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Industrial Revolution starts mid 1700s
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Richard Arkwright invents Waterframe
Water Frame could produce dozens of cotton threads at the same time. It loawered the cost of cotton and increased textile production. -
Slater brings textile machine invention to US
illegally, he brought his memorized designes of machines to be successful in the United States. -
First Steam Powered Mill in G.B
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Slater opened first mill
along with SMith Brown and William Almy, made first mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. -
Eli Whitney invents cotton GIn
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France ends slavery
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Eli Witney invented Interchangable Parts
he comes up with this useful idea to help make and repair guns so that they are symetrically identical, allowing mass productions of specific parts, that can be later assembled at huge levels. -
Robert Fulton tests his first SB design
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Clermont-FIrst COmmercially Successful Steamboat
sparked intrest in the public -
Parliment bans slave trade in British Empire
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Congress ban on slave import takes effect
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War of 1812 starts
use of interchangable parts helped greatly -
War of 1812 ends
US returned to free trade -
Gibbons v. Ogden reaches Supreme Court
Court reinforced the federal government's authority to regulate trade between the states by ending monopolistic control over waterways in several states. (1819 odgen was angry that trade boats were operating on private waters) -
Tom Thumb becomes first locomotive to carry passengers in the US
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Cyrus McCormick invents Mech. Reaper
quickly and efficiently cut down wheat. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
gives fear of further rebellions in South over slaves. -
John Deere- Steel Plow INvention
after observing dificulty plowing in the hard west soil -
Sirius-first ship to cross Atlantic through steam power
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Federal Government employees now have 10-hour workdays
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Sarah Bagley is appointed secretary of the New England Working Men's Association
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London's "Crystal Palace" displays inventions
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