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The first explorers that found Australia
A lot of explorers found different parts of Australia. Most of them were Dutch explorers. Abel Tasman discovered Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga, and the Fiji Islands. William Dampier was the first Dutch to explore different parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. -
Industrial revolution
The industrial revolution was a time of noxious fumes and machines. Britain was so desperate for workers because they were suffocating from the fumes. They needed more workers so desperately that they used children to operate machines. -
Steam engine
Thomas Newcomen invents the first steam engine. It was very useful during the Industrial revolution. The idea of using steam to make machines go will be important to the Industrial Revolution -
Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves, a British carpenter and weaver, invented the spinning jenny in 1764. The machine spins more than one ball of yarn or thread at a time, making it easier and faster to make cloth. -
Jails and crimes
In Britain there was a high unemployment of people and that lead to people being poor and having no money and that lead to people stealing and pick pocketing and then that made the prisons over flow with prisoners and the only place for them to go was New Holland -
Captain Cook
Captain Cook is a Dutch explorer that found and mapped Australia. Captain Cook named Australia Terra Nullius that means no one belonged to it, but James Cook did not know that it was inhabited by aborigines -
The first fleet
Dutch explorers found different parts of Australia but James Cook mapped all of Australia, then Captain Arthur Phillip got ahold of it and sailed there.William Dampier was the first Dutch to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. Wikipedia -
American civil war
The American shook Britain and the prisons. America won the war and agreed that they were their own country and not ruled by Britain. Beirain needed to find a new place to transfer their prisoners so they chose New holland and make a new colony -
telegraph
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph, which allowed messages to be sent quickly over a wire. By 1860, telegraph wires stretch from the east coast of the United States west of the Mississippi River.
