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Jethro Tull invents the seed drill
The Seed Drill helps to increase crop yealds and makes it easier to plant crops -
John Kay invents flying shuttle
The flying shuttle increases cloth produciton and made clothes more available -
James Watt builds the first steam engine
The steam engine increases production and makes it possible to make cloth anywhere. Also it was such a good invention that we still use it today -
Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto explained that thre have always been social classes and that they should be broken down. It inspired people like Lenin and Mao Zedong. -
US Civil War ends; US experiences technological boom
Since the war was over and it was safe to go to America, Europeans came to America bringing ideas from Europe. -
Germany becomes dominant industrial power in Europe
Germany rises to industrial power because they have coal rich valleys, imported enginers from england and they had good railroads to trasport goods around -
British Unions win right to strike
With the right to strike against companies, workers were able to gain better working conditions, more rigthts, and better treatment
