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Seed Drill
Jethro Tull -
Flying Shuttle
John Kay -
Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves -
James Watt
Thought of a way to make the steam engine work faster and more efficiently while burning less fuel. -
Water Frame
Richard Arkwright -
Matthew Boulton
An entrepreneur who encouraged and paid James Watt to build better steam engines. -
Spinning Mule
Samuel Crompton -
Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham introduced this philosophy and wrote his most influential works in the late 1700's. -
Power Loom
Edmund Cartwrights -
Samuel Slater
Emigrated to the United States and brought over (in his memory) the blueprints to creating the spinning machine. -
Eli Whitney
American inventor who invented the cotton gin to speed up the amount of cotton to be cleaned. -
Combination Act
Outlawed unions and strikes.
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Spinners
More and more women began working as spinners in the factories, because they seen it as a way to make more money than chores around the house. -
Robert Fulton
Made the first successful trip in New York's Hudson River with the steam boat -
Francis Cabot Lowell
Revolutionalized the American tetile industry along with four other investors. -
Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
David Ricardo wrote this book in order to promote capitalism. -
Socialism
Another way to govern, this way for the welfare of all. Where all factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of the people. -
Slavery Abolished in England
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Wrote "Mary Barton" which was a fiction story about a family in Manchester's slum, and was and accurate potrayal or urban life at the time. -
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx wrote this inorder to promote communism,
