1739 Eli Whitney Research Paper

New growth, inventions, and expansions of the north and south. There has been a new invention of steamboats for more, and better transportation. Steamboats could carry goods, and passengers faster along inland waterways canals faster than flatboats or sail powered boats. Steamboats could Carry quite a bit more goods, and people because steamboats were working off of steam so it wasn't powered by man(appleby 312). Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin that removed the seeds from cotton fiber which makes it easier to make cloth. In 1739 Eli Whitney of Massachusetts invented the cotton gin. New inventions that were helpful, the cotton gin was a simple machine that quickly and efficiently removed the seeds from the cotton fiber and that made it more

efficient to make cotton for clothes. A cotton gin was a machine that had the seeds removed out of the cotton fiber and made it easier to make cloths so the people making the cotton can take the seeds out quicker without taking out the seeds with their hand(appleby 306). When the people made the Erie Canal it took time but finally the Erie Canal was completed so they can move west. Another purpose of the Erie Canal was it would connected Albany on the Hudson River with buffalo on lake Erie. Erie canal would connect through places mostly buffalo Albany and the Hudson River(Appleby 315). This is how all the people in 1700-1786 made jobs more efficient and easier to do.