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STAAR Review: Early Republic/Industrial Revolution-Questions with Correct Answers/ Verified
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STAAR Review: Early Republic/Industrial Revolution-Questions withCorrect Answers/ Verified
Samuel Slater
First to start textile industry in America after stealing secrets of textile mills from Great
Britain.
Francis Cabot Lowell
Developed mill towns, employed young women and provided boardinghouses for workers
Eli Whitney
Invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts
Robert Fulton
Commercialized the use of steamboats
Samuel B Morse
Invented the telegraph
John Deere
Invented the steel plow
Cyrus McCormick
Invented the mechanical reaper which cuts grain.
, Sir Henry Bessemer
Bessemer Steel Process
Free Enterprise Economy
Characterized by private ownership of business and limited government interference
Mechanical Reaper
Cuts grain 6X faster increasing food production
Cotton Gin
Cleaned cotton 50X faster
Telegraph
Improved communication sending coded messages along wire lines
Erie Canal
Man made river that connected the Great Lakes and Hudson River
Steamboats
Allowed easier travel upstream rivers- first commercialized in the U.S. by Robert Fulton.
Steel Plow
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