THE WESTWARD EXPANSION.

INVENTIONS LEADING TO THE WESTWARD EXPANSION

COTTON GIN

• The cotton gin was a machine that seperated the cotton fibers from their seeds and disposed of the unused materials.
• This helped the western expansion because allowed more cotton to be produced and gave u.s reason to expand west.
• The cotton gin seperated all of the seed so they could be used again for regrowth of cotton.
• This was much easier than before the cotton gin because it would take more workers to get the same result as the gin.
• While with the new cotton gins the seeds are saved, there are less workers, and it takes less than half the time.

THE TELEGRAPH

• The telegraph was a machine that used morse code to send messages to faraway destinations in about an hour.
• This was much easier than sending the message through the nail which would take about fourntimess as long
• Before this invention people had to wait a long time just to send messeges back and fourth.
• While once the telegraph was introduced it only took about an hour compared to a week to receive.
• The telegraph affected the westward expansion because it helped the railroads receive more efficant news and it could tell reports of the weather.

THE STEAMBOAT

• A steam boat is a boat thats main propurlusion(act of pushing or moving) is steam.
• Before the steamboat there were only rafts flat rafts, and things that didn't have moaters or ways to steer the raft.
• After the steamboat there was easier way of steering, and much faster than a raft.
• It helped the westward expansion because it could travel up stream, could go two, ways, and was cheaper than railroads.

RAILROADS

• A form of rail transport of a series of vehicals that travel on the road.
• Before the railroads were made travel consisted of stage coaches which took 4 times as long as a train would. Also cost a lot.
• After they were made goods were taken across the country much faster, the rails never froze, and much cheaper
• This helped the western expansion because it was much faster than horse drawn train, and the rails never froze causing setbacks

PATH TOOK BY U.S TO GET TO THE WEST

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• The rails were much cheaper than taking a horse drawn train(railroad).
• Cotton was made twice as fastbwas before the cotton gin.