USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The steamboat was improved by the entrepreneur Robert Fulton . It eventually provided faster river transportation connecting Southern plantations and farms to Northern industries and Western territories. The steam locomotive provided faster land transportation.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first successful steamboat was the Clermont, which was built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807.

Detailed explanation-3: -He was interested in the recently-invented steam engine, and thought it could be used to power ships. Fulton’s vision was not original; many others had entered the field, and the unfortunate inventor John Fitch had built a working steamship already.

Detailed explanation-4: -Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin in 1794 (his idea was based on earlier gins and also on ideas from other people, including Greene and enslaved laborers; some say that these were the rightful inventors of the cotton gin).

Detailed explanation-5: -First, the machine helped to boost productivity and increased cotton usage. Second, the cotton gin helped to increase production of cotton in the United States, and made cotton into a profitable crop. Third, the machine helped to strengthen the United States’ economy and laid the foundations for the slave trade.