Invented Levi jeans, Important because thy were stronger, so they didn't break while mining gold.

1st cotton spinning mill. Helped bring the industrial revolution to the U.S. MEMORIZED IT

First factory that combined machines that would spin cotton into yarn with power looms. Cloth was able to be made faster.

Cotton gin and interchangeable parts.Cotton gin helped make massive growth in production of cotton. Interchangeable parts: conducts could make identical items at the same time

Steamboat. Importance: ability to travel up and down the river, against the current water.

Erie Canal (not a name)

Connected the Hudson River to lake Erie and the rest of the great lakes, making it much easier for transport goods from the Midwest to the East Coast

Moved people and good more quickly, less costly, over greater distances, connected people nation wide, allowing farmers and factory owners to ship their goods all over the country.

Telegraph: much faster to communicate, because signals could travel quickly through any location that also had wires.

mechanical reaper, could cut as much as grain in 2 hours as two or three men could cut by hand.

steel plow. made it much easier for farmers of the Great Plains to plow their heavy, sticky soil.

sewing machine. moved the process of making clothes from the home into factories and now clothing could be sold in stores.

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Levi Strauss	Invented Levi jeans, Important because thy were stronger, so they didn't break while mining gold.
Samuel Slayter	1st cotton spinning mill. Helped bring the industrial revolution to the U.S. MEMORIZED IT
Francis Cabot Lowell	First factory that combined machines that would spin cotton into yarn with power looms. Cloth was able to be made faster.
Eli Witney	Cotton gin and interchangeable parts.Cotton gin helped make massive growth in production of cotton. Interchangeable parts: conducts could make identical items at the same time
Robert Fulton	Steamboat. Importance: ability to travel up and down the river, against the current water.
Erie Canal (not a name)	Connected the Hudson River to lake Erie and the rest of the great lakes, making it much easier for transport goods from the Midwest to the East Coast
Railroads	Moved people and good more quickly, less costly, over greater distances, connected people nation wide, allowing farmers and factory owners to ship their goods all over the country.
Samuel Morse	Telegraph: much faster to communicate, because signals could travel quickly through any location that also had wires.
Cyrus McCormick	mechanical reaper, could cut as much as grain in 2 hours as two or three men could cut by hand.
John Deere	steel plow. made it much easier for farmers of the Great Plains to plow their heavy, sticky soil.
Elias Howe	sewing machine. moved the process of making clothes from the home into factories and now clothing could be sold in stores.

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