Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 73

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-Horace Mann

• A)invented the telegraph
• B)invented the sewing machine
• C)with Boston Associates, formed the Boston Manufacturing Company
• D)earned a medical degree, a first of its kind
• E)was a piano maker and immigrant
• F)helped found schools to train teachers and promoted the idea of free public education
• G)was the first clipper ship
• H)improved the steel plow, thereby making it possible to farm the Great Plains
• I)was the first commercial steamboat, built by Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton
• J)was a Jewish tailor who made work pants during the gold rush and would become the origin story of a major brand
• K)was a famous composer whose song "Oh! Susanna" emerged as a national favorite
• L)used his memory to bring industrial technology from Britain to the United States

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