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Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. This made communication easier.
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a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process
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After more than two years of digging by Governor Clinton finally opened the eerie canal
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The founders intended to appeal to the 300,000 free blacks in the North of the United States
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was the first American-built steam locomotive to operate on a common-carrier railroad
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baltimore and ohio company
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an organized group of workers, usually employed at factories or other centralized locations, take possession of the workplace by "sitting down" at their stations,
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was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia
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trade union of new york is formed making trade between unions possible
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could harvest wheat west very quickly
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Steel was scarce in the area, so Deere fashioned a moldboard out of the second-hand blade.
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A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the middle third of the 19th century.
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A famine in Ireland in the nineteenth century caused by the failure of successive potato crops in the 1840s.
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Why are you wasting your time over a knitting machine? Take my advice, try something that will pay. Make a sewing machine.” The customer replied, “It can't be done,” but Howe wasn't so sure.
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the rise of “King Cotton” had an immediate multiplier effect on the national economy.
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an American political party that operated on a national basis during the mid-1850s
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