| Contribution | Important figure | Year |
|---|
| Brought British textile technology to America | |
| Invented the cotton gin | |
| Invented the steam boat | |
| 1st internationally succesful American author: wrote Knickerbocker's History of New York | |
| New York Governor who became the driving force behind the construction of the Erie Canal | |
| Founder of the Troy Female Seminary | |
| Self proclaimed 'God's Plowman'; helped start the 2nd Great Awakening | |
| Author of Last of the Mohicans | |
| Standardized American English with his dictionary | |
| 'Father of Modern Revivalism'; president of Oberlin College,Ohio | |
| Founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints(Mormonism) | |
| Creator of the mechanical reaper of his namesake | |
| sparked widespread education reform as Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education | |
| Painter & advocate for Native Americans and conservation;first proposed the creation of a National Park | |
| Creator of the best selling grade school reader of his namesake | |
| Poet; Founder of the Transcendentalist movement: author of the Oversoul | |
| Inventor of the steel plow | |
| Transcendentalist;feminist;first editor of The Dial | |
| leading reformer of mental asylums | |
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