JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
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Jo Anderson
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Robert Fulton
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Cyrus McCormick
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Eli Whitney
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Detailed explanation-1: -Career in the United States (1806–1815) In 1806, Fulton returned to the United States. In 1807, he and Robert R. Livingston built the first commercially successful steamboat, North River Steamboat (later known as Clermont).
Detailed explanation-2: -To build an efficient, reliable steamboat, Fulton used a special English steam engine. The ship’s bottom was flat and its stern was square. Clermont made its debut on August 17, 1807, steaming upriver from New York to Albany, and it soon entered into commercial service.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1769, Scotsman James Watt patented an improved version of the steam engine that powered its way into the Industrial Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1802, after a submarine he designed for France’s Napoleon failed, Fulton met Robert R. Livingston, a wealthy American statesman fascinated with steamboats. Fulton agreed to build a steamboat that Livingston would finance.
Detailed explanation-5: -Robert Fulton (1765-1815) was a renaissance man; during his long career as an inventor and entrepreneur, his accomplishments included the invention of an operational submarine and, most notably, a commercially successful steamboat.