If you take a look at history, one event leads to another, which leads to another, and so on. This is especially true during the Industrial Revolution. So let’s take a trip back to 1793, after Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a machine that removed seeds from cotton fiber. This is when he a revolutionary discovery that would change the business industry forever. He learned that he could use interchangeable parts when building guns, which made the building process quicker and easier to assemble and easier to repair. Using interchangeable parts meant that he could produce a large amount of the guns for a lower price. In 1814, Francis Cabot Lowell made it even easier to make goods. He took all the steps of making clothing and put them into one building. This was the first textile plant and was the start of the …show more content…
Many people preferred riding in a boat than a wagon because it was more comfortable and carried more goods. But traveling by river had its cons too. One of the reasons was that many people needed to travel east and west, not north and south, the direction the rivers were in. Another reason was that when people were traveling upstream, the barge was often very slow because it was going against the current. But thanks to Robert Fulton, the creation of the steam boat changed this. The steamboat made trips extremely faster and cheaper, and by 1850 more that 700 steamboats were in use carrying goods and people up and down the river. There was still a problem though. The boats could still only travel north and south. But after more than two years of construction, the first canal in the United States was opened on October 26, 1825 and it connected Albany to Buffalo. Canals were so successful that by 1850, there was more than 3600 miles of canals in the United States. These canals also lowered the cost of shipping goods and connected the different regions of the United