Name That Invention
Led to increased food supplies for a growing country
What is the mechanical reaper?
How efficiently something can be made; the rate of output per unit of input.
What is productivity?
Responsible for revolutionizing cotton production with the invention of the Cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This invention removed seeds from cotton fibers.
What is the cotton gin?
Human-made waterway used to carry ships or irrigate crops.
What is a canal?
Invented the telegraph that used electrical signals sent through a wire quickly to send messages.
Who is Samuel Morse?
This invention increased the speed of information traveled across long distances.
What is the telegraph?
A person who takes the risk to organize resources to produce a new or better good or service in hopes of gaining a profit.
What is an entrepreneur?
Enslaved African American man improved how grain was harvested by using the invention called the mechanical reaper.
Who is Jo Anderson?
This invention increased the speed people and goods traveled on land and water.
What is the steam engine?
The United States addition of territory and migration of people to the west during the the 19th century.
What is westward expansion?
Invented the steam locomotive using the steam engine to power locomotives and give them strength and speed to pull long trains of cars traveling along railroads.
This invention led to more settlements in the West.
What is the telegraph?
An official document that prevents an inventors workfrom being taken or copied without permission.
What is a patent?
Invented the Steamboat and used a steam engine to power boats that carried cargo and passengers.
Jo Fitch