Eli Whitney

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    Eli Whitney

  • Birth

    Birth

    Eli Whitney is born in Wesboro Massachusets

  • Townshend Acts

    The Paralaiment passed the Townshend Acts on the colonists
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    British soldiers and colonists have a quarrel in Boston square

  • Tea Act

    Parlaiment passes the Tea Act
  • Boston Tea Party

    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

    Mill

    Samuel Slater opens first cotton mill
  • The Cotton Gin

    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

    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

    Washington

    George Washington Dies
  • $50,000 patent

    $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 Letter

    The president of the United States writes Whitney a letter of praise for his creation
  • Death

    Death

    Eli Whitney dies in New Haven Connecticut