A profit is the money a business earns BEFORE all its expenses are paid.

Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. Other machines also helped farmers. What did Cyrus McCormick invent?

Samuel F.B. Morse invented the Morse code which was a code using dots and dashes to spell words. These were sent over the telephone.

What is it called when you make the exact same goods over and over again?

The period in time when there was a shift from making goods by hand to making them in a factory was called the Industrial Revolution.

Textile Mills were built on rivers because they needed the water to wash the cloths before they sold them.

The National Road lead from Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois.

The Erie Canal linked the Hudson River to Lake Erie. This made travel much cheaper and faster. The Erie Canal was not man-made.

The first true railroad in the United States was the Baltimore and Ohio or B&O. When it was first laid, they put out over 100 miles of track.

New towns sprung up along the railroad tracks. This drew more people to move the east.