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Jethro Tull
He invented the seed drill which allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths. -
John Kay
He invented the flying shuttle which doubled the work a weaver could do in a day. -
James Watt
He figured out how to make a steam engine work faster and more efficiently. -
Samuel Crompton
He combined the spinning jenny and the water frame to produce the spinning mule. -
Thomas Malthus
He wrote an essay called "An Essay on the Principle of population" which said that population tended to increase more rapidly than the food supply. -
William Cockerill
He illegally made his way into Belgium and carried in secret plans for spinning machines. His son eventually built an enormous industrial enterprise. -
War of 1812
Britain blockaded the United States to keep it from engaging in international trade. It forced the united states to us its own resources to develop independaent industries. -
Francis Cabot Lowell
Him and four other investors mechanized every stage in the manufacture of cloth. -
David Ricardo
He wrote "Principles of Political economy and Taxation. He beleived wages would be forced down as population increased. -
Lowell, Massachusetts
By the late 1820s it had become a booming manufacturing town and a model for other towns like it. -
New Harmony
A community founded by Robert Owen that was intended to be a utopia. It only lasted three years. -
Rocket
Trials were held to choose the best locomotive for us on the new line in England. None could compare to George Stephenson's Rocket. -
Railways in England
Liverpool to Manchester Railway opens officialy. It was an immediate succses. -
Alexis de Tocqueville
The French Writer cotrasted the brutal conditions in Merican prisons to the extended liberty of american society. -
Britain abolishes slavery
Williams Wilberforce led the fight for abolition until slavery was abolished in 1833. -
Factory act of 1833
The act passed by parliment made it illegal to hire children under 9 years old. Children 9 - 12 could only work 8 hours a day and yong people form 13 to 17 could not work more than 12 hours. -
Samuel B. Morse
a New england painter who first sent electical signals over telegraph. -
Ten hours act of 1847
This act limited the workday to ten hours for women and children who worked in factories. -
Womans Rights in the United States
Movement for Womens rights began in the United states as early as 1848. -
The comunist manifesto
Karl Marx publishes the comunist manifesto in 1848. It talks about how capitalism will implode on itself and produce communism. It caused a few uprisings in europe that were put down eventually. -
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Public school systems
During this time period public school systems started to become available in the US and Western Europe. -
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Standard oil - Carnagie Steel
Large corporations like Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel Company sprang up in the late 1800s. They wanted to control every aspect of their industry. -
US Civil War ends
Union wins Civil war and slavery is abolished in the US. -
National child labor committee
The committee was organized to end child labor and argued that child labor lowered wages for all workers. -
US supreme court
They rejected the child labor law, ruling that it interferred with states' rights to regulate labor.