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  Boat with a steam engine
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  where textiles, or types of cloth, are produced or processed into finished products
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  Help turn cloth into clothing
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  Eli Whitney created the cotton gin machine that increased the production of cotton
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  Are parts that can be switched in and out of a machine
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  as the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837
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  Clinton's Big Ditch The Erie Canal is famous in song and story. Proposed in 1808 and completed in 1825
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  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
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  So Farmers could plow larger pieces of land