Dates and Times | Parts/Machines | People (thing they are known for and date) |
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1831
When was the horse-drawn reaper made?
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Helped clean cotton
What did the cotton gin do?
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Steel plow, 1837
John Deere
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1825
When did the Erie Canal open?
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Guns
Eli Whitney was asked to make 10,000 _____ for the U.S. government.
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Horse-drawn reaper, 1831
Cyrus McCormick
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1793
When was the machine used to clean cotton invented?
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Interchangeable parts
What type of part became helpful in manufacturing?
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Cotton gin, 1793
Eli Whitney
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1807
When did the record trip for New York City to Albany, NY via boat happen? What year?
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Paddlewheel
What was special about Robert Fulton's new invention/improvement on something that already existed?
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Steamboat w/ paddlewheel, 1807
Robert Fulton
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1811
What year did construction start on the most heavily used road during this time (that we have studied)?
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Francis Cabot Lowell; cotton-spinning machine and power looms
Whose mill had two machines that changed manufacturing in the texile industry? What were the two machines?
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Lowell Mills, 1814
Francis Cabot Lowell (+ what city and what two machines)
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