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Steam Engines
James Watt
powered by steam
Western expansion -
Factory Systems
Samuel Slator
Manufacturing in one location -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
Removes cotton from its seeds
Increased cotton production -
Interchangable Parts
Eli Whitney
Replacement parts
Faster, cheaper, easier repaurs -
National Roads
Albert Gallatin
Maryland to Virginia
Aided settlement of new areas
Allowed people to move about the country easier -
Steamboats
Invented by Robert Fulton
Took passengers and cargo down the Mississippi -
Erie Canals
John C Calhoun
Improved transportation
Westward expansion -
Lowell Mills
Fraces Cabot Lowell
job opportunities for unmarried women -
Steel Plow
John Deere
turned heavy, gummy sod easily
farming was less physically demanding -
Telegraph
Samuel F. B. Morse
communicating through tapping that can be translated
faster communication
connected the country -
Sewing Machine
Elias Howe/ James Hargreaves
1764/1846
weave and sew clothes
helped clothing production -
Transcontinental Railroads
Central Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad
connected the Antlantic and Pacific coasts
improved transportation
