Today we are continuing blog discussions. George Washington was named the General by the Second Continintal Congress and he had 14,000 men. Him and his men attacked on Christmas Eve at Trenten.The Industrial Revolution- Eli Whitney made the cotton gin. It seperates seeds from the cotton. His first invention was the cotton gin but he didn't paton it so he didn't make any money off of it. He later invented interchangable musket parts. He made most of his money in that. The government bought ten thousand muskets.Great Britain, France, and Spain were the big three that colonized and Portugal and the Netherlands also colonzied.1861-1865 was the Civil War. May 1865 the Conferete Soliders gave up. They thought it started because of slaves and cotton. 902,000 people died in the war.General Grant and Lee. Grant and Lee both gradutated from West Point. Lee was a Confederate General and Grant was for the Union. We now continued to watch America: The Story of Us.
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