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Inventor of the cotton gin: removed seeds from the cotton fibers which increased the production of cotton and slavery Inventor of interchangeable parts: unifrom pieces that can be made in large quantities to replace other identical pieces |
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| a method of communication that used electric signals to transmit messages |
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| Inventor of the sewing machine |
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| Connects the Hudson River with Lake Erie joining the East with the Midwest |
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| Inventor of the steamboat named Clermont |
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| launched the factory system and opened a textile plant in Massachusetts |
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| time period beginning in Great Britian in the 1800s A change from an agricultural (farming) society to one based on industry and manufacturing goods..the Industrial Revolution expanded into the U.S. starting mainly in New England's region |
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| a system for transmitting messages that uses a series of dots and dashes to represent the letters of the alphabet |
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| Morse Code...invented by Samuel Morse |
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| worked in a factory spinning cotton into thread and memorized the spinning machine and duplicated it in the U.S. |
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| Bessemer Steel Process by Henry Bessemer |
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allows for mass production of steel so steel could now be made cheaper which fuled the Industrial Revolution |
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| McCormick Reaper (Cyrus McCormick) |
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| mechanical machine to cut wheat which allowed farmers to speed up the process of harvesting wheat , increasing production |
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| invented the steel-tipped plow to easily cut grass |
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immigrants: mainly Irish and Germans young women & children unskilled workers |
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