Henry Bell- Steam-powered boat. Invented in 1812.
Eli Whitney- Cotton Gin. Invented on March 14, 1794.
James Watt- Steam Engine. Invented in 1765.
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Two of these laws are the Sugar Act and the Tea Act. The Sugar Act (1764) was a tax passed by the British to pay for the Seven Years War, called the French and Indian War in America. It taxed sugar and decreased taxes on molasses in British colonies in America and the West Indies. The British Parliament passed the Tea Act in May 1773. It reinforced a tea tax in the American colonies. The act also allowed the British East India Company to have a monopoly on the tea trade there. This meant that the American colonists were not allowed to buy tea from any other source.
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Sped up the cold war through technological contributions
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The cold war was war between the United States and the Soviet Union which was against communism.
The United States got worried when the Soviet Union launched their satellite Sputnik. The worried came in the realization that the Soviet Union could launch a nuclear weapon from space targeting the United States. The United States needed to catch up to the Soviet Union space efforts by building and launching their own satellite into space. The United States however got a shock when the Soviet Union launch Sputnik 2.
The Soviet Union was always ahead in the space race until the first man on the moon which the United States achieved.
The space race prompted both countries to exceed each other by building satellites and missiles. This accelerated the progress of the cold war and the process of technology development. The cold war was affected by the technological contributions made by both sides.
