Great Thinkers Chapter 11

First textile mill in America. Samuel Slater First textile mill in America.

Invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts. Eli Whitney Invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.

Invented the steamboat. Robert Fulton Invented the steamboat.

Invented telegraph. “Morse Code.” Samuel F.B. Morse Invented telegraph. “Morse Code.”

Invented a lightweight plow. John Deere Invented a lightweight plow.

Cyrus McCormick Invented mechanical reaper/threshing machine.

James Monroe 5th president of the U.S. Monroe Doctrine, 1823. (No more colonization in the Western Hemisphere.)

Henry Clay Known for coming up with the American System. Instrumental in formulating Missouri Compromise of 1820.