching ministry of any evangelist of the Methodist movement
Who was William Taylor
Known as the Pathfinder of the Seas
Who was Matthew Maury
Sent to attack Veracruz by ship and then press on toward Mexico City
Who was Winfield Scott
Assisted California settlers in the Bear Flag Revolt
Who was John C Frémont
Promoted more humane treatment for the mentally ill
Who was Dorothea L Dix
British sailor who discovered the Hawaiian Islands
Who was James Cook
Best-known evangelist of the Second Great Awakening
Who was Charles G Finney
Father of the American Factory System
Who was Samuel Slater
The first white women to journey west of the Rockies
Who were Eliza Spalding and Narcissa Whitman
Considered to have written the first truly American fiction
Who was James Fenimore Cooper
American author who developed the detective story and the mystery genre
Who was Edgar Allan Poe
Invented a much-improved sewing machine
Who was Elias Howe
Medical missionary sent to work with Native Americans in the Northwest
Who was Marcus Whitman
Transcendentalist author who wrote about his experiences at Walden Pond
Who was Henry David Thoreau
Founded the first Sunday school in America
Who was Catherine Ferguson
Black-American preacher in Virginia and North Carolina
Who was John Chavis
Led the Texans in their struggle for independence; elected the first president of an independent Texas
Who was Sam Houston
Methodist circuit rider who accepted Christ in a camp meeting
Who was Peter Cartwright
Who was Sojourner Truth