<span>carved out several east-to-west trails that helped settlers move west</span>
Hypatia is famous for being the greatest mathematician and astronomer of her time, for being the leader of the Neoplatonist school of philosophy in Alexandria, for spectacularly overcoming the suffering a violent death at the hands of ignorant zealots.
The best choice would be Eli Whitney
No, the colonists started the thing by being jer ks and throwing snowballs and other things toward the British soldiers
