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Flying Shuttle
Invented by John Kay. -
Water Frame
Invented by Richard Arkwright. -
Spining Jenny
Invented by James Hargreaves. -
First reliable Steam Engine
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Spinning Mule
Invented by Samuel Crompton. -
Adam Smith
A professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He wrote The Weath of Nations. -
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system in which money is invested in business wentures with the goal of mkaing profit. Adam Smith wrote a book named The Wealth of Nations about a free economy or free markets. -
United States gains Independence.
The Unites States Colonies gained Independence from England. -
Jeremy Bentham
Introduced works in the philosophy of utilitarianism. -
Utilitarianism
Utilitarism was introduced by an Engish philosophy named Jeremy Bentham. Bentham wrote a book in 1789, in there he agrued about how poeple should judge ideas, institutions and actions based on the basis of their utility or usefulness. He thought that governemtn should try to promote the greatest good for the greatest number of people. -
Cotton Gin
Invented by Eli Whitney. -
Socialism
Socialism was when the governments were advised to leave business's alone, other theorists believed that governments should intervene. -
Robert Owen
He was a British factory worker and he improved working conditions for his employees. -
Abolition of Slavery
William Wilberforce was a member of Parliament that led the fight of the abolitioning of slavery . Britian finally abolished slavery in its empire in 1833. -
The Ten Housr Act of 1847
This limited the workday to ten hours for women and children who worked in factories. -
Karl Marx
He published The Communist Manifesto. He also introduced the world to a radical type of socialism called Marxism. -
John Stuart Mill
He was a philosopher and economist and he worte Principles of Political Economy. -
Jane Addams
Sha wanted to improve lives for the poor and she founded a settlement house. -
Women Rights
The Industrial Revolution gave women a bunch of mixed feelings. Some felt as though they needed to get a job and earn money for their family and others felt that they still need to stay home to spin cotton thread because they only made one-third as much money as men. -
Communism/Marxism
Communism/Marxism was introduced to the world by Karl Marx. He and Friedrich Engels wrote a 23 page pamphlet named The Communist Manifesto. In this pamphlet the two talked about how the human societies have always been divided into warring classes. Marx and Engles both believed that teh Industrial Revolution had enriched the wealthy and impoverished the poor.
