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Inventions(US1.8c)
Term | Definition |
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cotton gin | increased the production of cotton, thus increasing the need for slave labor to cultivate and pick the cotton |
reaper | increased productivity of the American farmer |
steamboat | provided faster river transportation that connected Southern plantations and farms to Northern industries and Western territories |
steam locomotive | provided faster land transportation |
Eli Whitney | invented cotton gin |
Jo Anderson/Cyrus McCormick | invented reaper |
Robert Fulton | entrepreneur that improved the steamboat |
inventor | someone who is the first to think of or make something |
entrepreneur | someone who organizes resources to bring a new or better good or service to market in hopes of earning a profit |
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