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Date Posted: 20:05:27 09/30/02 Mon
Author: Big Lora
Subject: Technology in America

Technology in America
I. England tried to keep their technology from America
A. did not export machinery
B. did not allow skilled machinist to immigrate to America
a. finally some machinist came to America
1. Samuel Slater
i. made a spinning mill in America (learned in England)
II. America produced inventers
A. Oliver Evans
a. automatic flour mill, a card making machine
b. improvements on the stem engine
B. Eli Whitney
a. Cotton Gin
1. took seeds out of the cotton so it could be sold
b. production of muskets in mass numbers
2. came up with a system in which people would make one part of the gun and another person would put all the parts together to make the gun
i. adopted by many other industries
III. North and South
A. North became very industrious
B. South was agriculture (most Cotton)

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