The invention of the steam engine in the late 1700s and its widespread use beginning in the early 1800s triggered the industrial revolution. Steam engine is an engine that uses steam as its working fluid to perform mechanical work. James Watt, a Scottish engineer patented the steam engine in 1781.
In 1628, a group of Puritans formed<span> the New England Company. The King of England gave them a charter to make a settlement along the </span>Massachusetts Bay<span>. The first group of Puritan settlers was led by John Endecott. They began the settlement Salem, </span>Massachusetts<span>.</span>
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The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, named after Christopher Columbus, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, the Old World, and West Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. The impact was most severe in the Caribbean, where by 1600 Native American populations on most islands had plummeted by more than 99 percent. Across the Americas, populations fell by 50 percent to 95 percent by 1650. The disease component of the Columbian Exchange was decidedly one-sided.
