Since the beginning of our race, we humans have distinguished ourselves by our ability to think and survive, to reason, and to build and fashion tools that help make our life easier. Technology in the first 70 years of our nations history started off very rapidly. One of the most important developments of this time was our transportation methods, this started off with the steam engine.         The first practical steam engine (one that could not only …showed first 75 words of 727 total…

…showed last 75 words of 727 total…specialize in what it could do best. The Northeast and the Middle States produced finished goods in their factories, the West grew wheat and corn, while the South specialized in cotton, tobacco, rice, and sugar. All of the regions were working together to make industry successful.         It is my opinion that the first 70 years of our history as a country came the most important inventions that set our country's economical, political, and social situation today.