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The flying shuttle
Invented by John Kay -
The spinning jenny
Invented by James Hargreaves -
James Watt
He figured out how to make the steam engine run faster and more efficiently while burning less coal. -
Laissez-faire Economics
Adam Smith writes The Wealth of Nations, in which he defends the idea of a free economy. -
Eli Whitney
Invented the cotton gin which multiplyed the amount of cotton that could be cleaned. -
Capitalism
Thomas Malthus, the founder of capitalism, wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population in which he argued that the population tended to increase more rapidly than the food supply. -
William Cockerill
He was a carpenter from Britain, who carried secret plans for building spinning machinery to Belgium -
War of 1812
Britain blockaded the United States to prevent them from participating in international trade -
Francis Cabot Lowell
He and four others revolutionized the textile industry when they mechanized every step in the manufacture of cloth. -
George Stephenson
In 1821 he began working on the world's first railroad -
Robert Owen
He founded a community in New Harmony, Indiana which was intended to be a utopia. -
The reaper
Invented by Cyrus McCormick -
William Wilberforce
Helped abolish slavery in Britian -
Factory Act of 1833
This law made it illegal to hire children under the age of 9 and limited the work day of children from 9-12 to 8 hours. -
The Morse Code
Invented by Samuel F. B. Morse -
Communism
Karl Marx, the founder of Communism, and Friedrich Engels published the Communist Manifesto in 1848. This book caused many revolts and uprisings. -
The sewing machine
Invented by I.M. Singer -
Unionization
By 1875, British trade unions had the right to strike and picket peacefully. -
The telephone
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell -
International Council for Women
Delegated and observers from 27 countries attended the council
