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The Flying Shuttle was invented by John Kay
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The Spinning Wheel made for weaving was invented by James Hargreaves
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James Watt made an efficent way for steam engines to work
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The Water Frame was invented my Richard Arkwright.
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Adam Smith wrote his book The Wealth of Nations
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The Spinning Mule was invented by Samuel Crompton
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Jeremy Bentham, John Mill, and Robert Owen
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Moses Brown starts first factory in America
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Introduced the philosophy of utilitarianism
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The Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney
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Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith all wrote pieces on capitalism.
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Charles Fourier and Saint-Simon
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Unionization was reform to try to get better jobs and more money.
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Helped fight to free slaves in Britain
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Parliment passed a bill to end the slave trade in the British West Indies in 1807 and then the whole Britain empire in 1833.
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Wrote The Communist Manifesto
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Women started to get jobs in factories and running settlement houses for people in need.
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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The U.S abolished slavery when the Union won the Civil War.
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Corporations like Standard Oil run by John D. Rockefellar and Carnegie Steel Company run by Andrew Carnegie started to shoot up
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