Inventors
This person invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Samuel B Morse invented this.
What is the telegraph?
The Eerie Canal linked the Great Lakes to what?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This is a human made waterway.
What is a canal?
1817
New York's governor Dewitt Clinton began work on the Eerie Canal.
This person invented the steam engine.
Who was Robert Fulton?
This was the name of the first American locomotive.
What was the Tom Thumb?
It took this long to complete the canal.
What is 8 years?
A section of water held by two gates.
What is a lock?
1807
Robert Fulton used a steam engine to power The Clermont.
This person invented the first American locomotive.
Who was Peter Cooper?
This is the system of making parts that are exactly alike.
What are interchangeable parst?
The canal is this long.
What is 363 miles?
A change in manufacturing came to be called?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
1814
Francis Cabot Lowell built a mill in Massachusetts.
This person invented the mechanical reaper.
Who was Cyrus McCormick?
The invention that separated seeds from the cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
The Eerie Canal let people transport these two things.
What are people and goods?
A railroad engine.
What is a locomotive?
1793
Moses Brown built first textile mill in Rhode Island.
This person invented the strong steel plow.
Who was John Deere?
This British immigrant stole the secret for developing textile mills.
Who is Samuel Slater?
It took this many days to ship goods from Buffalo to New York City.
What is 8 days?
The idea that the United States should stretch from The Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
1832
Cyrus McCormick invented the eaper.