Rayanna's Padlet by Rayanna Gallegos

1790: Samuel Slater opens a water powered textile mill.

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In December 1790, Slater got the machines running. For the first time, workers would produce thread on water-powered machines. Slater spent part of his childhood in a factory. Once in Pawtucket, he hired children to sell their time and to work their new machines?

1793: Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.

2171058 — 2024-01-30 16:32:22 UTC

Eli Whitney's most famous invention was the cotton gin, which enabled the separation of seeds from cotton fibres. Built in 1793, the machine helped to make cotton a profitable export crop in the southern United States and further promoted the use of slavery for cotton cultivation.

1837: John Deere, invents the steel plow.

2171058 — 2024-01-30 16:34:31 UTC

Deere designed a plow of cast steel; it had a moldboard that allowed it to cut through heavy soil without having the soil constantly adhering to the plow. Made in 1837, the plow's cutting part was made from steel cut from an old sawmill blade and shaped by bending it over a log.

British Empire. Time Period: 1583-1945.

2171058 — 2024-01-30 16:40:01 UTC

Alongside the formal control that Britain exerted over its colonies, its dominance of much of world trade, and of its oceans, meant that it effectively controlled the economies of, and readily enforced its interests in, many regions, such as Asia and Latin America. It also came to dominate the Middle East.

Soviet Russia. Time Period: 1922-1991

2171058 — 2024-01-30 16:44:05 UTC

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991?

The Napoleonic Wars. Time Period: 1803-1815

2171058 — 2024-01-30 16:46:38 UTC

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.The Congress of Vienna, which was the settlement that followed the Napoleonic Wars, remade the map of Europe and set the stage for the emergence of Germany and Italy as unified states.