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Jackson Era-People
Jackson Era Review- Important People to Know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was considered the Father of the American Revolution? | Samuel Slater |
| Who invented the telegraph? | Samuel Morse |
| Who built a large textile mill in Massachusetts? | Francis Cabot Lowell |
| Who built the first successful steamboat? | Robert Fulton |
| Who founded American public schools? | Horace Mann |
| Who was known for helping the mentally ill? | Dorthea Dix |
| Who started the first American school for the deaf? | Thomas Gallaudet |
| Who was the leader of the Underground Railroad? | Harriet Tubman |
| Who was a leader of the abolitionist movement AND was a former slave? | Frederick Douglass |
| Who was an abolitionist and a leader in the women's rights movement? | Sojourner Truth |
| Which woman fought for the right to vote and was arrested for voting? | Susan B. Anthony |
| Which woman fought for women's rights and was a leader at the Seneca Falls Convention? | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Who was a white abolitionist? | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Which woman founded the Shakers? | Ann Lee |
| Who invented the Cotton Gin? | Eli Whitney |
| Who invented interchangeable parts? | Eli Whitney |
| Who invented the first steel plow? | John Deere |
| Who led a slave rebellion in Virginia? | Nat Turner |
| Who was Jackson's vice president and the leader of the south? | John C. Calhoun |
| Who was president for one month before he died of pneumonia? | William Henry Harrison |
| Who's nickname was Old Hickory? | Andrew Jackson |
| Who won the election of 1824 by winning a vote from the House of Representatives? | John Quincy Adams |
| Which president was nicknamed Old Kinderhook? | Martin Van Buren |