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Inventions(US1.8c)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |