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Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill led the utilitarian movement. -
Flying Shuttle invented
John Kay invents Flying Shuttle -
Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves invents Spinning Jenny -
Watt improves Steam Engine
James Watt figures out how to make the steam engine work faster and more effiecently while burning less fuel. -
Water Frame
Richard Arkwright invents water frame -
Capitalism
Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus inspired the capitalist reform -
Spinning Mule invented
Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule -
Power Loom invented
Edmund Cartwright invents power loom -
Cotton gin
Eli Whitney invents cotton gin -
William Cockerill
smuggled secret plans for building machinery to Belgium, which led to his son, John Cockerill, building an enterprise in Belgium -
Socialism
French reformers, Charles Fourier Saint-Simon introduced socialism -
Muhammad Ali
reformed Egypt's government and improved communications by industrialization. -
Stephenson
George Stephenson begins work on first railroad line. -
Abolition of Slavery
Slavery in the British Empire was abolished in 1833. -
Child Labor Reform
Parliament passed the Factory Act of 1833, which made it illegal to hire children under nine years old. -
Communism
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and the Communist Manifesto -
U.S. Reform
Women's rights movements began in the U.S. as early as 1848. -
John D. Rockefeller
founded corporation, Standard Oil -
Andrew Carnegie
founded the Carnegie Steel Company -
Women Fight for Reform
The International Council for Women was founded in 1888 by women activisits around the world.
