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Thomas Savery invents the steam engine. This will power machines and railroad engines.
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Jethro Tull invented the seed drill in 1701. This allowed for even spacing and depth of seeds, causing crop production to rise dramatically.
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Invented Utilitarianism. It's the belief that people and institutions should be judged and applied based on their usefulness.
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John Kay invented the flying shuttle in 1733 to allow a weaver to double their output by moving back and forth with yawn in between.
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Brought about by Jeremy Bentham. "The greatest good for the greatest amount of people." People and institutions are judged based on their usefulness. John stuart Mill advanced Bentham's ideas.
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Improved the steam engine to allow it to be powerful enough to run machines.
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Adam smith was the main founder of this in his book Wealth of Nations. Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo supported his ideas. People invest in business in order to make a profit in their own self interest
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Inventor of Capitalism. Wrote the Wealth of Nations
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James Hargreaves invention allowed spinners and weavers to do 8 peices of thread at once. Profits skyrocketed.
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British engineer that emigrated to the US and brought plans to build a spinning machine.
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Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin, cleaning cotton faster. Cotton production in the US went crazy. South became more dependent on slaves.
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Robert Fulton invents the steam boat. Boats can now travel fast up rivers!
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Paved the way for large textile industry growth in the US. (Lowell, Mass)
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Completed the first railroad line!
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Parliament ends slavery in the British Empire due to its economic and moral consequences. William Wilberforce was the primary motivater in England.
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Charles Fourier and Saint-Simon are two french philosophers that believed the government should control business and the market to make it fair.
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With the industrial revolution in full swing, women began rising up to combat unequality at home and the workplace. This will eventually lead to the International Council of Women and many famous activists. Jane Addams, for example, set up settlement houses for the poor.
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Communism, a form of complete socialism is founded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels when they wrote The Communist Manifesto. They believed that Capitalism would crumble and the poor revolt against the rich, resulting in a classless society.
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Horace Mann of Massachusetts begins convincing the state and federal governments to provide free schooling for children in order to give them an education.
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After the Southern states in the United states break off and rebell to keep slavery, the war finally ends with the Union being the victor. Slavery effectively ends.
