Those years mark the beginning of the textile industry in the United States. In the year 1790 the first cotton mill was installed, the first machine was brought by an English immigrant and entrepreneur called Samuel Slater, he started in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. This event is seen as the start of the Industrial Revolution in the USA.
An effect of the discovery of the New World in the late fifteenth century was a global exchange of plant life as different plants were transported to America where they thriwed, but different plants were also transported back to Europe and thriwed there as well.
