Multiple Choice
Match each description with the item below.
-Stephen Foster
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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