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Slaves usually consisted of African women and men between the ages of 18 and 35, although children were enslaved as well. They were sold and forced to work at long hours and had no rights to vacations, wages, marriages, or property. Some slave owners would threaten to beat their slaves if they resisted or refused to do the labor they were ordered to do.
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Jethro Tull invented the seed drill. His seed drill would sow seed in uniform rows and cover up the seed in the rows. Up to that point, sowing seeds was done by hand by scattering seeds on the ground.
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The first commercial true steam engine using a piston was developed by Thomas Newcomen and was used in 1712 for pumping in a mine.
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John Kay was the inventor of the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. The flying shuttle was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving. It allowed a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics, and it could be mechanized, allowing for automatic machine looms.
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A period of time with a further transition from a living form of agriculture into a more advanced and more productive form of agriculture.
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The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history; almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way.
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In 1764, a British carpenter and weaver named James Hargreaves invented an improved spinning jenny, a hand-powered multiple spinning machine that was the first machine to improve upon the spinning wheel by making it possible to spin more than one ball of yarn or thread.
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The establishment of factories by other European powers along the trade routes explored by Portugal and Spain started in the 17th century, first by the Dutch and then by the English.
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The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
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A power loom is a mechanised loom powered by a line shaft. The first power loom was designed in 1784 by Edmund Cartwright and first built in 1785. It was refined over the next 47 years until a design by Kenworthy and Bullough made the operation completely automatic. This was known as the Lancashire Loom.
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In 1770 Captain James Cook landed in Botany Bay, home of the Eora people, and claimed possession of the East Coast of Australia for Britain under the doctrine of 'terra nullius'.
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The modern history of Sydney began with the arrival of a First Fleet of British ships in 1788 and the foundation of a penal colony by Great Britain.
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A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. It was invented by Eli Whitney.
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Interchangeable parts are parts (components) that are, for practical purposes, identical. Also designed by Eli Whitley.
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The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who protested against newly developed labour-saving machinery from 1811 to 1817.
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The Luddites revolution ends as the industrial revolution progresses.
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The power mill was a vital turning point in the inventions of the industrial revolution
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In Ireland, the Great Famine (Irish: an Gorta Mór) was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852.[1] It is sometimes referred to, mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine because one-third of the population was then solely reliant on this cheap crop for a number of historical reasons.
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The industrial revolution was a period which gave birth to many positive and negative changes about the world that still affect us to this day. Positives would include the advancement of many forms of technology and invention, and a negative could be pollution.
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even though this is when the great famine ended, it took a lot longer for Ireland to recover as a nation, due to the death toll, social, economic and enviromental effects.
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The thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery, was passed by the Senate in April 1864, and by the House of Representatives in January 1865.[
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the agricultrual revolution changed the way people farmed and ate forver- it changed the transportation of goods, the mass production and the accessibility of food for everyone.
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The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia formed one nation. They kept the systems of government (and the bicameral legislatures) that they had developed as separate colonies, but they also agreed to have a federal government that was responsible for matters concerning the whole nation. When the Constitution of Australia came into force, on 1 Janu
