New Technology In America

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Technology in America was not wanted for a very long time by the Republicans, but because the times changed and people needed them, new technological advances started pouring in from different places in the world, especially Britain. Immigrants who came to America brought their ideas with them and developed many inventions in their time there. The influx of new advances from the outside world made many Americans also come out with their own inventions and ideas. A cause of new technology was the invention of Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, a machine used to separate seeds from the cotton. This made cotton planting much more profitable and popular especially in the South. As a result slavery, that was expected to die down because tobacco planting

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