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Samuel Slater; He memorized the way that the British made machines and he brought the idea to America. He made our first cotton spinning machine.
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Eli Whitney; Allowed cotton to be processed 50 times faster, developed the cotton gin.
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Eli Whitney; contributed to the concept of interchangeable parts that were exactly alike and easily assembled or exchanged
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Robert Fulton; invented the first commercially successful steamboat in the United States.
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Henry McKinley; connected the east and west of the country.
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Governor Clinton; Connected the great lakes to the Atlantic Ocean to help increase trade.
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Cyrus McCormick; Increased the harvest by 4X.
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John Deere; allowed farming in the mid-west to become easier as it broke up the tough ground for crops and made plowing faster.
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Elias Howe; made sewing machine that could make 250 stitches a minute.
