This 8-slide illustrative PowerPoint teaches students the new inventions that aided industry in the North of America during the 1800s. It describes the spinning jenny, sewing machine, lightweight steel plow, mechanical reaper, telegraph (& morse code), steampowered locomotive engine, and clipper ships.

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I have been teaching grades 7 and 8 Language Arts and Social Studies at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts in Ventura, California since 2001. I have also briefly taught high school ESL (grades 9-12), and I spent one month teaching English in Moscow, Russia.
