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John Kay invents the flying shuttle. It is a boat-shaped piece of wood with yarn attached that sped back and forth on wheels, It doubled the work a weaver could do.
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James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny. It was a spinning wheel that allowed a weaver to make eight threads at a time.
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Richard Arkwright invents the water frame. It used a wheel powered by a stream of water used to power machines.
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Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations defending the idea of a free economy and a free market, establishing the capitalism economic system.
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Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule. It combined the spinning jenny and the water frame. It made stronger, finer, and more consistent thread run by water power.
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Samuel Slater memorized the British spinning machine and remade it for the U.S.
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Moses Brown opens a factory to mass produce thread outside of Britian.
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Jeremy Bentham writes The Principals of International Law, establishing the utilitarian economic system.
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Richard Trevithick invents the stean engine, funded by Samuel Homfray. It gave people a new method of transportation that was faster and could carry more weight than the previous methods.
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The War of 1812 begins and Britian blockades the United States, forcing them to develop its own independent industries and industrializes the conutry.
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William Wilberforce fights for the rights of slaves and Britian abolishes it with the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.
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Morse Code was invented by Samuel F.B. Morse. It gave a language that could be used when comunicating by sound or light.
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The first of many conventions of women fighting for equal rights.
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With this bill, women and children were limited to work for no more than 10 hours a day.
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A fiction book about the life of living in a Manchester slum, with an accurate portrayal of the urban life at the time.
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels write The Communist Manifesto, establishing the communist economic system.
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels write The Communist Manifesto, These ideas influenced reformers to take a similar approach and founded socialism.
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John D. Rockefeller opens his first oil company, leading to one of the biggest distributers of oil durring the Industrial Revolution.
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Andrew Carnegie opens his first steel industry, leading to one of the biggest steel providers of the Industrial Revolution.
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Jane Addams founds a series of facilities for working class women in Chicago.
