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| Cyrus McCormick | He built a model of a reaper, and then in 1847, he built a reaper factory in Chicago. A reaper could cut 28 times more grain than a single man using a scythe (tool with a long, curved blade). |
| Eli Whitney | He invented the Cotton Gin, a machine that separated cotton fibers from its seeds. Using a cotton gin, a single worker could clean as much cotton as 50 laborers working by hand. |
| Elias Howe | : He developed the sewing machine. |
| Francis Cabott Lowell | He and his partners built the first American textile mill. The factory combined spinning and weaving machinery in the same building. |
| Immigrant | A person who moves from one country into another country. (Such movement is called “immigration”.) |
| Industrial Revolution | The dramatic changes in economies brought about by the use of machines to do work formerly done by hand. The Industrial Revolution began in England in the late 1700’s and spread to America and the rest of Europe. |
| Plantation | A large area of privately owned land where crops were grown through the labor of workers, usually slaves, who lived on the land. |
| Robert Fulton | Proved that steam boats were practical by racing the steamboat Clemont upstream on New York’s Hudson River. |
| The National Road | In 1806, Congress funded the construction of a “National Road” across the Appalachians. Its purpose was to tie the western states with the East. Funding was cut for this road in 1816 by President James Monroe who thought that spending federal money for improvements within a state was unconstitutional. |
| Agrarian | A person who favors and agricultural way of life and government policies that support agricultural interests. |
| Cotton Gin | A hand-operated machine that cleans seeds and other unwanted materials from cotton. |
| Deforestation | the clearing away of forests |
| Industrialist | This is a person whose wealth comes from the ownership of industrial businesses and who favors government policies that support industry. |
