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Steamboat
Boat with a steam engine -
Textile Mills
where textiles, or types of cloth, are produced or processed into finished products -
Sewing Machine
Help turn cloth into clothing -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney created the cotton gin machine that increased the production of cotton -
Interchangeable Parts
Are parts that can be switched in and out of a machine -
National Road
as the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837 -
Erie Canal
Clinton's Big Ditch The Erie Canal is famous in song and story. Proposed in 1808 and completed in 1825 -
Mechanical Reaper
Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin, Cyrus McCormick invented another significant agricultural invention that revolutionized farming: the mechanical reaper. Prior to this invention, reaping was a painstaking process -
Steel Plow
So Farmers could plow larger pieces of land
