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Victorian Era

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  • James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny

  • James Watt patents his improved steam engine design, enabling mechanization

  • Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom for weaving

  • Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin

  • Health and Morals of Apprentices Act, first law limiting child labor

  • Cotton Mills and Factories Acts, set minimum age of 9 and maximum workday of 12 hours

  • Great Reform Act extended voting rights to the middle class

  • Factory Act prohibited employment of children under 9

  • Slavery Abolition Act ended slavery in British colonies

  • Poor Law Amendment Act (New Poor Law) established workhouses with intentionally harsh conditions to deter relief claims

  • Factory Act made women and children work no more than 12 hours per day

  • Repeal of the Corn Laws, which had imposed tariffs on grain imports

  • Ten Hour Act limited workday to 10 hours for women and children

  • Elementary Education Act provided compulsory, free basic schooling

  • Factories Act consolidated labor laws, prohibited child labor under 10

  • Education Act , Provision of meals

  • Poor Law institutions like workhouses abolished, modern social assistance system introduced

  • Granted women same voting rights as men