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  • Flying Shuttle

    Flying Shuttle

    The Flying Shuttle was invented by John Kay
  • Spinning Wheel

    Spinning Wheel

    The Spinning Wheel made for weaving was invented by James Hargreaves
  • Efficent Steam Engine

    Efficent Steam Engine

    James Watt made an efficent way for steam engines to work
  • Water Frame

    Water Frame

    The Water Frame was invented my Richard Arkwright.
  • Adam Smith

    Adam Smith

    Adam Smith wrote his book The Wealth of Nations
  • Spinning Mule

    Spinning Mule

    The Spinning Mule was invented by Samuel Crompton
  • Utilitarianism

    Utilitarianism

    Jeremy Bentham, John Mill, and Robert Owen
  • First American Factory

    First American Factory

    Moses Brown starts first factory in America
  • Jeremy Bentham

    Jeremy Bentham

    Introduced the philosophy of utilitarianism
  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin

    The Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney
  • Capitalism

    Capitalism

    Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith all wrote pieces on capitalism.
  • Socialism

    Socialism

    Charles Fourier and Saint-Simon
  • Reform

    Reform

    Unionization was reform to try to get better jobs and more money.
  • William Wilberforce

    William Wilberforce

    Helped fight to free slaves in Britain
  • Abolishment of Slavery

    Abolishment of Slavery

    Parliment passed a bill to end the slave trade in the British West Indies in 1807 and then the whole Britain empire in 1833.
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx

    Wrote The Communist Manifesto
  • Women

    Women

    Women started to get jobs in factories and running settlement houses for people in need.
  • Communism

    Communism

    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • U.S

    U.S

    The U.S abolished slavery when the Union won the Civil War.
  • Corporations

    Corporations

    Corporations like Standard Oil run by John D. Rockefellar and Carnegie Steel Company run by Andrew Carnegie started to shoot up