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An American inventor who developed the cotton gin and interchangeable parts that were exactly alike and easily assembled or exchanged

• Cyrus McCormick
• Eli Whitney
• Thomas Jefferson
• Francis Cabot Lowell

Invented by Cyrus McCormick
A device that cuts grain

• Mechanical Reaper
• Cotton Gin
• Loom
• Steam Engine

senator that persuaded congress to adopt the Missouri Compromise; it permitted Maine to be admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state

• Thomas Jefferson
• Cyrus McCormick
• Eli Whitney
• Henry Clay

a channel that is dug across land and filled with water

• Corduroy Roads
• Turnpike
• Canal
• River

roads made of sawed off logs laid side by side

• Corduroy Road
• Turnpike
• Canal
• Thruway

toll roads

• interstate
• canal
• thruway
• turnpike

laws that controlled every aspect of a slaves life

• Slave Codes
• Discrimination
• Racism
• Black Codes

used to remove seeds from cotton fiber; invented by Eli Whitney

• Mechanical Reaper
• Cotton Gin
• Loom
• Factory System

denial of equal rights or equal treatment to certain groups of people

• discrimination
• slave codes
• racism

device that used electrical signals to send messages; invented by Samuel Morse

• Telephone
• Cotton Gin
• Morse Code
• telegraph