| A | B |
|---|
| Innovation | New ideas or methods-in industry and technology began to change American lives. |
| Elias Howe | 1846 invented the sewing machine. |
| Robert Fulton | Develooped the Clermont, a reliable steamboat. |
| clipper ships | 1840s had sleek huls and tall sails-were the pride of the open seas. |
| Peter Cooper | Designed and built the first American steam locomotive in 1830 called the Tom Thumb. |
| transformed | changed |
| telegraph | An apparatus that used electric signals to transmit messages. |
| Samel Morse | American inventor who sent messages instantly along wires. |
| Morse code | A code of dots and dashes representing letters of the alphabet. |
| John Deere | Invented the steel-tipped plow in 1837. |
| Cyrus McCormick | Designed and constructed the mechanical reaper. |
