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Eli Whitney
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Birth
Eli Whitney is born in Wesboro Massachusets -
Townshend Acts
The Paralaiment passed the Townshend Acts on the colonists -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers and colonists have a quarrel in Boston square -
Tea Act
Parlaiment passes the Tea Act -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists dress up as Mohawk Indians and dump $1,000,000 worth of tea into the harbor -
Intolerable Acts
Parlaiment passes the Intolerable Acts -
Money
Congress issues first continental money -
The War
Spain declares war on England -
Spain vs. England
Spain declares war on England -
Mill
Samuel Slater opens first cotton mill -
The Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney creates the world's first cotton gin -
Treaty
Jay's Treaty is signed by the US and Britain at the end of their war -
interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney becomes the first man to mass produce interchangeable parts that looked exactly similar to each other -
gun manufacturing
Eli Whitney establishes a successful gun manufacturing company -
the Gin in Use
Eli Whitney's cotton gin first comes sin to use -
Washington
George Washington Dies -
$50,000 patent
Eli Whitney receives a $50,000 patent for the right to use his cotton gin nationally -
Praise
All farmers who used Whitney's cotton gin sent him letters of praise for taking the taxing amounts of labor off their backs -
Cash Crop
Cotton was pronounced a cash crop thanks to Whitney's gin. -
The Letter
The president of the United States writes Whitney a letter of praise for his creation -
Death
Eli Whitney dies in New Haven Connecticut
