American Inventions and Economic Concepts

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Samuel F.B. Morse

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Inventor of the telegraph

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Specialization

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The raising of one or more crops for sale in farming rather than a variety of foods

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Market Revolution

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This happened in the 1800s and changed the way people got the goods they needed

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Capitalism

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An economic system where private companies and individuals control the means of production and use them to make money

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Entrepreneur

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A business owner, the word comes from French meaning “to undertake”

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Telegraph

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An invention which carried messages tapped in code across copper wire

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John Deere

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Inventor of the steel plow

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Cyrus McCormick

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Inventor of the mechanical reaper

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Steamboat

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This invention allowed goods to be brought upstream against the water current

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Railroad

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The fastest way of transportation available to Americans in the 1840s-1860s