New Ideas and Inventions
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raderrobyn on March 6, 2011
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Lesson 4
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 a section of water is held by two gates | lock |
| a himan made waterway that connects bodies of water | canal |
| What did the National Road to | it helped ship goods east , connecting Maryland and present day West Virginia |
| What offered faster and cheaper transportation | boats |
| The Erie Canal linked thge Great Lakes to | the Atlantic |
| The canal halped NY be a | center of trade |
| The canal was replaced by | the steam engine |
| American inventor who used steam engine to power his boat | Robert Fulton |
| locomotives, also known as | railroad engines |
| Who built the first American locomotive | Peter Cooper |
| new inventions and forms of transportation that allowed people to use machines instead of tools to make large quantities of goods was called | The Industrial Revolution |
| The Industrial Revolution began in | Britain |
| a British mill worker who memorized every detail the complicated machines and sneaked aboard a ship to the US | Samuel Slater |
| Who along with Slater built the first American textile mill in Pawtucket Rhode ISland? | Moses Brown |
| Who built a mill in Waltham, Massachusetts? | Francis Cabot Lowell |
| Who invented a cotton gin? | Eli Whitney |
| a machine that removed seeds from cotton | cotton gin |
| parts that exactly alike | interchangeable parts |
| What made mass production possible? | interchangeable parts |
| Who invented a mechannical reaper for harvesting grain? | Cyrus Mc Cormick |
| Who invented a strong steel plow to cut through the heavy soil in the Midwest? | John Deere |
| Who invented the telegraph? | Samuel F.B. Morse |
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