Greensboro Grasshoppers. The Greensboro Grasshoppers are a minor league baseball team in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. They are a Class A team in the South Atlantic League, and have been a farm team of the Miami Marlins since 2003. The Grasshoppers play home games at First National Bank Field (formerly First Horizon Park and NewBridge Bank Park), which opened in 2005 and seats 7,499 fans.
Arguably the most important role textiles played in the Industrial Revolution were that they were one of the main items churned out in the factories, since they lent themselves to this type of production and were in high demand. Comments.
Starting in the 1790s, slave owners began creating a huge cotton and slavery complex on the newest frontiers of the young United States. Cotton soon became the world's most important market commodity -- the Big Oil of the 19th century -- and the work of slaves like William was driving the industrial revolution.